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featured · 6h ago · 2 min readYou're Not Going to Do That Again, Are You?The author recounts shipping a bug at Steals.com that charged every customer 25 cents, and how CEO Rett Clevenger responded with a single question instead of firing him. The piece explains how that grace shaped the author's own leadership as a CTO, encouraging engineers to own and report mistakes early.compareInertia vs LivewireInertia pairs Laravel with a React, Vue or Svelte front end without an API, while Livewire builds interactive pages from PHP classes and Blade.
10h agoPHP Is Not Dead. It Grew Up.The author, a longtime PHP developer and former CTO, argues that modern PHP 8 with Laravel is mature, reliable, and well suited for production systems. The piece explains why he would still choose it for a company, citing hiring, shipping speed, and scalability.22h agoBuild an Agent-Friendly CLI Tool in PHP and Run It Anywhere With CPXShows how to build a PHP command-line tool that outputs JSON, package it for Composer, and run it from any directory using CPX. Also covers how CPX differs from globally installed Composer tools, including isolated dependencies and automatic updates.1d agoThe Vendor Meeting That Saved Us 10XA former CTO explains how a monthly meeting with database vendor SingleStore cut some jobs from days to minutes at MonitorBase. He covers what made the meetings useful, including bringing real problems, hard numbers, and engineers from both sides, and why vendors belong in how a manager thinks about their job.
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