Writing

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.

SSI can still be a useful server-side composition seam for legacy migrations, but today it should be treated as a narrow tool with clear boundaries, fallbacks, observability, and trusted upstreams.