June 22, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 22, 2026

Summer is finally here! I wrote a LinkedIn post about ORMs and got some pushback. The most common objection was that if you skip Eloquent and you're opening yourself up to SQL injection. That's...

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June 19, 2026

Stop Passing File Paths as Strings: A Quick Introduction to SplFileInfo

A while back, I was building a small file processing script. It took an upload directory, looped through the files, and did different things depending on the file type. It's most likely something...

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June 17, 2026

Why skipping Eloquent doesn't mean skipping SQL injection protection

Check out my video on "Why skipping Eloquent doesn't mean skipping SQL injection protection" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/gAVfQhPw8Do

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June 15, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 15, 2026

Three posts this week about PHP's SPL, git workflows, and podcasting. PHP has shipped SplQueue, SplStack, SplMinHeap, and friends since version 5.1, and most of us have been writing the same...

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June 12, 2026

Stop Reinventing Data Structures: PHP's SPL Already Has What You Need

A few years ago, I needed a queue. Nothing fancy, just a list of tasks that my script would process one at a time in the order they came in. First in, first out. Classic queue behavior, so I knew I...

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June 10, 2026

How to use git rebase without breaking your team's history

Check out my video on "How to use git rebase without breaking your team's history" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/5n2VZS_YPv0

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June 8, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 8, 2026

Two posts this week. One for the podcasters, one for the PHP developers (and if you're both, it's your lucky week). If your episodes keep falling apart, I'd bet it's not a motivation problem. It's...

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June 5, 2026

Stop Writing Recursive Directory Functions Use RecursiveDirectoryIterator Instead

A few years back, I spent an entire afternoon debugging a recursive function that was supposed to scan a project directory and list every PHP file. It worked great on small folders. Then I pointed it...

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June 1, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 1, 2026

Happy Monday all! Three posts this week covering podfade, AI-assisted development, and Git workflows. Most podcasters who quit tell themselves they lost their passion, but I think the real issue...

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May 29, 2026

Stop Letting Claude Search Your Codebase

I kept burning tokens watching Claude search through my repository for information it already could have had. The pattern was always the same. I'd ask Claude to add a feature, and before it wrote a...

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