Benjamin Eberlei

I think one major strength of PHP has always been its “get the job done” mentality, and for the web 1.0 and web 2.0 areas it was perfectly suited, even going so far that an analogy “vibe coding language of the 2000s” could be considered on point ([source…

In this post, I explain how to use sbx to get a sandboxed version of Claude Code running, including your choice of PHP version and additional tools that you need for your development work.

This blog did not have syntax highlighting since I rebuilt it with Symfony for my own entertainment.

Recently I migrated this blog away from Tailwind to [Bulma](https://bulma.io) CSS framework, which uses a more semantical approach to CSS classes.

I am using DigitalOcean App platform for a few of my side- and demo-projects, for example this blog engine or [PHP RFC Watch](https://php-rfc-watch.beberlei.de).

Participating in the Shopware Boost Day #4 today I tried the most simple approach to get it running on a Linux developer machine, avoiding the Docker setup.

Over the last weeks I have seen a few people tweet or write about the burden of open-source maintainership or being a public person in a programming community.

I realized that I am very strict about the use of PHPs empty function in code review.

PHP 8 is coming with a Just In Time Compiler (JIT) and people are starting to test it in more detail.

I do a lot of Code Reviews, and without proper automation of most of the low level items that you are usually "remarking" to colleagues it is a frustrating experience for everyone involved and takes more time that needed.

This weekend I attended the Firegento Hackathon at Netz98 in Mainz.

For a long time I was extremely unhappy with the unresponsiveness of the features list in Tideways.