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Bumping a PHP monorepo to 8.5: the mechanics
Sixty-seven packages, one CI matrix, one PHPStan target. What it takes to actually move the floor.
PHP 8.5 restraint: features we did not adopt
An upgrade is also a decision about what not to use. Property hooks, the pipe operator, and an array_find pass we mostly rejected.
Spec Kitty mission lifecycle: a domain modeling pass through Giiken
What a full Spec Kitty mission actually looks like end to end: spec, plan, tasks, implement, review, merge.
The PHP 8.5 deprecation sweep: from 34 warnings to zero
Three deprecation categories. Twenty-nine call sites. A test corpus that surfaces them all.
Hugo blog shortcodes: adding a visual component system to PaperMod
Six Hugo shortcodes that give your PaperMod blog callouts, steps, pull quotes, stats, before/after comparisons, and CTAs — built in one vibe coding session.
Day One of the Content Pipeline: What Broke and What I Fixed
First-run lessons from an automated content pipeline. Noise, human-only merges, and a backwards production step surfaced in 24 hours.
Remember when server-side rendering was just rendering?
How Waaseyaa’s SSR package renders HTML the way PHP always has, with Twig templates, field formatters, and a theme chain loader, no JavaScript runtime required.
Automate your content pipeline with GitHub Actions and Issues
Build a daily content mining pipeline that scans your repos and queues post ideas as GitHub issues.
Build a free links page with GitHub Pages
How to turn your GitHub profile into a links page you own, with zero dependencies and no monthly fee.
Domain routing in Waaseyaa: replacing a giant dispatcher with small routers
How Waaseyaa splits a monolithic controller dispatcher into domain-specific routers using a two-method interface.