Hi! I am Nico.
Lead Programmer at Tighten and former Tech Lead at VueSchool, with over 15 years of experience building web applications. Laravel, Vue.js, Nuxt, and Tailwind rock! Here you'll find my articles and projects.
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
- → Promoted from Programmer to Lead Programmer in 2025
- → Author of technical articles on the company blog
VueSchool
2019 - 2023Lead Software Engineer
Official Vue Tranining Platform
- → Built the Official Vue.js Certification program
- → Led a team of four engineers
Perfit
2014 - 2019Front-End Lead Software Developer
Email Marketing Service
- → Created "Eddie," a responsive email template editor
- → Built the web app used by thousands of customers
LatinCloud
2009 - 2014Fullstack Web Developer
Cloud Hosting
- → Developed shared hosting control panel app
- → Launched an email tool delivering 10M+ emails in year one
Latest Articles
Chat with Your Documents: A Practical Guide to RAG Using the New Laravel AI SDK
The new Laravel AI SDK makes it significantly easier to integrate AI into your Laravel applications. In this article I wrote for Tighten, I walk through how to use it to build a RAG system.
Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas
Prism is a PHP package that allows you to communicate with different AI providers through a unified API. It was created by TJ Miller and is a perfect fit for Laravel applications.
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?