Notes from Kyrian Obikwelu's work with software, systems, and the questions that keep him digging.https://codewithkyrian.com/en-NGhttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/php-fibers-the-missing-piece-for-elegant-cooperative-multitasking/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/php-fibers-the-missing-piece-for-elegant-cooperative-multitasking/I explain how PHP Fibers helped me implement client communication in the official MCP SDK, then build a small task manager around the same idea.Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/a-practical-guide-to-laravels-contextual-attributes/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/a-practical-guide-to-laravels-contextual-attributes/A practical look at Laravel contextual attributes, with authentication and dependency-injection examples that keep controllers focused.Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/bypassing-ad-blockers-for-umami-analytics-in-laravel-applications/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/bypassing-ad-blockers-for-umami-analytics-in-laravel-applications/How I route Umami analytics through a Laravel app so common ad blockers do not discard the requests, with Nginx, Apache, and shared-hosting options.Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/building-a-background-removal-tool-with-laravel-and-transformersphp/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/building-a-background-removal-tool-with-laravel-and-transformersphp/A step-by-step build of a background-removal tool with Laravel, Livewire, and TransformersPHP, including progress updates and before-and-after image comparisons.Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/when-small-is-mighty-time-to-ditch-llms-for-smaller-ai-models/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/when-small-is-mighty-time-to-ditch-llms-for-smaller-ai-models/A case for choosing small, task-specific models when a large language model would be more than the job needs.Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/machine-learning-with-transformersphp-automatically-tagging-posts-in-laravel/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/machine-learning-with-transformersphp-automatically-tagging-posts-in-laravel/A Laravel example that uses TransformersPHP for zero-shot classification and automatically tags posts.Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/announcing-transformersphp-bring-machine-learning-magic-to-your-php-projects/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/announcing-transformersphp-bring-machine-learning-magic-to-your-php-projects/I introduced TransformersPHP, a PHP toolkit for running pre-trained transformer models for text generation, classification, summarization, and translation.Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/orbstack-what-docker-desktop-wishes-it-could-be/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/orbstack-what-docker-desktop-wishes-it-could-be/My notes on replacing Docker Desktop with OrbStack on macOS, including startup time, the CLI workflow, SSH forwarding, and local HTTPS.Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/inheritance-and-polymorphism-in-php-oop/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/inheritance-and-polymorphism-in-php-oop/The third article in my PHP OOP series, covering inheritance, polymorphism, covariance, and method overloading with concrete examples.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/understanding-classes-and-objects-in-php/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/understanding-classes-and-objects-in-php/The second article in my PHP OOP series, covering constructors, destructors, static members, visibility, and class constants.Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/introduction-to-oop-in-php/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/introduction-to-oop-in-php/The first article in my PHP OOP series, covering classes, objects, and the ideas behind object-oriented design, with a cake analogy along the way.Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-implement-retries-in-guzzlehttp/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-implement-retries-in-guzzlehttp/A small, focused guide to retrying Guzzle requests when a network call fails or a server returns a temporary error.Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-setup-the-ultimate-php-environment-with-docker/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-setup-the-ultimate-php-environment-with-docker/A Docker-based PHP development environment with MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Node.js, NPM, and Laravel-specific setup.Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/roachphp-mastering-web-scraping-with-php/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/roachphp-mastering-web-scraping-with-php/A hands-on introduction to web scraping in PHP with RoachPHP, DomCrawler, and Guzzle.Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-install-docker-in-wsl2-without-docker-desktop/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-install-docker-in-wsl2-without-docker-desktop/How to run Docker inside WSL2 without Docker Desktop, including systemd setup, installation, and the problems that tend to appear along the way.Mon, 04 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-install-wsl2-on-windows-1011/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/how-to-install-wsl2-on-windows-1011/How to install WSL2 on Windows 10 or 11 and get a Linux environment ready for development.Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://codewithkyrian.com/writing/demystifying-docker-a-beginners-guide-to-containerization/https://codewithkyrian.com/writing/demystifying-docker-a-beginners-guide-to-containerization/A beginner-friendly tour of Docker, from images and containers to the practical reasons to use them.Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT