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A year of an assistant in the editor, measured

Deep diveSeptember 3, 202514 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 diveAugust 21, 202515 min read

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

An enum with a from() that had to become tryFrom()

NoteAugust 5, 20251 min read

A backed enum hydrated from a database column, and a row written in 2019 with a value the enum does not have. from() throwing is correct behaviour and…

Symfony 7.3, and a component used without the framework

NoteJune 27, 20251 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 diveJune 26, 202510 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 generic collection annotation that the analyser could not follow

NoteJune 20, 20252 min read

A template annotation that was correct, and a call site the analyser widened to mixed anyway. A class name in a variable is where the type system ends,…

An interface requiring a property, six months on

NoteJune 11, 20252 min read

Interfaces that declare properties rather than accessors, half a year after 8.4, and the one place it changed a design. The gain is that an interface can now…

The endpoint that was slow for one customer

Deep diveJune 4, 20259 min read

A healthy p95 and one customer for whom the endpoint takes four seconds. An aggregate metric that averages away the only case that matters.

6.8, and bcrypt for new password hashes

NoteMay 20, 20252 min read

WordPress changes its password hashing in April, and the migration completes only as fast as users log in. A rehash-on-login migration has no completion date, which is the…

A package I published, and the API design I got wrong twice

Deep diveMay 19, 202516 min read

turkerdev/php-figma-api, a typed client for a third-party REST API, and two design mistakes that only appear once somebody else uses it.