I'm Clay
A Web Developer Who Loves
Laravel,Livewire,AlpineJS
and Tailwindcss


Published 9 months ago
For the second time in as many years, my wife entered the hospital for a "simple procedure" on her lungs. She's 0-2 for coming through simple procedures unscathed. Today was one week and two days following the procedure, and she was released from the hospital this afternoon...
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Published 11 months ago
This is another off-topic post, but it is very important to me. A lot of you chipped in last year and helped us through a very difficult time, so I feel like the occasional update is warranted.

Published 1 year ago
A quick, off-topic post on our recent visit to Mississippi to celebrate my mom and dad's 50th wedding anniversary, and my mom's retirement.

Published 1 year ago
Yeah I haven't written in a while, but life has been pretty crazy for the last year and a half.

Published 3 years ago
A summary of the current patterns, structure, and processes used while developing Laravel applications.

Published 4 years ago
I've tried to summarize the practices and patterns I use while developing Laravel applications. These are subject to change. Hopefully, I can follow up at least once per year, to track how my development practices evolve.

Published 5 years ago
My review of Matt Stauffer's upcoming book, Laravel: Up and Running.

Published 5 years ago
A quick summary of planned upcoming articles.