Notes from the team on Laravel, PHP and the decisions behind the platform.
Every screen a Krodox customer signs in to is built with Flux, the component library from the Livewire team. Why we chose it over building our own, how the accent colour comes down to one token, and what it costs us.
6 min readKrodox builds and hosts websites for local businesses. A look at what it does for the owner, and the architecture underneath: roughly a dozen services that turn a form into live infrastructure.
4 min readHow to calculate the real cost per site when you host websites for other people: fixed versus marginal cost, the line items everyone forgets, and why static hosting and application hosting produce completely different curves.
9 min readMost sites need a dropdown, a toggle and a modal, not a framework. Alpine handles that in about 20 kB gzipped, and the discipline it imposes is the point.
4 min readLivewire 4 brings single-file components, islands, async actions and native view transitions. It also changes routing, wire:model behaviour and its own endpoint URLs.
4 min readStatamic 6 rebuilds the control panel on Vue 3 and Inertia, adds passkeys, and changes how globals and search are configured. A field report from upgrading this site.
4 min readLaravel 13 is a deliberately small upgrade with a large feature set: an AI SDK, vector search, JSON:API resources and attribute-driven configuration. The framework is the easy part.
4 min readEvery page of our old krodox.com site was a Markdown file in Git. No database, no database backups to worry about, and the full edit history came free.
3 min readSince October 2025, Krodox has sponsored the Miami Soccer Lay Kids Academy: kits, gear, and the academy website itself.
3 min readThe pipe operator, clone with, a built-in URI parser and #[\NoDiscard]. A tour of what PHP 8.5 actually added, with examples.
4 min readLast night in Miami, the launch of Tailwind CSS 4 brought together developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts from across the globe for an electrifying event.
2 min readProperty hooks, asymmetric visibility, a modern DOM API and new array functions. A tour of what PHP 8.4 actually added, with examples.
3 min readThis article will walk you through the differences between a repository and a service in Laravel, and show you how to use each of these patterns with code examples.
5 min readIn Laravel, there are different approaches to organizing code when interacting with models and business logic. Two common patterns are Actions and Repositories. Here’s a breakdown of each and how they compare:
3 min readStatamic is a powerful and flexible Content Management System (CMS) designed to simplify the process of building and managing websites. One of the most unique aspects of Statamic is that it does not rely on a traditional database like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
4 min readIn Laravel, Eloquent ORM provides a beautiful, simple ActiveRecord implementation for working with your database. One of its powerful features is managing relationships between models. This article will focus on the BelongsToMany relationship, which is used to define many-to-many relationships.
4 min readEloquent is used in Laravel for several key reasons that contribute to its popularity and effectiveness in application development.
5 min readCode style should not be a review comment. Here is the GitHub Actions workflow we use to run Laravel Pint on every push and commit the fixes back automatically.
3 min readA short review of the chapter "Our Goal: No Goals" from It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, and why it resonates with our team.
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