I speak at conferences and meetups, and since 2026 I've hosted them too, running the main stage instead of just standing on it. Want me at your event, speaking or hosting? Get in touch →
My first time hosting a conference: I was the MC for Laravel Live Denmark 2026, keeping the day flowing, introducing the speakers, and making sure the room had a good time.
We stopped writing code by hand, and the bottleneck moved to reading it. How we made agent-written code predictable with deterministic checks, a stricter structure and an agent-driven process, so PRs got cheap to review.
There was chaos in our database. This is the honest story of building a repository-pattern abstraction over a messy legacy structure, going all-in, and then pragmatically walking most of it back to Eloquent.
Single-purpose action classes are everywhere right now. A practical guide to using them well in Laravel: naming, inputs and outputs, when to add a second 'flow' layer, how to test and mock them, and when not to bother.
Most of us spend our days in legacy apps, so instead of the risky Big Rewrite, here's how to strangle an old PHP app into Laravel one piece at a time, and how to get your company on board for the journey.
Isak Berglind speaks at conferences and meetups, and hosts and MCs developer events, including as MC at Laravel Live Denmark 2026.
