Victor MalaiSenior Full Stack Developer — real-time systems, VoIP and multi-tenant SaaS.https://victormalai.dev/Meet CarLog: every cost of your car in one apphttps://victormalai.dev/articles/meet-carlog-every-cost-of-your-car-in-one-app/https://victormalai.dev/articles/meet-carlog-every-cost-of-your-car-in-one-app/I wanted to know what my car really costs me, so I built CarLog for myself. A tour of what it does: fuel economy, expenses, reminders, documents, and a home-screen widget.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:55:00 GMTMeet HomeSplit: shared expenses, groceries, and chores in one apphttps://victormalai.dev/articles/meet-homesplit-shared-expenses-groceries-and-chores-in-one-app/https://victormalai.dev/articles/meet-homesplit-shared-expenses-groceries-and-chores-in-one-app/HomeSplit is my iOS app for people who share a home. A tour of what it does: splitting bills, settling up, groceries, chores, receipt scanning, and themes.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:40:00 GMTFrom Laravel to Cloudflare Workers: rebuilding Laravel Restify on Honohttps://victormalai.dev/articles/laravel-restify-on-cloudflare-workers-models-repositories-and-policies/https://victormalai.dev/articles/laravel-restify-on-cloudflare-workers-models-repositories-and-policies/Hono gives you a router and a handler. Moving a Laravel backend to Workers, we needed a framework that scales across services, so we rebuilt Laravel Restify's shape on top of Hono.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:58:54 GMTOne config per screen: parent tests for every CRUD screen in a Playwright suitehttps://victormalai.dev/articles/one-config-per-screen-parent-tests-for-crud-screens/https://victormalai.dev/articles/one-config-per-screen-parent-tests-for-crud-screens/Ten copy-pasted page classes became one declarative config per screen, a shared CrudPage, and parent tests every module inherits, plus the module-specific tests that sit next to them.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:37:42 GMT