September 21, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 21, 2026

Happy Monday All! Two of this week's pieces landed on the same theme without me planning it: good tooling ideas travel between languages. Pull requests sit because nobody owns them. Tag four...

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September 18, 2026

Make Code Review Your Default Next Task

Not a long time ago (three days ago actually), I opened a pull request (PR), tagged the appropriate reviewers, and moved on, assuming it would quickly get picked up and reviewed. Later (today), I...

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September 16, 2026

bun-php with Stanislav Khromov

Check out my video on "bun-php with Stanislav Khromov" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/JNOGcjCu7U4 Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast post.

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September 14, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 14, 2026

Happy Monday All! A team estimates a sprint at 8 points, a stakeholder multiplies by 4, promises Thursday, and everyone ends up frustrated over a date the team never agreed to. That scenario is...

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September 11, 2026

Story Points Measure Effort, Not Time

Over and over again, I've watched a sprint go sideways in the most predictable way possible. Our team pointed a sprint at 8 points and went home only to find the next morning a stakeholder had done...

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September 9, 2026

Trust Hacked with Nia Luckey

Check out my video on "Trust Hacked with Nia Luckey" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/Tn8bRbLJVOU Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast post.

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September 7, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 7, 2026

Happy Monday All! People keep saying that with AI, the programming language you pick no longer matters. I decided to test it by building a real CLI tool in Python, a language I don't actually...

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September 4, 2026

The Language Stopped Mattering. The Ecosystem Didn't.

I like to call myself a PHP developer, but I keep hearing the same claim over and over that with agentic development. It's that the underlying programming language doesn't "matter" anymore. I prompt...

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September 2, 2026

Longhorn PHP 2026 with Ian Littman

Check out my video on "Longhorn PHP 2026 with Ian Littman" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/wSotBRIIEV0 Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast...

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August 31, 2026

Weekly Digest - August 31, 2026

Happy Monday All! I once deployed in a hurry, skipped a migration step I "knew" by heart, and handed myself a 20-minute production outage. That's the whole problem with keeping a process in your...

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