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. Here’s my story I am truly proud of 😎! ...

It’s hard to believe, but the --all option for the messenger:consume command in Symfony was unavailable until version 7.1 — on lower versions list of transports must be passed explicitly to the executed command. But if you need this, it’s really easy to port this feature to 6.4! ...

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? ...

Recently I’ve 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 😅! ...

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 has been in the developers’ 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. ...

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 people’s 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 - let’s take a look at them! ...

Today, I came across Saeghe — new package manager for PHP. Official site describes it as “modern PHP package manager that boosts your code”, let’s check it out! ...

Few months ago I came with an idea to build Composer’s Docker images, but containing only binary file. Yesterday my pull request was merged, and now it’s possible to use such images in your own Docker builds as the simplest way to get Composer binary in your own image! 😁 ...