Blog by Dominik Chrástecký

In this article we'll learn how to create parts of the code for SailfishOS apps in Golang.

ActivityPub is the best protocol available for interoperable federated social media—primarily because no other current federated protocols target social media, offer interoperability, and aren't deprecated.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that Angular has supported server-side rendering (SSR) for quite a while now.

A hands-on intro to building your own PHP framework entirely from scratch — handwritten, with minimal dependencies.

The Steam Deck (and SteamOS) delivers a fantastic console-like experience on a Linux system.

Did you know that PHP’s userland lets you change a readonly property multiple times?

The smaller features in PHP 8.5 that may not make headlines but definitely deserve a mention.

Lazy objects are a fantastic addition to the already impressive PHP 8.4 release.

Another exciting PHP 8.5 feature: Closures can now be used as constant expressions, allowing them to appear as default parameters or attribute values.

One of the most exciting additions in PHP 8.5 is the pipe operator.

Use PHP’s FFI to supercharge your application by offloading compute-heavy work to Go!

A small but meaningful update in PHP 8.5 introduces asymmetric visibility for static properties.

PHP 8.5 adds a new function for calculating the Levenshtein distance between strings — now with proper UTF-8 support.

PHP 8.5 adds support for final properties using constructor promotion.

Creating a basic Matrix bot is straightforward—generate an access token, send an HTTP request, and you're done.

PHP 8.5 introduces support for attributes on non-class constants.

Today, we'll explore one of the exciting features coming with PHP 8.5—the new #[NoDiscard] attribute to indicate important return values.

I love creating configurable generic models using OpenSCAD, and this is the most complex one I've created to date—an easy-to-configure calendar using some clever algorithms to render correctly.

If you’ve ever worked with both PHPStan and the official AWS SDK for PHP, you know they don’t get along particularly well.

SQLite has limited capabilities for modifying tables—often, you must drop the original table and recreate it, which can break your foreign keys.

Transpiling lets you write your package or application using the latest PHP features—even if your runtime is older.

Feature flags (also known as feature toggles) let you enable or disable specific features or code paths at runtime without deploying new code.

If you're like me and feel uneasy whenever something is typed as 'any' in TypeScript, this article is for you!