Infrastructure code is edited rarely and by different people each time, so it accumulates whitespace disagreements faster than application code. The point is not tidiness but that a…
A trait could carry methods, properties and abstract methods, and not constants, which meant a trait defining behaviour around a constant had to document rather than declare it.…
A stack trace includes argument values, so an exception thrown anywhere below a login method has historically printed the password into a log. This closes a leak that…
The block editor fetches patterns from a remote directory, which is a network request on an admin page load and a dependency on somebody else’s uptime. On a…
Assigning to an undeclared property has silently created one since PHP 4, which means every typo in a property name has been a working assignment to the wrong…
utf8_encode converts from ISO-8859-1 specifically, which is almost never the encoding the input was actually in. The double-encoding it produces is the single most common source of mojibake…
InnoDB full-text ignores words shorter than three characters and words appearing in more than half the rows, and both are configurable only at the server level. Changing innodb_ft_min_token_size…
A subscriber debugging a missing event has no visibility into whether it was sent, and the alternative to a delivery log is a support ticket. Returning an excerpt…