# Wouter van Marrum

> A decade of building, aimed at deciding what gets built.

The personal site of Wouter van Marrum, Senior Software Developer.

Senior Laravel developer turned interim Product Owner. 10+ years building production PHP systems, with hands-on experience owning delivery across engineering, product, and support teams.

## Pages

- [Home](https://woutervm.com): The story so far, recent writing, side projects and how to say hi.
- [Blog](https://woutervm.com/blog): Every published post, newest first.
- [Resume](https://woutervm.com/resume): Experience, skills and education.

## Writing

- [[Quotes] Buzz Williams 4 Things](https://woutervm.com/blog/quotes-buzz-williams-4-things): I saw a video from the American basketball coach Buzz Williams that is worth sharing. In the video he goes into 4 things you should do in life.
- [[Short] Filament File Upload Issues](https://woutervm.com/blog/short-filament-file-upload-issues): I ran into a file upload issue on my `testing` environment which I had trouble figuring out. After prompting with Cursor for a while it found why it wasn't working for.
- [Looking Back On 2025](https://woutervm.com/blog/looking-back-on-2025): 2025 was a bittersweet year that felt like an endurance race, but we made it to the end. I'm reflecting on my career, the role communities played in my life, and my personal growth.
- [Reflecting On My Career Journey: Aspirations, Challenges, And Goals For 2026](https://woutervm.com/blog/reflecting-on-my-career-journey-aspirations-challenges-and-goals-for-2026): In this post, I am going to reflect on my professional career and talk about my aspirations for the future, which also means I am ending with goals for 2026.
- [My Imperfect Introduction In 20 Words Or Less](https://woutervm.com/blog/my-imperfect-introduction-in-20-words-or-less): I've come across a TEDx talk of Rebecca Okamoto which goes in to how to introduce yourself in 20 words or less by focussing on {thing to focus on}. I find this talk interesting because of two things, first off I struggle a lot "selling" myself to other people by showing them what my strengts are. Secondly, I struggle more when trying to do this "on paper".
- [Converting My Blog To Markdown](https://woutervm.com/blog/converting-my-blog-to-markdown): After writing a few articles I noticed I was missing flexibility I had when using markdown instead of a wysiwyg editor. I'll explain which markdown renderer I choose and which issues I ran into.
- [Reading List](https://woutervm.com/blog/reading-list): On occasion I see something interesting that I want to read but I don't have a good list for it to keep track off. So in order to be transparent I'll just share it here and hopefully I don't forget about it. If you have recommendations for me I suggest sending to me on [X formerly Twitter](https://x.com/wottavm).
- [Enabling Cloudflare R2 File Uploads With Livewire](https://woutervm.com/blog/enabling-cloudflare-r2-file-uploads-with-livewire): <p>Enabling Cloudflare R2 File Uploads With Livewire the easy and simple way. From battling with CORS to handling uploads easy and straightforward.</p>
- [To Write Or Not To Write](https://woutervm.com/blog/to-write-or-not-to-write)

## Side projects

- [grabtime.me](https://grabtime.me) (Live): Booking sessions and appointments. My playground for owning a product end to end. Laravel, Inertia, React.
- [today](https://github.com/wotta/today) (Repo): A day view that holds a checklist and an agenda, and nothing else. Offline first. Install it on Chrome or Firefox.
- [friendly-timezones](https://github.com/wotta/friendly-timezones) (Repo): Timezone handling that reads like a sentence instead of a lookup table.

## Elsewhere

- [Find me on X (formerly Twitter)](https://x.com/wottavm)
- [Follow me on X (formerly Twitter)](https://x.com/intent/follow?screen_name=wottavm)
- [Check out my GitHub account](https://github.com/wotta)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-van-marrum/)

## Optional

- [Everything in one file](https://woutervm.com/llms-full.txt): The story, the resume and every published post in full, as markdown.
- [Atom feed](https://woutervm.com/rss): New posts as they are published.
- [MCP server](https://woutervm.com/mcp): Read-only tools over streamable HTTP to search and read the blog and the author's profile.