How I ended up buying vinelabs.de
I bought a domain on a Sunday afternoon I had not planned to buy. The trigger was a composer.json author field. The realisation was that shipping eight packages under my personal GitHub username reads like a hobby.
The Shopware plugin that grew into a library
Started as a small Shopware 6 plugin for Germany's XRechnung 3.0 e-invoice format. Ended as a PHP monorepo with a framework-agnostic core, four adapters, and four CMS plugins. Nobody asked. I built it anyway.
Building mcp-pool: one week, eleven MCP servers, one shared OAuth library
How a single Stripe MCP server turned into a monorepo of eleven, and why half the engineering effort went into not writing the same OAuth flow six times.