Writing

Git uses the words ours and theirs from the point of view of the operation it is currently performing. That is why they mean one thing during merge and can feel reversed during rebase.

Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. - Piet Hein

A historical PHP walkthrough of Universal Analytics Measurement Protocol, preserved with clear guidance to use the current GA4 protocol today.

Who needs all those paid certificate providers while we have such a brilliant project as Let's Encrypt?

Books were hard to get when I was a kid. They were expensive and, on top of that, in short supply. Many people owned no books at all; some copied them by hand. But there were always plenty of books in our family, and it was shocking to me to see a room with no books in it.

Reducer composition is still the core Redux idea, even though modern Redux code usually starts with Redux Toolkit, configureStore, and createSlice.

I have never been really good at writing. I won some rewards in my childhood. I wrote some shitty verses in my youth. None of those achievements really were significant for the universe around me. It was all like a silly child play with the symbols I barely know.

A practical guide to application configuration: keep deploy-specific values out of code, parse and validate configuration at startup, make precedence explicit, and treat secrets as secrets.

PHP CLI can read environment variables directly, but PHP-FPM intentionally clears worker environments by default. Here is how to pass only the variables your application actually needs.

Linux can report “No space left on device” even when df -h shows plenty of free disk space. One common cause is inode exhaustion: the filesystem can still store bytes, but it cannot create more files.