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Posts: 11

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Vendor locked

https://stitcher.io/blog/vendor-locked

Published: October 1, 2025 00:00

I reckon not many people know this of me, but my programming career started as a frontend developer. Well, of course, that depends on whether you consider "HTML and CSS" to be "programming languages", but I would say yes — they are. I actually really liked…

What's your motivator?

https://stitcher.io/blog/whats-your-motivator

Published: September 29, 2025 00:00

Over five years ago, I began a new project. I called it "Aggregate", and it was meant to be a community-driven RSS feed. People could suggest content from all over the internet, and it would all end up in one big aggregation feed. I kept working on it over…

Impact charts

https://stitcher.io/blog/impact-charts

Published: September 11, 2025 00:00

A little over a year ago, I was sitting in the doctor's office when she told me I had to stop and take a break. I was close to burning out, and now was the time to make changes. One thing that played a role in getting to that point was the feeling of…

Things I wish I knew

https://stitcher.io/blog/things-i-wish-i-knew

Published: September 10, 2025 00:00

Over the years, I've blogged a lot about my journey as a professional programmer: some wins, some losses, and many lessons learned. I always got a lot of positive response on those blogposts, so much so that I decided to write a book about the topic of…

Readonly or private(set)

https://stitcher.io/blog/readonly-or-private-set

Published: August 3, 2025 00:00

PHP is a mess. Let's just put that up front. I love it, but some parts are just… so frustrating. One good example is having to choose between readonly properties or properties that are privately writeable. I'll show you why. Readonly properties were added…

A year with property hooks

https://stitcher.io/blog/a-year-of-property-hooks

Published: July 18, 2025 00:00

Almost exactly one year ago, property hooks got merged into PHP's core. If you've been following my work on Tempest, you know that almost immediately after that happened, we started to prepare Tempest's codebase for PHP 8.4, and include property hooks…