About
I'm the co-owner of Spatie, where my colleagues and I maintain over 300 open source packages for PHP and Laravel. Those packages have been downloaded more than 2 billion times.
Whenever we stumble upon a problem that we can solve in a clean way, we extract our solution so other developers can use it. On this blog, I write about what I learn along the way.
Side projects
Together with my friend Mattias, I run Oh Dear, a website monitoring service. It can notify you when your site is down, when it contains broken links, when it finds mixed content, and much more. Try it out!
Outside of programming, I'm passionate about music. I record music in Ableton and have released a couple of EPs. You can listen to them on Spotify or Apple Music.
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Some of my recent original articles to get you started.
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