Hi! I am Nico.
I'm a programmer with over 15 years of professional experience who loves Laravel, Vue.js, Nuxt, and Tailwind. Here you'll find my articles, projects and more.
Tech Stack
Laravel
I have vast experience with Laravel, including Inertia, Livewire, Nova, and Filament.
Vue
I love building Vue Apps! And using Pinia, VueUse and Vitetest.
Nuxt
Nuxt is my favorite framework for creating SPA, SSR and SSG applications.
Tailwind
I have been using Tailwind since the alpha days! It is my favorite CSS framework.
MySQL
Node
Linux
Supabase
Deno
Vite
TypeScript
HonoSelected Experience
Tighten
2023 - PresentLead Programmer
Laravel Partner Agency
VueSchool
2019 - 2023Lead Software Engineer
Official Vue Tranining Platform
Perfit
2014 - 2019Front-End Lead Software Developer
Email Marketing Service
LatinCloud
2009 - 2014Fullstack Web Developer
Cloud Hosting
Latest Articles
Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel
Running LLMs on your own server (or even on your own computer) is totally possible. Yes, you need beefy equipment, but the advantages are great:
17 New(ish) Vanilla JavaScript Features You Might Have Missed
Ahhh, that feeling when you discover JavaScript native features that let you say goodbye to bloated npm packages!
SQL Generated Columns and Views: How to Use Them in Your Laravel App
Using ORMs is convenient, but nothing beats understanding the actual SQL queries your database is running under the hood.
10 Efficient (and Fun) Ways to Seed Your Database
Have you ever wanted to start a project right away, only to realize you need a lot of test data? Yeah, me too. Creating seeders is a chore, but... can we make it efficient and, dare I say, fun?
Automatically Deploy Your Nuxt Static Site to DigitalOcean with GitHub Actions
Auto-deploy is one of the great features of Netlify and Vercel. Whenever you push to main... done! Your site builds automatically. I love that, but I prefer to manage my own server.
Five Practical Tips to Improve Search in Laravel Apps With Typesense
At Tighten, I've had the chance to work with Typesense on client projects, and it quickly became my go-to for building fast, powerful search features.