Building software that lasts, and the older crafts that taught me how.
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The first shelf
Software
Laravel APIs and AI features that survive real users. The books and the essays on engineering.
The second shelf
Freemasonry
Symbol, transmission and the inner work. A book in English and Spanish, and essays from the lodge.
I · The books
The library
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No Longer Divided
Freemasonry, Symbol, and Transmission in the Modern World
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Laravel, shipping fast.
APIs that survive deadlines, pivots, and other people
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Laravel, building with AI.
AI features that survive real users, real invoices, and their own confidence
II · The essays
Pieces of architecture
Essays on Freemasonry and on the craft of building software. Anyone can browse them; a free account opens the full texts.
All essays →- VIII The Letter That Makes No Sound Borges's «The Aleph» read with the craft in front of it: the cellar as a chamber of reflection, the difference between the infinite and the indefinite, the silent letter of the tradition against the sphere that shows everything, the mystic without a house, and Daneri, who uses the centre to take an inventory. Freemasonry 11 min read
- VII What the Fox Knew The Little Prince read with the craft in front of it: the six planets as a census of the modern world, the fox who asks for silence and patience before handing over his secret, the rite that makes one day different from the others, and the serpent, which is the only death that matters. Freemasonry 15 min read
- VI Scrum Was Built for a Bottleneck That No Longer Exists Scrum is not failing because teams practise it badly. The Scrum Guide itself rests on a premise that AI has broken: that building a usable increment is the slow, expensive part of software. Either Scrum is rebuilt around verification and judgement, or it survives as liturgy. Engineering 13 min read
III · The podcast · in preparation The first episode is on its way.
RSS feedIt is the effective transmission of something a man did not manufacture and does not own: our only function is to receive it whole and to hand it over whole.
IV · The author
Julian Beaujardin
An artisan in Laravel and in Freemasonry
Twelve years in the Laravel ecosystem, from Laracon to Flatcamp on both sides of the Atlantic. I write two kinds of books: guides to building software that outlives its authors, and an essay on Freemasonry, symbol and transmission. Both are about the same thing: receiving a craft whole and handing it on intact.
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