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  • The shutdown hook runs after the response is sent

    Note1 min read

    shutdown is the last action WordPress fires, and by then the output has already gone to the client — so it is the right place for bookkeeping and…

  • Generators can return a value as well as yield

    Note2 min read

    A generator yields a sequence, and until PHP 7 that was all it could produce — so a function streaming rows had no way to also report how…

  • Extracting a service without a rewrite

    Deep dive9 min read

    The reporting code had one caller and a six-hour test run. Finding the seam, dealing with the shared schema honestly, and routing traffic gradually rather than switching.

  • Composer scripts see vendor/bin on the path

    Note1 min read

    Scripts in composer.json run with vendor/bin prepended to PATH, so the tools do not need a path prefix — which is why “test”: “phpunit” works and the same…

  • Collections: pipe and tap keep a chain readable

    Note1 min read

    A collection chain reads well until it needs one step that is not a collection method — a log line, a total computed from the whole set —…

  • Throwable catches what catch (Exception) missed

    Note1 min read

    PHP 7 turned most fatal errors into thrown objects, but they do not extend Exception — they extend Error, and both implement Throwable. Every existing catch (Exception $e)…

  • Redis beyond caching: locks, counters and rate limits

    Deep dive9 min read

    The cache server was already there doing one job out of four. A lock that expires, a release that checks it still owns the lock, and a sliding-window…

  • yield from delegates without a loop

    Note1 min read

    Composing generators without yield from means a wrapper loop that yields each item from the inner one, which works and costs a function frame per item on top…

  • composer validate belongs in CI

    Note1 min read

    A composer.json edited by hand and a lock file regenerated on a different machine drift apart quietly, and the first symptom is usually a deploy installing something nobody…

  • Laravel 5.3 notifications unified the channels

    Note2 min read

    Sending the same event by email, SMS and a database record meant three call sites and three formats to keep in step. 5.3 makes the notification one class…