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.
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Building applications with PHP: language features, versions and practices. (Page 2/8)
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Being Polyglot Is an Outcome, Not a Goal
How becoming a multi-language developer turned into a supposed goal, why it never really was one, and how I actually got there.
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.
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.
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.
Maintaining a polyglot codebase: the cost of context switching
The hidden cognitive overhead of working in multiple languages simultaneously, and how I manage it.