Request Lifecycle

"When using any tool in the "real world", you feel more confident if you understand how that tool works. Application development is no different. When you understand how your development tools function, you feel more comfortable and confident using them."

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One way to work with money in PHP/Laravel

"At some point, probably most of us have had to work with monetary values in our applications. There is a lot of debate on how to do it right, but the consensus is clear — never use floats and floating-point arithmetic."

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A Quick Performance Optimization Guide Using PHP Generators

"Generators provide an easy way to implement simple iterators without the overhead or complexity of implementing a class that implements the Iterator interface."

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Get Started with Speech Recognition in PHP

"Rev AI offers a suite of speech-to-text APIs to help developers build automatic speech recognition (ASR) into their applications. These APIs cover a variety of use cases, including live and pre-recorded audio transcription, language identification, sentiment analysis and topic extraction."

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Attributes

"Scout APM helps PHP developers pinpoint N+1 queries, memory leaks & more so you can troubleshoot fast & get back to coding faster. Start your free 14-day trial today. As of PHP 8, we'll be able to use attributes."

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My PHP enum style guide

"Scout APM helps PHP developers pinpoint N+1 queries, memory leaks & more so you can troubleshoot fast & get back to coding faster. Start your free 14-day trial today. This is my personal style guide for using enums in PHP."

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PHP in 2022

"Modern websites require complex backends, and I don't see how PHP can compete with languages such as Go, Python or Ruby in the future. PHP is not a likable language but it's probably not going away any time soon."

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How do Nike and Apple make such smooth and touch friendly carousels with pure CSS?

"VotePosted by47 minutes ago OCPlay0:000:00SettingsFullscreen96% Upvoted"

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React and React Native finally feel the same

"If you're a developer of both React and React Native apps, it can be tough to switch between platforms because they feel so different. And in many ways React Native feels relatively... well, backwards."

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Zaplib post-mortem - Zaplib docs

"Welp, this is a weird blog post! Very unexpectedly, we quickly invalidated some of the core hypothesis that make Zaplib work as a startup."
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My 16 Favourite Finder Tips for Mac

"My most successful post so far was a list of tips I put together for using Preview on the Mac (You can find that here). I thought I may as well share some of my other tips with you all, this time for Finder."

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3 Interview Questions to Spot "Fake Agile" Software Engineering Teams

"Last week, I wrote about how software companies can claim to "do the Agile" while implementing waterfall or spiral models of software development. If "fake agile" is the norm, asking a hiring team "do you do real agile?" is pointless. Nor is it helpful to ask about various agile-related ceremonies."

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Implications Of WordPress Joining The Block Protocol

"18 min read Apps, WordPress, Tools, Techniques, Workflow Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Building Headless Storefronts Build in-demand skills like UX, UI and HCI — Northwestern online MS in Info."

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Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance

"I’ve researched and learned enough about client-side memory leaks to know that most web developers aren’t worrying about them too much."

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Being Glue — No Idea Blog

"You know that thing where everyone on a software engineering team turns up and just writes code for eight hours a day and then later the project is successful? No you don't. Projects don’t work like that! Of course coding is an important skill in a software engineering team."

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Why Efficient Hydration in JavaScript Frameworks is so Challenging

"Hydration is the name given to the process in JavaScript frameworks to initializing the page in the browser after it has previously been server rendered."

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A to Z Linux Commands

"There are numerous Linux commands out there. There are a subset of built-in shell commands like cd and then there are the ones from GNU coreutils like less. In addition to that there are additional CLI utilities like curl, wget etc."

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The Return of Server Side Routing

"Return? It never went away. Or at least that is what some smug "told you so" is going to say. But for those who haven't been living under a rock for the past decade, for better or for worse much of the web has been moving to client-side navigation on their sites."

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PHP: Frankenstein arrays

"One of the core data types in PHP is the array. Mostly unchanged since the early beginnings of the language. The name "array" is a bit unfortunate, as well as the implementation. It is not really an array."

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Experiment on your code freely with Git worktree

"Git is designed in part to enable experimentation. Once you know that your work is safely being tracked and safe states exist for you to fall back upon if something goes horribly wrong, you're not afraid to try new ideas."

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