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  • The anti-corruption layer that needed a second mapper

    Note2 min read

    One supplier, two API versions running simultaneously during their own migration, and a translation layer built for one shape. The layer had assumed one upstream shape at a…

  • A year of an assistant in the editor, measured

    Deep dive14 min read

    A year of using a model-backed assistant, and an attempt to say something specific about it. Every claim about this is a demonstration or a complaint.

  • Managing WordPress entirely through Composer

    Deep dive15 min read

    turkerdev/wp-composer, and an install where nothing is committed except a lock file. Core, themes and plugins as dependencies.

  • A build with no bundler

    Deep dive9 min read

    A site with 18 KB of JavaScript and a build pipeline sized for something larger. What a bundler provides, listed, and which of it is needed.

  • A Node script that stayed a Node script

    Note2 min read

    A build tool in JavaScript inside a PHP repository, examined for whether it should be rewritten and left alone. A tool written in the language of the artefacts…

  • Symfony 7.3, and a component used without the framework

    Note1 min read

    One component in an application that does not use the framework, which is what the components are for and is easy to forget. A migration tool that must…

  • The PSR-18 client I wrote for one API

    Deep dive10 min read

    A supplier API with a signing scheme, a rate limit and a pagination style of its own, and the same four concerns implemented in three places.

  • A rate limit in nginx that should have been in the application

    Note1 min read

    A limit keyed on the client address at the edge, protecting an endpoint whose consumers are authenticated and identifiable. The edge knows the address and the application knows…

  • A dead letter queue that reached zero

    Note2 min read

    A dead letter queue that had held between forty and eight thousand messages since 2019, empty for the first time. An empty dead letter queue is not the…

  • Two years of query logs, read once

    Deep dive10 min read

    A slow query log rotating for two years and never aggregated, and performance work driven by whoever complained loudest.