» whoami

I'm Daniel Coulbourne. I'm a programmer, primarily hanging out in the Laravel Community. Most of my work lives in the TALL stack (Tailwind, AlpineJS, Laravel, Livewire) and React, but I've shipped real code in Go, Rust, and Python too.

I cofounded Thunk with John Drexler. We help teams ship great products fast — and truly own them after. Writing code is easy; figuring out what to build, solving the real problem, and keeping a complex app healthy for years is the hard part. That's where we thrive.

» talks

A few talks I've given at Laracon and other conferences.

Verbs for Laravel

Laracon US · 2024

Introducing Verbs, a package that brings event sourcing to Laravel in a way that feels native to the framework.

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Flip the Switch Slowly

Laracon EU · 2024

How we used event sourcing to project the same data into both a legacy database and a new Laravel rewrite, so we could migrate users gradually instead of through one dramatic cutover.

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» podcasts

Shows I cohost.

No Plans To Merge

with Caleb Porzio

A podcast about software, the Laravel community, and whatever else we feel like getting into.

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Talking Businessly

with John Drexler

The nitty-gritty of running a small software agency — hiring, pricing, marketing, and trying to keep the lights on.

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» oss

A couple of open source projects I helped get off the ground.

Verbs

event sourcing for laravel

A Laravel package that makes event sourcing feel native — fire events, project them into your models, and replay history at will.

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Ziggy

laravel routes in javascript

Use your Laravel named routes in JavaScript. Caleb Porzio and I built Ziggy at Tighten — the community has carried it well past 40 million installs since.

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