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  • Health routing, and the check we already had

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    A framework health route that returns 200 if the application boots, next to ours that checks the database and the cache. These answer different questions and using one…

  • A job with a unique lock that outlived the job

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    A job marked unique so it cannot be queued twice, and a worker killed mid-run leaving the lock held for its full duration. The hour was chosen when…

  • Laravel 11, and the Kernel classes that are gone

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    The March release removes the HTTP and console kernels from the skeleton, which is a structural change rather than a rename. The upgrade does not require this —…

  • Per-second rate limiting, and the burst it exposed

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    Laravel 11 allows a per-second limit, and applying one to an endpoint limited to sixty a minute showed what that had actually been permitting. A per-minute limit is…

  • A constructor that validated three things and threw one exception

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    A value object rejecting an invalid input with a message that named the type rather than the problem. One check per condition and a named constructor per failure…

  • PSR-20 clocks, and the fake I stopped writing

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    A clock interface written by hand in four projects, each slightly different, replaced by the standard one. One method returning a DateTimeImmutable is a small enough interface that…

  • Reading a stream instead of file_get_contents

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    An import that read a 900 MB CSV into a string, on a worker with a 512 MB memory limit, and had been working because the file used…

  • The font library, and the licences nobody had checked

    Deep dive10 min read

    6.5 in April, fonts become something an editor can install, and a site with eleven web fonts of which four are loaded and unused.

  • register_block_type from a manifest, in one call

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    Eleven blocks, eleven register_block_type calls, eleven block.json files read from disk on every request. Eleven file reads and eleven JSON parses on every request is not a lot…

  • Composer 2.7 and the bump command

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    composer bump raises the constraints in composer.json to match what is installed, which is either exactly what you want or exactly what you do not. The distinction between…