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  • 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…

  • Laravel 5.2 middleware groups replaced the kernel list

    Note2 min read

    Before 5.2 the HTTP kernel had one global middleware stack, so anything needed by web routes also ran for API routes — sessions, CSRF verification and cookie encryption…

  • A deployment pipeline that runs the tests first

    Deep dive15 min read

    Deploying by rsync on a Friday afternoon, and what replaced it: lint, test, build, stage, promote — with a rollback that is the same mechanism rather than a…

  • preg_replace_callback_array for several patterns at once

    Note1 min read

    Applying several regular expressions with different callbacks meant chaining preg_replace_callback() calls, each re-scanning the whole subject — three patterns, three passes. Patterns are applied in the order given…