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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August 29, 2026

Stop Repeating Yourself in Code Review: Build a Custom Mago Lint Rule

Check out my video on "Stop Repeating Yourself in Code Review: Build a Custom Mago Lint Rule" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/Sns4iMSa3qA

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August 28, 2026

Your Memory Is Not a System

A few years back I pushed a release to production and broke the whole site for about twenty minutes. The code was fine, and the tests passed. The problem was that our deploy had a specific order to...

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August 24, 2026

Weekly Digest - August 24, 2026

Happy Monday All! On August 17th GitHub went down for almost eight hours and took a ton of services out with it. The root cause was that the load balancers saturated, and Copilot's retry loops...

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August 21, 2026

Your Side Project Doesn't Need to Be Perfect to Ship

When I started building Unleashed Podcasts, I hardcoded a bunch of stuff that had no business being hardcoded. Values like XP for publishing an episode, streak rules, and the list of episode statuses...

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August 20, 2026

PHP 8.5 + 8.6 Release Manager Daniel Scherzer

Check out my video on "PHP 8.5 + 8.6 Release Manager Daniel Scherzer" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/fBkBBAy_ous Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community...

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August 19, 2026

GitHub Goes Down for 8 Hours, and Your Whole Team Stoped. Here's My Fix.

Like most of you, on August 17th I sat down to review the code that my team had pushed to GitHub. I opened GitHub in a browser to see the Unicorn letting me know there was a problem. Occasionally,...

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