Become a sponsor to Emma De Silva

Hi, I'm Emma — a self-taught backend developer and the creator and sole maintainer of HydePHP, an open-source static site generator that brings Jekyll's workflow to the Laravel ecosystem. HydePHP has been downloaded 200,000+ times and is used by developers who want the simplicity of static sites with the power of PHP tooling.

Beyond HydePHP, I've contributed the Number utility class to Laravel core, guest-authored for Laravel News, and spoken at conferences including Laravel Live UK and Laravel Live Denmark — most recently on OPSEC for Laravel developers.

Maintaining an open-source project with 200k+ downloads as a single maintainer takes real, ongoing time: triaging issues, reviewing PRs, writing docs, and building new features like the realtime compiler.

Your sponsorship directly funds that work and helps keep HydePHP free, actively maintained, and improving for everyone who relies on it.

Thank you for considering supporting independent open-source work! 💛