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.
Waaseyaa
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.
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.
What a real AI-assisted PR looks like
PR
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.
Building an Ojibwe Crossword Puzzle for Minoo
How Minoo’s crossword game teaches Anishinaabemowin through daily puzzles, Elder-authored clues, and a three-layer learning design.