How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin
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Turning Manual Ops Into a 10-Minute Task
I once turned a 2-week manual data update process into a 10-minute automated pipeline by writing a PHP script that ingested a vendor spreadsheet, norm…
OPC UA from PHP? Yes, with Zero C Extensions — Introducing php-opcua/opcua-client
If you've ever tried to connect a PHP application to industrial machinery — a PLC, a SCADA system, a historian — you've probably hit a wall. The OPC U…
Fast Atomic Flow: PHP 8.4, Swoole, NATS, Go и Закон Табуна
Как переезд в деревню, рефакторинг жизни и парное программирование с DeepSeek привели к созданию демо на Swoole, NATS и Go. Без купюр и без пони. 🐎 В …
Laravel AI Integration: A Production-Ready Architecture Guide (OpenAI vs Gemini vs Claude)
Every Laravel AI integration starts the same way. You install a package, copy an API key into .env , write a controller method that fires a prompt, an…
Type-safe collections in PHP 8.4: what I wish arrays had
You know the feeling. You're three callbacks deep in array_map , you tack on array_filter , then array_values to fix the keys, and PhpStorm gives up a…
How Architecture Tests Caught a Data Isolation Bug Before It Reached Production
TL;DR: Pest PHP architecture tests let you write your team coding rules as automated tests. Controllers using the DB facade directly? Build fails. Mod…
How to Filter and Sort Posts by Custom Field Value Using JetSmartFilters + Bricks Builder
How to Filter and Sort Posts by Custom Field Value Using JetSmartFilters + Bricks Builder If you've ever tried to let users filter and sort a post lis…
Migrating a PHP monolith in production: how I think about it
TL;DR — A security breach took down a site running on a 10-year-old Debian server with an obsolete LAMP stack. No access to the original infrastructur…
Redis-backed permissions for high-volume Laravel apps: v4.0.0-beta.1
I just shipped v4.0.0-beta.1 of laravel-permissions-redis , and I want to share both what's in it and the specific problem it exists to solve. The pro…
Symfony Messenger: A Great Servant, But a Terrible Master (Or How Asynchrony Cost Me Half My Beard)
I am a long-time Symfony developer. I love the framework. I use it in countless projects—whether they are large corporate systems, smaller work tasks,…
Best AI Coding Tools for Laravel Developers in 2026
Every "best AI tools 2026" list is written for a JavaScript developer. The benchmarks use React. The screenshots show TypeScript. The winner is always…
Я устал читать 100+ сообщений в Telegram и написал бота, который делает саммари и отвечает как AI-ассистент
Всем привет, меня зовут Ян, я разработчик. Мне интересно следить и участвовать в дискуссиях на разные темы: разработка, devops, it стартапы, чаты друз…
Building a Saju Engine: Case Study with Karina's Birth Chart Algorithm
The Data Problem K-pop Poses to Backend Engineers Here's a fun engineering challenge that landed on my desk last year: how do you build a production-g…
11 Middlewares and 6 Traits That Power a Multi-Tenant Laravel SaaS
Every request in a multi-tenant SaaS needs to answer a dozen questions before your controller runs. Which company context? Is the session valid? Is th…
Strauss: The Better Mozart for WordPress Plugin Dependency Isolation
Originally published at recca0120.github.io If you've read the }}">Mozart overview, you know what problem it solves: WordPress plugins share a PHP …
Magento 2 Elasticsearch vs OpenSearch: Which to Use in 2026
Magento 2.4.x removed MySQL-based catalog search and made Elasticsearch (or OpenSearch) mandatory. If you're still running MySQL search, you've likely…
Magento 2 Core Web Vitals: How to Score 90+ on PageSpeed
Core Web Vitals are a Google ranking signal and a direct measure of your store's user experience. Most Magento stores score 30–50 on mobile PageSpeed.…
Best Magento 2 Performance Extensions in 2026
Performance extensions are one of the highest-ROI investments you can make on a Magento store. A 1-second improvement in load time can increase conver…
I built a Laravel queue monitoring tool because I got tired of not knowing what my jobs actually do
At some point I realized I don’t really understand what’s going on with my queues. I mean, yeah: jobs are running workers are alive logs exist somewhe…
PHP to Go: The Mental Model Shift Nobody Warns You About
Book: Observability for LLM Applications · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal…
The Audit Trail: Building a System That Remembers
Part 1 of 4 — Laravel Architecture Patterns for Production ~10 min read · Compliance · Model logging · Request tracing A transaction record had been m…
Building an XPath Query Tool in PHP — Slice XML Like a Pro
Building an XPath Query Tool in PHP — Slice XML Like a Pro A zero-dependency PHP CLI that queries XML files with XPath and outputs matching nodes as X…
phpcron: a tiny PHP CLI for poking at cron expressions
Every few months I end up staring at a crontab line wondering "is this actually going to fire when I think it will?" The usual answer is to open a bro…
Laravel Policies vs Gates: The Complete Authorization Guide
Originally published at hafiz.dev Authentication tells Laravel who you are. Authorization tells Laravel what you're allowed to do. Most developers get…
Relay vs Laravel Reverb: A Real Performance Benchmark
We built Relay because we believed a WebSocket server written in Go would handle real-world connection loads more efficiently than one running in PHP.…
I spent 10 years building a lightweight PHP framework for WEB application development
What do you think about ditching tags entirely and building web projects purely with classes? And having client-side and server-side code live togethe…
Best Practices for WordPress SSO Across Separate Domains
Designate a Master Authentication Site Pick one primary WordPress installation as the central authority for user identity. This master site handles lo…
Symfony 7 and Sylius 2.0: What Changes for Developers
Sylius 2.0 is built on Symfony 7. For developers who've been running Sylius 1.x on Symfony 5 or 6, this means a significant stack modernization. Let's…
Top 10 Mistakes When Migrating Sylius to 2.0
After helping several teams plan their Sylius 1.x → 2.0 migration, I've seen the same mistakes come up again and again. Here are the ten most common p…