I build small, sturdy software.
and write about it plainly.

Hi, I’m Mike. I make developer tools, teach when I can, and keep notes here so future-me (and maybe you) doesn’t have to relearn the same lesson twice. Whether you write code for a living or have never opened a terminal, I try to make it make sense.

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Recent

Latest writing

• PHP2Shell: why I took every Laravel app offline, and why it was easy

  How I handled the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities across my Laravel applications: weighing business impact, taking PHP-FPM offline, patching server by server with Ploi, and what…

  22 Oct 2026

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  11 minutes

  devops laravel php security

• Why commits matter, and what you can do with them

  How Conventional Commits and release-please turned my commit history into automated versions and changelogs, and why scopes made the biggest difference.

  21 Oct 2026

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  7 minutes

  automation ci/cd git opinion tooling

• How Claude made my life easier by helping me build dot

  How pair programming with Claude Code helped me finally build dot, my portable dotfiles CLI, and what I had to keep an eye on.

  17 Sep 2026

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  7 minutes

  ai claude code dotfiles neovim tooling

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Selected

Things I’ve made

• dot

  2026

  A portable dotfiles CLI in pure zsh. Sets up a new laptop or server in one command, no sudo needed.

  CLI Dotfiles Linux macOS Neovim OSS zsh

• FlexFlow

  2025

  FlexFlow is a multi-platform desk booking and work availability app for hybrid teams, built with ASP.NET Core, Nuxt, PostgreSQL, Swift…

  ASP.NET Core Docker Kotlin Nuxt PostgreSQL School project Swift