Stefan Zweifel shares how he reorganized his dotfiles into a minimal setup, split private config into a separate repo, and streamlined setup and Brewfile syncing with a few small scripts. Read more
This week, development activity focused on various improvements, such as enhancing the DX of AssetMapper in debug mode and allowing developers to disable redirects on logout. There were also proposals to improve Messenger with a new command and to add pipe…
Over the years, I've built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It's a backup of every terminal tool and configuration I rely on, and it means I can set up a brand new Mac from scratch in about five minutes. Colleagues at Spatie use it as a starting point for their own setups too. Let me walk you through what's in there. I'll cover the tools and tricks first, with installation and…
Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving from Zig to Rust, after years of fighting memory safety issues in a codebase that mixes GC and manual memory management. He also shares how Claude helped make a mechanical, test-suite-driven rewrite realistic without pausing feature work for a year. Read more
Video version at https://youtu.be/REjWp_2Dt30 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides us with a set of basic methods to describe what our request is doing. Generally, we’re working with GET or POST requests, but these have limitations on them that you won’t be aware of until you’ve run headlong into one of them. The best example is […] The post HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 9, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon | Guest: Holly Schilling A PHP RFC for extension methods that PHP definitely should have had by now. 👋 Holly Schilling, Uninvited but Welcome Holly was originally just planning to heckle from the Discord chat room. She had about 45 minutes’ […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09 appeared first on PHP Architect.
For twenty-plus years, “deploying PHP” meant the same uneasy triangle: Apache or Nginx in front, PHP-FPM behind, and a configuration file glued between them that nobody on the team really understood. FrankenPHP is the first genuinely different answer that stack has had in a long time, and after a couple of years of steady releases […] The post FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance appeared first on PHP Architect.
CLAUDE.md isn't documentation, it's working memory. A practical approach to keeping it lean and focused instead of letting it grow into an unreadable 300-line dumping ground. Read more
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Agentic commerce is a buzzy term, but is still pretty abstract for developers asking what they can actually build today. This post explains MPP through a working Laravel example, and introduces the new square1/laravel-mpp package. Read more
Caleb Porzio shipped Livewire v4 in January 2026, and it’s not a minor bump. The release introduces islands architecture, single-file components as the default format, scoped styles, built-in drag-and-drop sorting, and a suite of optimistic UI directives that make your interfaces feel instant. If you’ve been building with Livewire v3, the upgrade path is smooth […] The post Livewire 4’s Islands Architecture: Build Faster UIs Without the JavaScript Overhead appeared first on PHP Architect.
Every year I dread coming back from vacation not because of the work, but because I have no idea where I left off. A failing test, a well-written TODO, and a slow first day back are all you need to ease back in. Read more
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A practical deep dive into UUIDs, ULIDs, and Sqids, from generation models and sorting behavior to database storage, public IDs, and security trade-offs. Read more
This week, Symfony released Twig 3.28.0, with improvements to macros and the sandbox. In addition, we published a case study on using Symfony in the industrial sector. Lastly, we proposed a redesign of the exception page for Symfony applications. Symfony…