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Pete Bishop
I build solutions with Laravel, PHP, and modern web technologies.
Me!
Technologies I use
A few of the tools and technologies I reach for often.
Recent articles
I write about life as a developer and the tools I use.
Laravel Job Batches Are Cooler Than You Think
Stop refreshing Horizon like it's your ex's Instagram—make your background jobs actually call you back
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Living with ADHD
A Chaotic Love Letter to My Brain
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When Every Second Counts: The Day CPR Saved Mark's Life
The day I helped saved a life. Learn CPR. Next time, it could be you!
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Roles
About me
I’m a backend-leaning
Laravel engineer
who loves designing clear, well-versioned APIs and building
robust
services that integrate cleanly with third‑party platforms. My
day‑to‑day is providing
Technical Support
to customers and our internal teams. I spend my personal time with
family and architecting maintainable domains, writing expressive
Eloquent
, and shaping queues, jobs, and events that keep systems reliable
and fast.
I spend a lot of time on integrations—auth flows, webhooks, and
syncing data with providers like Stripe, GitHub, Slack, and
payment/notification gateways—prioritizing idempotency,
observability, and great error handling. I care deeply about test
coverage (
Pest
) and developer ergonomics (Pint, zero‑friction DX) so teams can
move quickly without surprises.
Most of all, I’m passionate about
Customer Experience
. Technology should feel invisible: fast, reliable, and thoughtful.
I’m a family man—married with four children and one on the way—and
that perspective shapes how I build: pragmatic, dependable software
that respects people’s time.
Projects I’ve worked on
A few of the projects that I’ve had a chance to play with.
