Ivan Centamori

Domain Name System Everything you do online begins with a question you never see.

The JIT of PHP 8 PHP has never run your code.

Byte Pair Encoding Byte Pair Encoding is a data compression algorithm published in 1994 by Philip Gage in an article for the C Users Journal.

The Sieve of Eratosthenes The Sieve of Eratosthenes is one of the oldest algorithms in history — it dates back to the 3rd century BC, when the Greek...

The art (and science) of Browser Fingerprinting Have you ever wondered how the internet knows who you are even after you've cleared your cache, delete...

The CQRS Pattern If you've ever worked on a web application that started small but grew over time into a medium or large-scale project, you are well a...

How Llama 2 Works: Inference and Architecture in Pure PHP The PHP ecosystem has long been the engine of the web.

Arrays in PHP In my projects and on this blog, I often explore how to push PHP beyond its traditional boundaries.

SMTP: How we've been sending digital letters since 1982 If there’s one thing that terribly fascinates me about computer science, it is not the lates...

Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP Or: How to find a needle in a haystack without checking all the hay In the previous article we saw ho...

Vector search in Dungeons and Dragons If you've ever tried searching for something in a SQL database using a LIKE %query% query, you know you'll only ...

Have we returned to the basics of web development?

About ORM design If you work with PHP, you've probably used tools like Eloquent or Doctrine ad nauseam.