Senior Software Engineer.https://albertoarena.it/https://albertoarena.it/posts/context-engineering-not-slop/https://albertoarena.it/posts/context-engineering-not-slop/AI slop isn't usually a bad model, it's bad context. Here's the discipline that prevents it, the failure modes behind it, and three checks you can actually run to enforce it.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/my-coding-agent-kept-inventing-columns/https://albertoarena.it/posts/my-coding-agent-kept-inventing-columns/Laravel Truss 1.8 turns your schema export into grounding context for a coding agent: annotations, focused and compact exports, and an optional read-only MCP server.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-code-auto-mode-still-needs-a-human/https://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-code-auto-mode-still-needs-a-human/Anthropic says auto mode catches 89% of dangerous commands against 13.6% for human reviewers, and still calls it not risk-free. The config, hooks, and review habits that keep it honest.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/generator-vs-ai-skill/https://albertoarena.it/posts/generator-vs-ai-skill/I built a deterministic Laravel event-sourcing generator, then a Claude Code skill that does the same job through a design conversation. Which one wins? Wrong question.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/gave-my-schema-viewer-your-app-colours/https://albertoarena.it/posts/gave-my-schema-viewer-your-app-colours/Laravel Truss 1.6 adds theming to match the app it's embedded in, and truss:export to generate deterministic schema files your CI can gate on.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/we-became-editors-in-chief/https://albertoarena.it/posts/we-became-editors-in-chief/Agentic development didn't make us prompt engineers. It made reviewing the job, and nobody built tooling yet for the real bottleneck: how long a human can stay sharp.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/the-schema-doctor-is-in/https://albertoarena.it/posts/the-schema-doctor-is-in/Laravel Truss 1.5 adds truss:doctor: a deterministic, structure-only review of your database schema, thirteen rules deep, that can fail your CI build.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-md-skills-are-not-disk/https://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-md-skills-are-not-disk/Skills look like the disk tier of the CLAUDE.md memory model. They are not. Here is the four-tier model that actually fits: RAM, path-scoped rules, skills, and disk.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-truss/https://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-truss/A live, zoomable ER diagram of your Laravel app's actual database schema, safe to run in production. Structure only, never data.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-code-routines-vs-goal-loop/https://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-code-routines-vs-goal-loop/Anthropic added routines to Claude Code: cloud-hosted automations triggered by a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. How they differ from /goal and /loop, and when to reach for each.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/claudes-working-memory-is-smaller-than-you-think/https://albertoarena.it/posts/claudes-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.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/beyond-the-bastion-aws-ssm-laravel-artisan/https://albertoarena.it/posts/beyond-the-bastion-aws-ssm-laravel-artisan/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.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/laravel-event-sourcing-generator-10k/https://albertoarena.it/posts/laravel-event-sourcing-generator-10k/laravel-event-sourcing-generator just crossed 10,000 downloads on Packagist. A short look back at how it started and where things have gone since.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-md-is-ram-not-disk/https://albertoarena.it/posts/claude-md-is-ram-not-disk/Why a growing CLAUDE.md makes Claude Code worse, and a simple RAM/disk model for structuring your docs instead, plus a Laravel starter repo you can copy.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-filament-event-sourcing/https://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-filament-event-sourcing/A Filament plugin that routes every create, edit, and delete through your domain aggregates, without giving up the admin panel you already love.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/traffic-badge-github-action/https://albertoarena.it/posts/traffic-badge-github-action/traffic-badge is a GitHub Action that pulls live view and clone counts from the official GitHub API and pins them as SVG badges directly in your README. No third-party servers, no guesses.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/goal-command-claude-code/https://albertoarena.it/posts/goal-command-claude-code/Claude Code and Codex added a /goal command: an autonomous loop alternative to typing keep going every turn. When /goal beats /loop, and when it does not.Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/laravel-netsons-deploy/https://albertoarena.it/posts/laravel-netsons-deploy/I built a Laravel package to deploy to Netsons shared hosting via GitHub Actions, supporting both FTP and git clone strategies.Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-envaudit/https://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-envaudit/Environment files drift out of sync silently. envaudit catches what you miss.Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/ai-laravel-event-sourcing/https://albertoarena.it/posts/ai-laravel-event-sourcing/A Claude Code skill for Spatie Laravel event sourcing: it designs your domain in conversation, then generates aggregates, events, and projectors.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/ai-hallucination-in-coding-agents/https://albertoarena.it/posts/ai-hallucination-in-coding-agents/AI coding agents hallucinate: they invent APIs, fabricate packages, and write confident, wrong code. Here is how to catch it before it reaches production.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-codemetry/https://albertoarena.it/posts/introducing-codemetry/A Git repository analysis tool that converts version control history into quality metrics.Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/moving-from-gatsby-to-astro/https://albertoarena.it/posts/moving-from-gatsby-to-astro/I migrated my blog from Gatsby to Astro. Here's why.Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/domain-using-spatie-event-sourcing/https://albertoarena.it/posts/domain-using-spatie-event-sourcing/A Laravel command that generates a domain using Spatie event sourcing.Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:13:00 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/my-react-calculator/https://albertoarena.it/posts/my-react-calculator/A React learning exercise: building a React Calculator.Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/finally-i-moved-to-gatsby/https://albertoarena.it/posts/finally-i-moved-to-gatsby/I moved my blog to Gatsby, a React-based open source framework.Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/i-am-back/https://albertoarena.it/posts/i-am-back/My personal blog is back.Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/is-it-really-an-integer/https://albertoarena.it/posts/is-it-really-an-integer/How to check if a variable is really an integer or a float in Javascript, and some considerations on data types.Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/i-moved-to-jekyll/https://albertoarena.it/posts/i-moved-to-jekyll/Four reasons for which I decided to move my blog from WordPress to Jekyll.Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/a-simple-javascript-gettersetter/https://albertoarena.it/posts/a-simple-javascript-gettersetter/How to implement a simple Javascript getter/setter than can be used with different libraries and frameworks.Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/installing-store-kit-in-titanium-studio/https://albertoarena.it/posts/installing-store-kit-in-titanium-studio/A brief tutorial about how to install Store Kit module in Titanium Studio with gitTio.Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/special-effects-in-css3/https://albertoarena.it/posts/special-effects-in-css3/Some interesting effects that can be implemented in pure CSS3.Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:12:03 GMThttps://albertoarena.it/posts/sharing-your-house-factory-method-pattern-can-help-you/https://albertoarena.it/posts/sharing-your-house-factory-method-pattern-can-help-you/An implementation of the Factory method pattern while maintaining a web-application developed in PHP and Zend Framework 1.Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:12:03 GMT