A blog by Alberto Arena

Senior software engineer.

I build and maintain developer tooling for Laravel and event sourcing, including the Laravel Event Sourcing Generator (10k+ downloads).

Open to freelance, consulting, and long-term remote collaborations.

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Jun 28, 2026 AI 6 min read

CLAUDE.md is RAM, not disk

A simple memory model for structuring docs in a Claude Code project, plus a Laravel starter repo you can copy.

Jun 18, 2026 Laravel 3 min read

What if every Filament write went through an aggregate?

A Filament plugin that routes every create, edit, and delete through your domain aggregates, without giving up the admin panel you already love.

Jul 10, 2026 AI 5 min read

Claude's Working Memory Is Smaller Than You Think

Anthropic's J-space research shows Claude's internal reasoning workspace is small. Here's what that changes about how I sequence prompts when building a feature.

Jul 6, 2026 AWS 6 min read

Beyond the Bastion: Secure Artisan Command Execution with AWS Systems Manager

When IT blocks SSH for compliance, your manual Artisan operations go dark. Here is how AWS Systems Manager Run Command replaces the bastion host with an IAM-authenticated, CloudTrail-audited alternative, and the engineering decisions behind building a reusable toolkit around it.

Jun 30, 2026 Open Source 2 min read

CLAUDE.md is RAM, not disk

What if every Filament write went through an aggregate?

Claude's Working Memory Is Smaller Than You Think

Beyond the Bastion: Secure Artisan Command Execution with AWS Systems Manager

10,000 downloads

Your README Deserves Real Numbers

Stop Typing, Keep Going

Deploying Laravel to Netsons with GitHub Actions