How to install PHP on Windows using Winget
Installing, Updating, and removing PHP on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2025 made with `winget`.
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PHP 8.4 Installation and Upgrade guide for Ubuntu and Debian
A guide for Debian and Ubuntu on how to install PHP 8.4 on a new server or how to upgrade an existing PHP setup to PHP 8.4.
How to fix `mysql_native_password` not loaded errors on MySQL 8.4
How to fix the `SQLSTATE[HY000] [1524] Plugin 'mysql_native_password' is not loaded` errors caused in MySQL 8.4 no longer enabling the `mysql_native_password` plugin by default.
How to fix PHP Curl HTTPS Certificate Authority issues on Windows
On Windows, HTTPS requests made with the Curl extension can fail because Curl has no root certificate list to validate the server certificates. This article discusses the secure…
Your Brain on Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
A few days before writing this post, I shared my thoughts about this topic on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and Mastodon. The top engagement was on X/Twitter, with LinkedIn second, and…
Thoughts on Dynamic Consistency Boundary
“Hi Oskar, have you ever given DCB any attention?” I got that question on Discord recently. I replied: “Yes, I did, what’s the question…
Sharing is (not always) caring. PgBouncer pooling modes in practice
The sad thing about programming is that eventually we reach production; the closer we get, the nastier things get. Some people start asking…
Open Source, a relic, a charity or still the thing?
A friend asked me recently whether there is any sense in doing Open Source now. My answer was the same as always. I see three options.…
Start Small, Grow Big: how to pick the first feature for Event Sourcing
Let’s say we did the hard part. We read up on Event Sourcing, even here on my blog; we did a modelling workshop, we got the nods around the…
We all wanted to be Netflix, who do we want to be next?
I recently realised that there’s an aspect of GenAI tooling that’s not spoken about much, and I think that’s important to where we are going…
Fixing bugs in Event Sourcing is hard, for real?
Every system ends up with bad data. Some of it comes from integrations, some from users doing things nobody predicted, and a good part of it…