Jacob Martella

It’s been a minute. Here’s where things stand with ArtisanPack UI — the visual editor’s React pivot, new framework support across packages, the security package split into seven, and the early days of building Keystone CMS for JMWD clients.

Building a forms package from scratch in a week sounds ambitious, but with a solid plan and Claude Code, that’s exactly what happened. Here’s how I created the ArtisanPack UI Forms package — a drag-and-drop form builder for Laravel with multi-step forms, custom notifications, accessibility, and extensibility baked in from day one.

February was about working sustainably. I made solid progress on the ArtisanPack UI Visual Editor, started building pre-built dashboards, created a surprise Rust desktop app called Hangar, and started planning what’s next for my personal dashboard.