Versioning the representation rather than the code, so the business logic exists once. Duplicating the controller is the obvious move and it duplicates the authorisation, the loading and…
Exposing an array property publicly for reading felt unsafe until the copy semantics were the point rather than an accident. PHP arrays are values, so reading one gives…
Laravel 12 moves its starter kits out of the framework, which made them worth reading as a reference rather than as a dependency. A starter kit is for…
A directory of tests excluded from every tool since 2023, examined and removed along with what they tested. Three independent checks — coverage to find what the tests…
A third consecutive annual major, each cheaper than the last, which is what doing the first one properly buys. The cost of an annual major is almost entirely…
Return type checking for conditional expressions, which resolved a pattern that had needed an assertion since 2021. Overloads with a boolean discriminant are a common shape and the…
A category tree walker that recursed to a depth of eleven in development and to two hundred in production, on data nobody had constrained. The production data had…
A page that shipped 140 KB in 2024 and 18 KB in 2025, accounted for honestly. The largest saving is the widget nobody could convert, deferred rather than…