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Notes from the workshop

The tools we build for ourselves, the patterns that survive production, and the unglamorous decisions behind software people actually rely on.

Production

The TALL stack in production, with the trade-offs nobody writes down

Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, and Livewire move fast. Running the TALL stack in production asks for a few deliberate decisions.

Martin · · 8 min
Production

Turning HTML into a PDF is harder than it looks

A short tour of every HTML to PDF approach we tried, the ways each one failed in production, and why we ended up running the pipeline as a product for our clients.

Martin · · 5 min
Tooling

Why we don't open source every package, yet

We love open source and ship on it every day. Here is why we keep a few packages private for now, what that buys our clients, and why more will go public over time.

Martin · · 3 min