BlogFlockI was recently building something that was taking date input from an HTML form field, and casting it to a PHP DateTimeImmutable. I was then comparing that to another date, and got thrown off during testing when I compared the resulting instance to new DateTimeImmutable('today'); the instances were…
I'm doing a little DB work recently, and needing to choose how to represent certain data in the database. For a few fields, ENUM would be the correct choice, but there's a possibility I would need to expand the ENUM later to add values.
My question: is this safe?
The…
I've been using the experimental "display: masonry" CSS for my gallery and a few other areas of my website for over a year (with a fallback to standard grid columns). However, I noticed in the last few months that my browser was no longer honoring it, and finally…
Welcome to PhpStorm 2026.1! This release brings new PhpStorm MCP tools, new third-party agents inside your IDE, support for Git worktrees, and lots of other productivity-enhancing features for PHP and Laravel developers.
In PhpStorm 2025.2, we added an integrated MCP server for third-party coding…
I have a new project where we will be integrating with a third party API that is currently being written. Due to Conway's Law, we are being sent new versions of the OpenAPI spec as a set of JSON files via email.
I quite like seeing the HTML rendering of…
Recently I discovered that this code passed our PHPStan level 10 checks:
use http\Exception\InvalidArgumentException; // ... throw new InvalidArgumentException;
I was surprised as http\Exception\InvalidArgumentException is not a class in our system. While cooling, I discovered that there's an http PHP extension and it appears that PHPStan has a stub for…
Today has been a struggle entirely due to my own internal negative thoughts and feelings about impacting events that are outside my control.
Navigating this to come out stronger rather than letting it consume my self-belief and confidence isn’t easy, especially at the time. I’m not worse at my job…
A few months back, I purchased a Beelink EQ14 mini server for my homelab. One thing that has frustrated me has been that rebooting or even powering on... has required I have either my keyboard or my monitor plugged in (I haven't been able to determine exactly which one yet).…
I've been using Helm recently as part of a new product offering, and as a way to deploy my various websites. Helm allows providing values to the templates in a Helm chart via one or more values files, which are provided via the option -f. It's often useful to…
Somehow, I got a file in my tree that started with a null byte. I only discovered it because git status was noting it wasn't added to my branch, and wanted to know if I wanted to add it.
No, no, I did not. I wanted to delete it.
But,…
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