Occasional writing on things I build and the decisions behind them

How I rebuilt the Entity-Meta pattern into a Laravel package - and what it taught me about vertical scaling, pivot tables, and building for small business.

How I implemented the WordPress-style entity-meta database pattern in a Laravel package - covering pivot tables for many-to-many relationships, reusable traits, and why this architecture lets small business applications scale vertically before ever needing distributed complexity.

Lessons from ERP templates, modules, deployment work, and client-specific customization.

What repeated Dolibarr customization work taught me about how business software actually succeeds: not through abstract elegance alone, but through templates, modules, deployment discipline, and careful adaptation to how a company already operates.