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A JSON column that had become a schema

Deep diveSeptember 20, 20239 min read

A settings column with forty keys, four of which are queried, and a WHERE on a JSON path scanning two million rows.

An enum with an interface, and the match I stopped writing

NoteSeptember 18, 20232 min read

The same match on an enum, in four places, each returning a different aspect of the same thing. Moving the match onto the enum means adding a case…

A trait with a constant, and why I still avoid traits

NoteAugust 24, 20232 min read

Constants in traits arrived in 8.2 and the first thing I did with the feature was decide not to use it. The method conflict rules have an escape…

A benchmark that measured the benchmark

NoteAugust 24, 20232 min read

A microbenchmark showing one implementation four times faster than another, where the difference was the loop. Three separate errors in six lines: an unused result, a shared warm…

Moving a fifteen-year-old site into the site editor

Deep diveAugust 21, 202315 min read

A theme first written in 2008, 61 template files, and an editor who cannot change a footer without a deploy.

The N+1 that only appeared in production

Deep diveJuly 29, 202310 min read

An endpoint at 40 ms locally and 2.1 seconds in production. Nine hundred queries on one request, and three on the same request in a test.

Patterns as a deliverable, and the editor who stopped asking us

Deep diveJune 27, 20239 min read

A request for a new landing page layout, for the ninth time. Every campaign page a developer ticket, for work that is arrangement.

Pennant, and the feature flag that lived in a config file

NoteJune 21, 20232 min read

Eleven flags in a config array, changed by deploying, and two of them dead since 2021. The persistence is what a config flag cannot give you: a percentage…

register_rest_route with a schema, and the validation it gives free

NoteJune 13, 20232 min read

Hand-written validation in a REST callback, when the argument definition can do it and produce documentation at the same time. The argument schema validates before the callback runs,…

OpenTelemetry in PHP, and auto-instrumentation that was not

NoteJune 7, 20232 min read

The PHP SDK reached 1.0 this year and the auto-instrumentation is thinner than the equivalent in other runtimes. The gap is the whole problem — a trace that…