PHP 8.5 has been in my production Laravel app since March. What the pipe operator, clone with and NoDiscard actually changed, and the one thing…
Golang context past WithCancel: how WithCancelCause, WithoutCancel and AfterFunc fixed three real production bugs for me, with before and after Go code.
Eloquent's N+1 problem hid a four-second page load from me for weeks. Here is how I catch it now: strict lazy loading plus a query…
The four API design rules I actually enforce in code review: RFC 9457 error shapes, cursor pagination, idempotency keys, and additive-only changes.
async-std is discontinued and most runtime comparisons miss the point: your dependency tree already picked Tokio. Here is how I checked mine, and when smol…
I migrated a working REST API to GraphQL and regretted it. Here's how I actually choose between GraphQL and REST in 2026, N+1 traps and…
A practical look back at PHP 8.4 well into 2026: which features I kept in production, from property hooks to the new array helpers, and…
Go 1.23 range-over-func lets you skip slices you throw away. Here is how I rewrote real iterators with iter.Seq, when it helps, and when a…
Symfony vs Laravel in 2026, compared through real projects: philosophy, Eloquent vs Doctrine, tooling, release cadence, and the rule I use to pick one.
I dodged axum for a year, sure a Rust web framework would fight me on every handler. It didn't. Here's the axum setup, state, and…