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A compiler pass, and the one time you need one

NoteJune 20, 20182 min read

The container is built once and then frozen, and a compiler pass is the hook that runs during that build — which is the only moment you can…

The .env file Symfony 4 commits, and the one it does not deploy

NoteJune 15, 20182 min read

Symfony 4 puts a .env file in the repository root and reads it through Dotenv, which is convenient locally and is not how the framework expects production to…

The N+1 that does not appear in the query log

Deep diveJune 14, 201810 min read

340 queries on a page showing twenty rows, and none of them are slow. Every one is under the threshold, which is why the slow log has nothing…

Disabling Gutenberg for one post type only

NoteJune 8, 20181 min read

A site where the new editor is right for pages and wrong for a heavily customised product type needs the decision per type rather than globally. This is…

Retry an HTTP call with exponential backoff in PHP

SnippetMay 22, 20181 min read

Autowiring, and what the container is allowed to guess

Deep diveMay 17, 201810 min read

services.yaml went from four hundred lines to twelve. Where the guessing stops is the part worth knowing before it stops in production.

A generator can return a value, and getReturn reads it

NoteMay 17, 20182 min read

A generator yields a sequence, and it can also return a single value at the end — which is how a streaming reader reports a summary without breaking…

Composer 1.7 and the platform check you can now write down

NoteMay 15, 20182 min read

A machine with PHP 7.2 installing dependencies for a server running 7.1 resolves to packages the server cannot run, and the failure happens on deploy rather than on…

A queue table is not a queue

Deep diveMay 7, 201810 min read

SELECT … WHERE processed = 0 LIMIT 1, and two workers taking the same row. SKIP LOCKED makes the table viable; it does not make it a broker.

A wp-cli command of your own is one class and one register call

NoteApril 26, 20182 min read

Anything run more than twice against a site — a reindex, a backfill, a report — is better as a command than as a page in the admin…