"I want to go to a conference, but I'm worried I won't be able to keep up with the talks." Many people who have just started their careers as engineers probably feel this way. Conferences are not just places for…
In the previous article "What did 'PHP2Shell' leave behind for us?", we summarized the overall picture of the critical PHP vulnerability (a system weakness) discovered in October 2026. In this sequel series, we will delve into the points from the previous article…
This week's tooling landscape split cleanly between two themes: smaller models getting meaningfully better at agentic tasks, and platform-layer observability closing the gap on custom infrastructure. Throw in a zero-day PHP RCE that's already being exploited, and there's enough here…
To build a production-ready deep-linking architecture in PHP, you must separate raw payload strings from internal database IDs. This guide walks through parsing deep links, mapping opaque random tokens to MySQL entities, handling state transitions gracefully when a user clicks…
Welcome to our weekly log for the Supabase.NET SDK 🎉 For the 4th week in a row, the repository had 10+ weekly community PRs merged 🎉 This is incredible! As such, v8.4.0 got released last week. Thanks to @fresh55 and @diegofesanto for helping me burning…
Welcome to our weekly log for the Supabase.NET SDK 🎉 As mentioned in the previous post, I focused on the automatic generation of our feature compliance file, which is now done. The SDK provides annotations we place on public members…
The host panel gives you a dropdown of PHP versions. Changing it takes one click. Finding out whether the site still works takes a morning, and if it doesn't, you're doing it in front of customers. Most of the prep…
The WordPress core is up to date. Themes and plugins have also been updated. There was a situation where I had to confirm for such a site, 'Is it okay to just update PHP as it is?' At first, I…
Your WordPress site works. Content editors are happy, the blog ranks, and the theme looks fine. But one part of it has outgrown everything plugins can offer. Maybe it's a booking system held together by three add-ons, a member dashboard…
PHP updates are easy to ignore when an application is already working. That is especially true when a release looks like another small version number: But PHP 8.5.12 is not the kind of update I would treat as routine maintenance. It…
Frameworks, queues, and performance patterns for PHP 8+.
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