CTO @ Digitonic · Laravel engineer · Technical leader
Engineering, taught & leadership, practised — from the west coast of Scotland.
I'm Steven — Chief Technology Officer at Digitonic, where I build and lead teams shipping production Laravel for investor relations and iGaming. I've been writing PHP since the 5.1 days and Laravel since its early releases.
I write long-form, code-first deep-dives on Laravel, architecture, DDD, and the craft of leading software teams over at richdynamix.com — and I'm usually chasing a better golf handicap when I'm away from the keyboard.
- Site & writing → richdynamix.com
- Latest articles → richdynamix.com/articles
- What I'm doing now → richdynamix.com/now
I maintain a handful of packages and developer tools — full list on Packagist and across my repositories.
- arc — Production-ready, Docker-based development environment for Laravel.
- laravel-firebase — A small Laravel wrapper for the Firebase PHP SDK.
- chatbase-api — Chatbase API client built for Laravel.
- magestead — The Vagrant solution for Magento developers.
The newest deep-dives from richdynamix.com/articles (updated automatically):
- [The Widget That Forgets: Partitioned Cookies in PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-85-partitioned-cookies-chips-laravel)- [Stop Explaining Your Form in a Placeholder: Filament v5's Callout Component](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v5-callout-inline-guidance-forms-schemas)
- [wire:show and wire:text: The Livewire 4 Directives That Never Hit the Server](https://richdynamix.com/articles/livewire-4-wire-show-wire-text-client-side-directives)
- [Sort Users by Their Last Order Without an N+1: Eloquent Subquery Selects](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-eloquent-subquery-select-latest-related-row)
- [The Long URL That Breaks Your Table: Tailwind v4's wrap-anywhere vs wrap-break-word](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-wrap-anywhere-break-word-long-urls)
- [Stop Shipping Prompt Regressions: LLM Evals for the Laravel AI SDK with Pest 5](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-llm-evals-golden-dataset-pest-ci)
