static-analysis – Page 2 – Türker Yıldırım

The dependency graph generated from source, not from memory

NoteNovember 6, 20251 min read

A module diagram maintained by hand since 2023, compared against the graph the code actually forms. Four edges that do not exist are aspirational and six that are…

Boundaries drawn on a whiteboard, and the test that checks them

Deep diveNovember 4, 202510 min read

A module diagram from 2023 and a codebase that has moved since. A diagram everybody references and nobody has checked.

Ten years of a codebase, read in one week

Deep diveOctober 9, 202510 min read

A decade of an application, and a week spent reading it rather than changing it. Decisions re-litigated because nobody knows what is already there.

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.

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.

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…

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.

A pipeline that deploys on merge, and the four gates before it

Deep diveApril 18, 202510 min read

Eight deploys a week performed by a person, an hour after merge, by whoever was free. Continuous deployment needs confidence rather than automation.

Laravel 12, and a starter kit we did not use

Deep diveMarch 19, 20258 min read

A major release in February that is deliberately almost nothing, and an upgrade guide that fits on a page.

PHPUnit 12, and the tests we deleted instead

Deep diveMarch 13, 20259 min read

A two-hour upgrade, and a directory of 188 tests excluded from every tool since 2023 and running on every push.