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
- → Built a hosting control panel from scratch
- → Launched an email tool delivering 10M+ emails in year one
Latest Articles
·AIBuild 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:
·JavaScript17 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!
·DatabasesSQL 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.
·Laravel10 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.
·LaravelFive 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.