Field Notes

Notes from the part users never see, until it breaks.

Writing on Laravel architecture, passkeys, MCP tooling, security tradeoffs, and the backend decisions that look obvious only after someone has already paid the debugging tax.

Authentication Architecture

Building Passkey Authentication in Laravel: The Engineering Challenges We Had to Solve

Security tradeoffs, WebAuthn implementation detail, and the shape of real passwordless authentication work in Laravel.

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Architecture Discipline

Building a Laravel MCP Server Without Letting the Architecture Drift

Protocol design, tool boundaries, and the practical work of keeping AI-assisted backend tooling maintainable.

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