Phil Mareu
The developer who keeps building things that didn't exist yesterday.
— Phil, 2026 —
A self-taught kid from rural Kansas who kept building.
I was 12 when the family got a computer. It came with a programming book. I read it cover to cover, did the exercises, and started writing games. That was thirty years ago, and I haven't stopped building things since.
Small-town Kansas. No computer clubs. No mentors. Just a kid, a machine, and a book. Programming stayed a hobby for over a decade before I ever thought of it as a career.
Eventually I went back to school for mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas. Learned MATLAB. Worked in structural analysis. But the itch to build my own things never went away.
In 2010, I quit the engineering job and started Philsquare. In 2014, I committed everything to Laravel. In 2024, I started betting on AI. The pattern is the same every time: find a thing worth building, then build it.
Today, I build web applications for businesses, disc golf software used by hundreds of thousands, and furniture for my house. Same impulse, different materials.
A decade-plus of builds, at different scales.
Things I've
made.
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DG Live Scores
Live scoring for disc golf with AI-generated commentary. See anyone playing at any course, anywhere, on a real-time map. Click to follow any round as it happens.
PDGA Digital Scorecard
Built a scorecard system for the Professional Disc Golf Association. Still running today. Processes roughly 100K scorecards per year.
"The most widely-used thing I've built."
Twelve years in Laravel. What I reach for every day.
The stack.
What I reach for every day. Twelve years deep in Laravel. Filament since launch. Claude Code since it earned my trust. Tools matter less than the work — but these tools matter.
Across mediums.
The medium changes. The drive doesn't.
Meetups, podcasts, shop talk.
Let's talk
shop.
Meetups, podcasts, speaking, Filament questions, AI workflow geekery — happy to trade notes on the craft with anyone building good things.