Building Applications with PHP in 2026: State of the Ecosystem
The real state of PHP in 2026: language maturity, ecosystem health, and why the 'it's dead' narrative is still wrong.
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Eleven Years In: A Developer's Shifting Priorities
A reflection on how my priorities as a developer have shifted over eleven years of this journal — from speed to resilience, from code to decisions.
The Changing Craft of Writing Code in the Age of AI
How much of writing code have AI tools taken over, and what is left for the developer? A reflection on the shifting craft.
Mentorship and knowledge sharing: growing by helping others grow
A career post on why mentorship is not a sacrifice but one of the most effective tools for a senior developer's own growth.
From Idea to Three Platforms: My End-to-End Feature Delivery Flow
The mature, repeatable process I follow when shipping a feature across API, web, and mobile simultaneously.
PHP 8.5 is on the way: the maturing face of the language
PHP 8.5 isn't out yet, but reading through the proposals on the table reveals how a language evolves over more than a decade.