Tag: OpenSource

All the articles with the tag "OpenSource".

• Free or Pro? A Decision Framework | The Foundation Papers, Part 13

  25 Jul, 2026

  Nine posts in, the question I actually get isn't 'is this good.' It's 'do I need the paid part, or am I fine with the free one.' Here's the honest answer, not the sales answer.

• Why Not Just Use Laravel's Defaults? | The Foundation Papers, Part 11

  23 Jul, 2026

  The most honest objection I get isn't about the price. It's this: Laravel already gives me controllers, requests, resources, and exceptions. Why do I need a package to tell me how to use the ones I already have?

• The Incident That Made Me Charge For This. | The Foundation Papers, Part 7

  19 Jul, 2026

  The architecture is free and stays free. But I've watched enough open source maintainers burn out maintaining something for free that I decided, before this ever shipped, not to become one of them.

• What Breaks When Your Server Doesn't Restart. | The Foundation Papers, Part 6

  18 Jul, 2026

  PHP-FPM forgives you in a way Octane doesn't. It gave every request a clean process — Octane keeps the process alive, and every leftover assumption from the PHP-FPM era turns into a live bug.