Four months ago my goal was clear: to feel good with myself again when I hit my 40th birthday. It was true challenge, because last year I barely did any activities, I gained weight and I did not look and feel well. Hereās my story I am truly proud of š! ...
Messenger: consume all transports on Symfony 6.4
Itās hard to believe, but the --all option for the messenger:consume command in Symfony was unavailable until version 7.1 ā on lower versions list of transports must be passed explicitly to the executed command. But if you need this, itās really easy to port this feature to 6.4! ...
Git Rebase: why you should use it
While working with Git version control system you have quite freedom about how you work with commits and branches. But there are universal practices you should know to keep your repository clean. How rebase can help you with this? ...
Final word about `unfinalize`
Recently Iāve created pull request to #PHP-CS-Fixer that aimed to prevent installing stevebauman/unfinalize along with friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer, effectively blocking Fixer to be installed as a dev dependency for that tool. That escalated quickly š ! ...
Dockerfile: runtime definition
A Dockerfile is to a project what sheet music is to a song - it ensures that the same operations are always performed, in the same order, with the same result. ...
Docker for local development
Docker has been in the developersā world for years, but for many people it is still something remote and enigmatic. In a series of posts, I would like to introduce both theory and practice - you will find out how Docker can help you in your daily work, how to prepare an environment based on Docker and how to use this environment. ...
Organising work in GitHub and Gitlab
In everyday work with code, it is important not to waste time on operational matters. However, how not to get lost in your and other peopleās reports and contributions? How do you know what to look at? How not to miss anything? Both GitHub and Gitlab have their own activity monitoring mechanisms - letās take a look at them! ...
Saeghe: new package manager for PHP
Today, I came across Saeghe ā new package manager for PHP. Official site describes it as āmodern PHP package manager that boosts your codeā, letās check it out! ...
Composer: binary-only Docker images
Few months ago I came with an idea to build Composerās Docker images, but containing only binary file. Yesterday my pull request was merged, and now itās possible to use such images in your own Docker builds as the simplest way to get Composer binary in your own image! š ...
Drawbacks behind Laravel Facades
There were many discussions if #Laravelās facades implement Gang of Fourās Facade Pattern, but I think it does not matter at this point - the Laravel team wonāt change naming convention anyway. Naming is not a problem, I see other issues with facades - letās look at it! ...