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Notes & projects
Occasional write-ups on Laravel, PHP and whatever side project I've got on the go.
22 July 2026
Helmr — group management, minus the admin headache
Helmr is a platform for running membership-based clubs and groups — website, member portal, app, CRM, billing and comms in one place. It started as a favour for a sailing club I help train people at, and it's now on version two.
Read more →20 July 2026
The birth of Waymarq!
I built a project tracker. Waymarq is a client-facing project management app — Kanban, Gantt, budgets, quotes and a support desk — with an entirely optional AI layer bolted on top, not baked in.
Read more →13 July 2026
Laravel Periscope — Telescope with a little more utility
Laravel Telescope is brilliant, but searching and filtering by date is basically impossible once you're generating millions of rows a day. So I built Laravel Periscope — an open-source companion package — and published it on Packagist.
Read more →This blog's older than it looks — there's a decade-plus of archived posts from the original site, mostly WordPress and Divi write-ups.