Asking a Tool to Review My Own Diff — Why I Built CommitBrief
One afternoon I hit the limits of self-review, so I wrote a tool that audits my own diff without leaving the terminal: CommitBrief.
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Which Methodology for Which Project? — Notes from an 18-Year Developer
Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid? Wrong question. A decision matrix from 18 years of production, three real cases, and a way out of methodology religion.
Is PHP Dead? The 2026 Picture, by the Numbers
A view from 18 years of PHP: the 2026 state of the language through W3Techs, Stack Overflow, JetBrains and Packagist data — weaknesses included.
Git in Production: A Senior Engineer's Practical Guide
From workflow selection to bug hunting with bisect, rebase discipline, worktrees, and signed commits — things I noticed after years of using Git.
PHP Constants, Enums, and Readonly: One Decision Tree for 10 Tools
From define to asymmetric visibility — a three-axis mental model and a concrete decision matrix for getting immutability right in modern PHP.
Twelve Years of This Journal: Looking Back
Everything written in this journal from 2014 to 2026, and the story of growth it tells — and a closing.