A blog by Alberto Arena

Building Cogway's interactive explainers for nested transactions and eager loading forced an exactness that years of using them never did.

Laravel ERD is one name for three different machines: migrations replayed, models reflected, or the live database read.

A structural census of fifteen real Laravel codebases: what their schemas look like, how connected they are, and how much of it was never really a choice.

A schema viewer that always read a live database connection was quietly relying on that connection being trustworthy.

AI slop isn't usually a bad model, it's bad context.

Laravel Truss 1.8 turns your schema export into grounding context for a coding agent: annotations, focused and compact exports, and an optional read-only MCP server.

Anthropic says auto mode catches 89% of dangerous commands against 13.6% for human reviewers, and still calls it not risk-free.

I built a deterministic Laravel event-sourcing generator, then a Claude Code skill that does the same job through a design conversation.

Laravel Truss 1.6 adds theming to match the app it's embedded in, and truss:export to generate deterministic schema files your CI can gate on.

Agentic development didn't make us prompt engineers.

Laravel Truss 1.5 adds truss:doctor: a deterministic, structure-only review of your database schema, thirteen rules deep, that can fail your CI build.

Skills look like the disk tier of the CLAUDE.md memory model.

A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app's actual database schema, safe to run in production.

Anthropic added routines to Claude Code: cloud-hosted automations triggered by a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event.

Anthropic's J-space research shows Claude's internal reasoning workspace is small.

When IT blocks SSH for compliance, your manual Artisan operations go dark.

laravel-event-sourcing-generator just crossed 10,000 downloads on Packagist.

Why a growing CLAUDE.md makes Claude Code worse, and a simple RAM/disk model for structuring your docs instead, plus a Laravel starter repo you can copy.

A Filament plugin that routes every create, edit, and delete through your domain aggregates, without giving up the admin panel you already love.

traffic-badge is a GitHub Action that pulls live view and clone counts from the official GitHub API and pins them as SVG badges directly in your README.

Claude Code and Codex added a /goal command: an autonomous loop alternative to typing keep going every turn.

I built a Laravel package to deploy to Netsons shared hosting via GitHub Actions, supporting both FTP and git clone strategies.

Environment files drift out of sync silently. envaudit catches what you miss.

A Claude Code skill for Spatie Laravel event sourcing: it designs your domain in conversation, then generates aggregates, events, and projectors.

AI coding agents hallucinate: they invent APIs, fabricate packages, and write confident, wrong code.

A Git repository analysis tool that converts version control history into quality metrics.

I migrated my blog from Gatsby to Astro.

A Laravel command that generates a domain using Spatie event sourcing.

A React learning exercise: building a React Calculator.

I moved my blog to Gatsby, a React-based open source framework.

My personal blog is back.

How to check if a variable is really an integer or a float in Javascript, and some considerations on data types.

Four reasons for which I decided to move my blog from WordPress to Jekyll.

How to implement a simple Javascript getter/setter than can be used with different libraries and frameworks.

A brief tutorial about how to install Store Kit module in Titanium Studio with gitTio.

Some interesting effects that can be implemented in pure CSS3.

An implementation of the Factory method pattern while maintaining a web-application developed in PHP and Zend Framework 1.