iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joe Tannenbaum @joe.codes · 02/02/2026

Cleaning out a bunch of files from my computer and stumbled upon this one One of the more life-changing emails I've ever sent

Hey Taylor,

I was that kid that created an Angelfire site for my theater group in
high school. We wanted to promote our upcoming shows on the internet
and no one knew how to do it. So I figured it out. It blew my mind
that I could just type some characters into Notepad and out popped a
website. I got hooked.

Fast forward to today, I am now a seasoned full-stack developer that
has been building entire web apps from top to bottom for well over 15
years. Laravel has been an integral part of my stack since 4.2 was
released back in 2014.

I’ve lived a lot of lives over the course of my career, and what has
crystallized for me over the past couple of years is that I want to
build developer-focused tooling and products. This is what motivates
me. This is what brings me joy.

This is why I built Bellows, a CLI app that sits on top of Forge to
provision your sites even faster and manage your third-party
credentials. This is why I built Blip, allowing developers to flexibly
manage the IP whitelisting for their server. I want to make
developers’ lives easier, I want to make tasks feel like magic.

I love working on hard problems. I love experimenting with code to see
if something amazing comes out the other side. I love collaborating
with other talented developers and exchanging ideas and techniques.
Last, but certainly not least: I’m fun to work with. I have a great
sense of humor, I’m a fun hang, and my Slack gif game is strong.

I would love to have a conversation the next time you’re expanding the
Laravel team. Building out world-class products and packages under the
Laravel banner would be both a dream and a task I’m well-suited for.

Talk soon,
Joe

Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 02/02/2026

Love this

Jeremy Braband @jbraband.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Proof you can just do things.