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The best advice I ever got was in 2006: always do the hard parts.

A turbulent flight over the Pacific, a letter to a three-year-old, and the eight-year road to building a database that shouldn’t exist.

If you’ve been paying attention … you’ve noticed I’ve been mysteriously quiet for a bit.

nginx-ingress got cancelled.

After years of WordPress pain, I rebuilt this blog as a hybrid static-dynamic system.

Trust.

You may have noticed I haven’t written anything for a while.

As I’ve gotten more involved in various open source projects and helping out newbies, I’ve started to realize that many frameworks rely on a .env file to hold configuration.

Long ago, my brother and I shared a room, and we’d stay up late into the night, talking until sleep finally won.

Last night I discovered a new feature in ChatGPT’s app.

My goal isn’t to win.

For those who know me, I’ve usually been a pretty big fan of WordPress.

I’m so sorry…

Sorry for the noise, but emails, social links, and the WordPress reader should be working again… 😉

I’ve moved to a headless CMS, and this is a test to make sure everything still works.

In the ever-evolving world of DevOps and cloud infrastructure, there’s a mantra you’ve probably heard: “Treat your servers like cattle, not pets.”

I work on FrankenPHP quite a bit, which is a PHP SAPI written in Go.

In today’s rapidly evolving software development landscape, increasingly complex systems present new challenges in code reviews.

This guide will allow you to use value objects in PHP without a special $obj->equals() method.

If you’ve ever tried to use an array as a queue or stack (via array_pop , array_push , array_unshift and array_shift ), you may have discovered they are slow, particularly array_unshift which requires shifting the…

I was born on a Wednesday, and for some reason, when my birthday falls on a Wednesday, I always consider it a “special” birthday: a Birthday Day.

Durable PHP is a framework for writing arbitrarily complex code that scales.

Durable PHP is a framework for writing arbitrarily complex code that scales.

From the beginning, I knew Event Sourcing would be a big part of Durable PHP , and I learned from several Event Sourced projects I’ve built or worked on over the years.

I’m fascinated by event-driven systems.

If there is one moment I’ll never forget, it was the little box hovering a few feet in the air.

I moved around a lot as a kid; I always had to make new friends wherever I went.

This adventure starts with git-lfs .

Ok, so the title might be a little bit click-baity since I haven’t compared it to every router in existence.

In the previous post , I talked about priority queues.

This is the beginning of a series on implementing various algorithms in idiomatic PHP and their reference implementation (usually based on C++).

Last week I was working on porting an encryption scheme to PHP from C++, mostly to embed it in a website and make changes to it specific to my use case; and for fun.

Yesterday, I wrote a post over lunch that people just absolutely hated.

So, I got an interesting spam comment on my post today :

For the last 15 years or so, my favorite language has been C#, despite using mostly PHP in my workplace since 2012.

Writing software is hard.

It has been a little over a year since I got the boat.