How I stopped hardcoding business rules in PHP - and built a rule engine to fix it
Every PHP developer knows this situation: a client calls and says "I want free shipping for VIP customers on weekends, but only if the cart total is a
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Every PHP developer knows this situation: a client calls and says "I want free shipping for VIP customers on weekends, but only if the cart total is a
Once we represent data as numbers and vectors, a natural question arises: how do we tell whether two objects are similar or very different? Machine le
Auto-Sync Medium Posts to WordPress (Draft-First, Idempotent) WordPress still wins when you need categories, plugins, schema, and URLs you
Last month a security researcher emailed me a proof-of-concept that quietly published a video to the front page of DailyWatch using nothing but an HTM
FOUNDATION: What Makes a Good API? The Core Philosophy An API is a contract. It's not just code — it's a promise to every develo
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Building a ReAct Chat Agent with the Laravel AI SDK This tutorial walks through how to build a streaming, chat assistant on top of the Lar
If you've ever needed to send WhatsApp messages from a Laravel app — order confirmations, OTP codes, shipping updates — you know how painful it can be
2574. Left and Right Sum Differences Difficulty: Easy Topics: Mid Level, Array, Prefix Sum, Weekly Contest 334 You are given a 0-indexed integer ar
Payroll software looks simple from the outside. You multiply hours by rate, subtract taxes, and send a number to a bank. That's it. Then you actually
I run engineering at Squirrly, where we operate a portfolio of WordPress sites. The "Wordfence or WP Ghost?" question comes up constantly, and it's f
I recently published a small Symfony bundle called Request To Form Bundle. I have been using Symfony for a while now, and in several REST API project
"I downloaded wp-cli.phar, uploaded it to ~/bin/wp, SSH'd in, and ran wp. Got -bash: wp: command not found. The file is right there. Why?" If you've
E-commerce operations live and die by data velocity. For enterprise engineering teams running Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce), extracting transactional ord
3753. Total Waviness of Numbers in Range II Difficulty: Hard Topics: Senior Staff, Math, Dynamic Programming, Biweekly Contest 170 You are given tw
This quick tutorial shows how to install ASDF Version Manager on Arch Linux and use it to install PHP 8.5. Install Required Dependencies F
Laravel 13's recent release didn't introduce any breaking changes or headline-grabbing framework overhauls. Instead, they delivered a collection of pr
I built a Symfony bundle this week that centralises external API integrations under a hexagonal architecture: IntegrationEngine. The problem it solve
How to Use OpenAI API with PHP (Complete Guide, 2026) PHP powers a large part of the web, but most AI tutorials focus on Python. This guide
WordPress handles errors like it is 2005. Permission denied? White screen with black text. Expired nonce? Same white screen. Fatal PHP error? Literal