Setting up docs with Tailwind CSS & GitHub Pages.
To me, Tailwind CSS is one of the the most enjoyable tools to build documentation websites. It's quick, it's easy, and it gets the job done »
Type-safe stream processing in TypeScript
This post contains a lot of back-story about how this all came about, you can skip ahead if you only care about the code. In case »
Array destructuring in PHP
In my day to day job I write in a number of programming languages. The majority of my time is spent writing PHP but I very »
Being in control of time in PHP
When developers talk about the infrastructural boundaries or external dependencies they often talk about databases and third-party integration. They're the first thing we'll put behind an »
Regaining trust in your test suite with Docker.
Docker, and containerised services in general, have brought a lot to the world of software development. While not everybody is (or ever should be) using docker »
Partitioning for concurrency in synchronous business processes.
WARNING: There will be a total of 3 GIF's in this article. If that's too much for you to handle I invite you to stop reading. »
Battle Log: Symfony Routing performance considerations.
Last week I took a deep dive into Symfony's Routing Component. A project I worked on suffered from a huge performance penalty caused by a routing »
How a 20mb data-set brought down a 14gb ElasticSearch cluster.
For a client project we are using ElasticSearch (ES) as one of our read-models. The use-case was pretty straight forward and the amount of data was »
Finally, file streams, and deferred execution in PHP.
Cleaning up after yourself can be a tedious task. For example, closing file handlers after using them needs to be done. A programmer's life isn't all »
"Scaling" Vagrant with NGINX Load Balancing
A load-balanced vagrant setup, because why the hell not! Not all projects require more that one instance of your application to handle the demand. When you »