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! ...
Composer: binary-only Docker images
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! 😁 ...
Drawbacks behind Laravel Facades
There were many discussions if #Laravel’s facades implement Gang of Four’s Facade Pattern, but I think it does not matter at this point - the Laravel team won’t change naming convention anyway. Naming is not a problem, I see other issues with facades - let’s look at it! ...
New in 🐘 PHP 8.2
PHP 8.2 is set to be released at the end of 2022, but final date will be announced at some point in the future. In this post I will evaluate all the features, improvements and deprecations. I’ll try to keep this article up-to-date with RFCs that will be accepted after publishing. ...
Code Review: good practices
What makes Code Review process good? What should you do, and what you should not? Let me share with you my experience on this 🙂 ...
Gitlab CI Workflows (PoC)
Today I came across fantastic idea that was implemented as Proof of Concept in Gitlab some time ago: CI Workflows! I’m pretty excited about it and really hope it will be shipped soon 😁 ...
Laravel Pint: a study of ambivalence
In recent days Laravel Pint was introduced and caused havoc of ambivalence - some love it, some hate it. Personally I have mixed feelings about it, and I wanted to share my thoughts with the other developers. ...
PHPStan in virtualised environments
PHPStan 1.7.15 brings small, but helpful feature: support for relative paths in editorUrl for virtualised environments. It’s even better when it makes you a repository collaborator - yes, it’s my initiative! 🥹 ...
Referencing sections in Gitlab CI
Gitlab CI definition might get really complex. In order to reduce redundancy you can use many useful features and syntax sugar, like !reference. ...
A Year at GetResponse
I really don’t know when it happened, but it’s been a year since I joined #GetResponse as Software Architect 😵 It was an intense and fruitful time worth summing up! ...