May 14, 2026
Programmatically Modernizing 20-Year-Old Videos
A retrospective on rescuing 21 anime music videos I made in high school — through RealMedia, AI upscalers, and one stubborn YouTube audio glitch that took days to diagnose.
Software engineer by day, pro wrestling super nerd by night. I work remotely from Tampa, FL with a focus on building clean, well-tested web applications in PHP and Laravel.
Away from the keyboard I'm an anime and tokusatsu fan, Star Trek nerd, and slowly working my way through all 62 of the original Goosebumps books.
Recent Posts
June 5, 2020
Using Laravel Assertions in Codeception
If you're using Codeception as a testing framework for your Laravel app, you may find yourself wanting to use some of the familiar Laravel testing assertions. In this article, we'll dive into how to do exactly that.
May 5, 2020
Implicit Route Model Binding
Implicit route model binding was introduced way back in 2015 with Laravel 5.2, however all these years later I still find apps out in the wild doing things the hard way.
Other Links
My herd of elePHPants
My collection of elePHPants — the official PHP mascot in plush form.
My AMV channel
Anime music videos I made between 2002 and 2008, rescued from RealMedia files and restored for YouTube.
My Credly profile
Where the college credits I've been quietly chipping away at land.