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I recently discovered the Symfony Security Auditor project on GitHub.

While preparing the slides for my talk about FrankenPHP and DDEV at the API Platform Conference 2026, I discovered the hot reload feature of FrankenPHP.

I recently worked on a project where we needed to secure our application by requiring users to authenticate against an Identity Provider before accessing it.

While exploring ways to run Nvidia workloads on Nomad, I stumbled upon an opportunity to upgrade our vLLM setup to support the newly released Qwen 3.8 model.

Last weekend I learned about the OpenAI WebMCP Challenge.

As developers, we're familiar with static analysis tools like PHPStan for identifying code problems.

When we first started using Nomad about 7 years ago, we quickly realized the need for Vault to handle secrets and certificates.

I recently had to develop a tiny Odoo module and wanted to use DDEV for the task.

As I work more intensively with coding agents, I've realized that a long-term memory is important.

I recently updated our Gally DDEV addon to support the latest Gally 2.3 release.

On August 20th, the PHP Usergroup Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region is meeting again.

For years, we relied on an external ticketing service for selling unKonf tickets.

For a few months we've been using Onyx as an internal AI chat platform.

Standard code base search in coding agents like OpenCode can be very limited.

How can I customize an existing Sylius Grid?

While trying to redeploy one of our Nomad jobs last week, I ran into an error that I hadn't seen before.

We've been using a private Composer repository since the early days of Composer, starting with Satis, then migrating to Satisfy, and finally to Repman for better organization support.

As a big Symfony UX fan, I was excited to explore the new components included in the latest Symfony UX release.

It's that time again!

I'm happy to announce that I'll be joining the celebrations at the 10-year anniversary of the PHP Developer Day Conference on September 25th, organized by my friends at the PHP Usergroup Dresden.

I've been using OpenCode for my AI development workflow over the past six months.

In a Nomad job file, template blocks are a convenient way to ship configuration files that are populated from environment variables, Vault secrets, or just general configurations.

API Platform Conference 2026 is back on September 17–18, 2026 in Lille, France.

The Sylius framework, built on top of Symfony, offers a robust foundation for e-commerce applications.