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My writing, videos and posts across platforms on software architecture, PHP, DevOps and product development.
Resolving an Invoice Number Collision in an E-Invoice Integration
Two workers produced the same invoice number in production. A log of how I resolved the race condition vs. legal gap dilemma in a real project.
AI-assisted self-review — what it speeds up, where it falls short
Three months ago I built a tool to audit my own diffs. This post is not about the 'why' but the 'how much': which workflow layers it plugs into, the numbers behind the speedup, the bug patterns it keeps catching — and where it hits its limits.
Asking a Tool to Review My Own Diff — Why I Built CommitBrief
One afternoon I ran headfirst into the limits of self-review, so I wrote a tool that audits my own diff right from the terminal: CommitBrief. A note on why I built it, how it works, and what problem it actually solves.
Which Methodology for Which Project? — Notes from an 18-Year Developer
Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid? That's the wrong question. A decision matrix from 18 years of production experience, three real case studies, and a way out of methodology religion.
Is PHP Dead? The 2026 Picture, by the Numbers
A view from 18 years of PHP development — the 2026 state of PHP through W3Techs, Stack Overflow, JetBrains, and Packagist data, including the language's often-ignored weaknesses.