Laravel 9: New Release Cadence and PHP 8 Compatibility
How Laravel 9's annual release cadence affects project planning, and what PHP 8 compatibility means for your codebase.
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Being a polyglot developer: choosing the language for the problem
Personal notes on why mastering multiple programming languages is a matter of tool selection, not identity.
Simplifying My Toolset as a Software Engineer
Reviewing my tool stack during the transition from senior to staff level, I realized fewer tools lead to clearer decisions.
PHP 8.1 Is Coming: Safer Domain Models with Enums and Readonly Properties
PHP 8.1 isn't out yet, but I'm already exploring how the upcoming native enum support and readonly properties will reshape domain modelling.
After REST: Trying Out GraphQL
While solving a real over-fetching problem with GraphQL, I weigh where REST is still sufficient and where GraphQL actually makes sense.
Type Conversion and Type Coercion in PHP
A practical look at PHP type conversion and coercion: gettype, settype, var_dump, and why strict_types belongs in every file.