The tools we build for ourselves, the patterns that survive production, and the unglamorous decisions behind software people actually rely on.
Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, and Livewire move fast. Running the TALL stack in production asks for a few deliberate decisions.
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.
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.