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.
Laravel
I build with PHP and Laravel and the ecosystem around it: Livewire, Alpine and Tailwind.
By day I am a Web Application Senior Architect at Service Corporation International (SCI Direct) in Plantation, Florida, where I led the development of SCI Nautica, the company's nationwide e-commerce platform, and SCI Portal, its remote sales platform. I am also the founder of Krodox, which puts that same engineering discipline within reach of a local business owner with no technical middleman.
Laravel, shipping fast. and Laravel, building with AI. grew out of that work: what twelve years of shipping teach that the documentation cannot. Both open with their first chapter here; the first is on Amazon, and the second is sold only on this site.
Freemasonry
I was raised a Master Mason in Luz de América Lodge No. 255, at the Orient of Miami, and hold the thirty-second degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. I am neither a historian of the Order nor a scholar of its archives.
No Longer Divided (2026), published in Spanish as Dejar de vivir dividido, came out of an observation it took me years to learn to formulate: that to know the language of a Tradition is not the same as to understand it. Whatever is of value in it I received; my only merit will have been not to interrupt the chain.
