I've been writing PHP for over a decade and teaching Laravel in Spanish for five years. I started recording videos in my living room to explain the things I wish I'd found when I was a junior.
Today El Rincón de Isma is a community of more than 17,000 developers. I publish videos every week, run mentoring programs and still write production code every day — because teaching something you don't practice shows immediately.
I'm especially interested in how AI is changing the way we program: not as a replacement, but as a copilot for someone who knows what they're doing.
What I'm working on
- Recording the first batch of private Laravel 12 courses.
- Exploring AI agents applied to real Laravel projects.
- Mentoring developers who want to make the jump to senior.
- Publishing a new video every week on YouTube.
My everyday stack
- Laravel
- PHP
- Docker
- Proxmox
- Home Assistant
- React
- Nginx
- n8n
- Cloudflare
- Traefik
- Inertia
- Tailwind
- Pest
- TrueNAS
- Ubuntu
- Claude Code
- MQTT
- Filament
- Vite
- MySQL
The road so far
2021
El Rincón de Isma is born
First Laravel video recorded with a borrowed mic and a lot of enthusiasm.
2023
10,000 subscribers
The channel becomes a reference for Laravel in Spanish.
2024
Mentoring begins
First individual and group mentorships with developers across Latin America and Spain.
2026
AI and development
A new content line about AI applied to code: Claude Code, agents and automation.
Let's talk
Got a question, a proposal or just want to say hi? I'm one message away.
ismael@elrincondeisma.com