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

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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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