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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The audit that started everything: how Waaseyaa designed an invariant-driven architectural review
How the Waaseyaa framework designed and ran a formal invariant-driven audit across 52 packages, what it found, and how those findings were turned into a dependency-ordered eight-milestone remediation program.
Waaseyaa governance series
A three-part series on how the Waaseyaa framework built a governed implementation platform: from invariant-driven audit through eight-milestone remediation to a batch-driven conformance engine.
Real-time messaging with Mercure SSE in PHP
How to build a real-time messaging system with Mercure server-sent events, covering threads, user blocking, and email digests.
Entity lifecycle hooks and batch operations in Waaseyaa
How to use preSave, postSave, preDelete, and postDelete hooks in Waaseyaa, with automatic pre-save validation and saveMany/deleteMany batch operations.
Managing LLM context in a real application
How Claudriel manages LLM context in production: conversation trimming, turn budgets, model fallback, prompt caching, and per-turn token telemetry.