Hi, I am Mikhail!

I write code for the web and make irregular updates to this page.

Zero Isn’t Zero: What Laravel Cloud Actually Costs When Your App Is Asleep

October 22nd, 2026 — I moved three side projects to Laravel Cloud for a month. The bill was $4.87. Here’s what scale to zero really costs, and what never sleeps.

Ten Years Later, It Just Works

September 27th, 2026 — A decade of Particle boards, Raspberry Pis, and homemade relays, and it took Matter and two small SONOFF switches to finally make home automation just work.

From "Ship it" to shipped

July 29th, 2026 — Yesterday I opened [SignUpBreeze](https://signupbreeze.com/) to everyone and turned on payments. It happened during Laracon, which feels right, because Laracon is where the push to finish came from.