Software Engineer from Melbourne, Australia — notes on web development, tooling, and the occasional opinion.https://robmellett.com/en-auhttps://robmellett.com/blog/modern-saas-starter/https://robmellett.com/blog/modern-saas-starter/A production-ready Laravel SaaS starter kit with Paddle billing baked in, so you can skip the boilerplate and ship your actual product.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/testing-payment-apis/https://robmellett.com/blog/testing-payment-apis/How to make testing Payment APIs fast, easy and cleanMon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-domain-driven-design-agent/https://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-domain-driven-design-agent/A pragmatic, API-first take on Domain-Driven Design in Laravel — actions, payloads, invokable controllers, and Responsable responses. Inspired by Spatie Beyond CRUD, adapted for real-world projects.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-phpstan-agent/https://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-phpstan-agent/A field manual for autonomous or human agents working in Laravel 13 repos using PHPStan and LarastanThu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-3/https://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-3/In this part of the series we tweak the AWS Personalize Solution Recipes that the AWS team have built based on their experiences of Amazon Retail.Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-2/https://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-2/In this part of the series we set up AWS Personalize to handle the Items and InteractionsMon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-1/https://robmellett.com/blog/machine-learning-with-laravel-and-aws-personalize-part-1/In this part of the series we quickly go over what AWS Personalize is, and set up a Laravel project to start ingesting data to interact with the service.Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-and-hasura-for-instant-graphql/https://robmellett.com/blog/laravel-and-hasura-for-instant-graphql/How to use the power of Laravel and Hasura for Instant GraphQLWed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT