Articles I found worth reading, with a short note on each.
GenAI coding agents enable a team to generate code rapidly. However, each team member is powered by a 20 W organic processing substrate, and there’s a limit to the rate at which…
Run php artisan doctor to check your Laravel app's environment, config, database, queue, and storage, then let it auto-fix what it safely can. The post Laravel Doctor: Diagnose…
JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2026.2 with a new Laravel tool window, a FileReference attribute for PHP, PHP 8.5 pipe operator support, and an agent skills manager. The post…
cpx 2.0 is a full rewrite of the Composer package executor. It runs a command from any Composer package without adding it to your project, prefers the binaries your project…
You can follow every enterprise best practice. You can use Clean Architecture, some type of layered architecture, event-driven architecture, microservices, or whatever else is…
I was randomly drifting through Github trending PHP repositories, and checking how popular projects use `rector.php`. A lot of them use it extensively, with [prepared…
Easy Coding Standard got a [new release last week](/blog/ecs-13-2-lighter-smarter-more-fun-for-large-legacy-projects) with a couple of cool features and new dead docblock rules…
Is software engineering solved? Depends who you ask. People selling LLMs proclaim that programming, software architecture, everything has been solved. (Apart from making their…
Categorize each piece of code and then define conventions for each category, using Oxlint for enforcement.
I was recently asked this question on LinkedIn. My short answer: yes. But the more interesting question is why, and why AI might make them more relevant, not less. Reframing the…