Developer, Father, Husband, Laravel Astronaut. I craft developer experiences.https://tjmiller.me/enhttps://tjmiller.me/posts/apple-intelligence-rewrite-engine/https://tjmiller.me/posts/apple-intelligence-rewrite-engine/Apple's on-device model has been great for cleaning up dictation. The honest reason why, and the three places it falls short once you push it past reshaping text.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/where-your-voice-goes/https://tjmiller.me/posts/where-your-voice-goes/Most dictation tools send your voice to a server to turn it into text. Sonari runs the model on your Mac, so the audio never leaves. Why I'm building it that way.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/what-swift-actors-dont-do/https://tjmiller.me/posts/what-swift-actors-dont-do/An actor serializes synchronous access, not two calls across a suspension. The transcription race that taught me the difference, and the four-line fix.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/where-ive-been/https://tjmiller.me/posts/where-ive-been/I've been gone for four months, and I owe you an explanation. Since May 2025 I've been struggling with the hardest mental health crisis of my life, and in February my wife had a catastrophic ankle injury that required me to step back from everything. I'm using Laracon 2026 to come back to Prism and Iris sustainably, with real boundaries this time, because I'm finally ready to show up again.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/iris-agent-updates/https://tjmiller.me/posts/iris-agent-updates/I pulled sub-agent processing out of Horizon and gave it its own daemon. A long-running loop fit better than a queue, and the whole system got simpler.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/lets-build-something-together/https://tjmiller.me/posts/lets-build-something-together/Creator of Prism and Iris. 20 years of code, 13 years of Laravel, and a passion for building at the intersection of Laravel and AI. I'm looking for my next adventureWed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/truths-refinement-update/https://tjmiller.me/posts/truths-refinement-update/The Iris truth system got a major overhaul. Stricter promotion filters out temporal garbage, conflict detection catches contradictions before they merge into frankentruths, and generation tracking shows how derived each fact is from its original evidence.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/iris-truths/https://tjmiller.me/posts/iris-truths/I was updating docs when I realized the tier system was fundamentally flawed. We were using importance as a proxy for universality, and they're completely different things. This is how Truths fix that.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/customizing-iris/https://tjmiller.me/posts/customizing-iris/Learn how to extend Iris with custom tools and prompts using the local configuration system. We'll build a weather integration from scratch: an on-demand tool for fetching conditions and a context prompt that automatically injects weather data into every conversation.Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/multi-generational-memory-consolidation/https://tjmiller.me/posts/multi-generational-memory-consolidation/What happens when an AI assistant remembers too much? The same thing that happens to humans: you need to forget intelligently. Here's how I built multi-generational memory consolidation for IrisThu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/2025-and-beyond/https://tjmiller.me/posts/2025-and-beyond/Had a rollercoaster of 2025 but 2026 is exciting. Announcing Iris.Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/building-nova-foundation/https://tjmiller.me/posts/building-nova-foundation/Building my life co-pilot and partner. Lets talk about what we've built so far, starting with the memory problem.Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/sparkle-streaming-with-tools/https://tjmiller.me/posts/sparkle-streaming-with-tools/Streaming agent respones with Sparkle Server and tool usageSat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/sparkle-roadmap-life-lemons/https://tjmiller.me/posts/sparkle-roadmap-life-lemons/I disappeared for a bit, here's the background and what's up with Sparkle.Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/building-package-installers/https://tjmiller.me/posts/building-package-installers/Building package installers for Laravel and Lumen packages to make it super easy to get up and running.Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/verifying-laravel-version-compatibility/https://tjmiller.me/posts/verifying-laravel-version-compatibility/Verifying Laravel version compatibility with TravisCI for package development.Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/abstracting-request-keys/https://tjmiller.me/posts/abstracting-request-keys/Abstracting API request/response keys to evolve codebases while upholding contracts.Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/sentry-logging-in-laravel/https://tjmiller.me/posts/sentry-logging-in-laravel/Using Sentry for Laravel application logging.Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/linking-vessel-projects-together/https://tjmiller.me/posts/linking-vessel-projects-together/Vessel is a great project, lets walk through linking multiple Vessel projects together.Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/using-middleware-to-configure-a-service-class/https://tjmiller.me/posts/using-middleware-to-configure-a-service-class/Using HTTP middleware to configure a service class based on the request in Laravel.Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/separate-interactive-test-suites/https://tjmiller.me/posts/separate-interactive-test-suites/Using separate test suites in a Laravel project with PHPUnit.Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://tjmiller.me/posts/an-approach-to-middleware-testing/https://tjmiller.me/posts/an-approach-to-middleware-testing/How I approach testing middleware in Laravel.Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT