Bits & Brews

Stories about PHP, WordPress, web development, debugging, security, and lessons learned from real projects.

Posts

Minecraft in Elden Ring: how AI agents are merging games together - Minecraft in Elden Ring, skateboarding in Call of Duty, Mario Kart in Zombies. Inside the passthrough trick that AI agents now put together in hours.
Seven Adobe apps, rebuilt by AI: the file formats are the real story - Seven Adobe applications, rebuilt in Rust by AI agents and released for free. The lasting question is what they say about file formats.
Debugging in production without panic: a calm checklist - A fixed order of operations for when something breaks in production and everyone is looking at you. It starts with reading the error rather than changing code.
PHP 8.5 in practice: the features you will actually use - The pipe operator, clone with new values, array_first and array_last, and a fatal error backtrace. What is worth adopting from PHP 8.5, and what can wait.
PHP tips that save me time every week - Seven small PHP habits that prevent bugs and make code easier to maintain: strict types, typed signatures, and more.
Jev returns decisions instead of sentences - TypeSafe's Jev skips text generation and returns typed decisions with confidence scores. What it changes for developers, and what the benchmarks do not prove.
Welcome to Bits & Brews - A quick introduction to the new blog: what to expect, why I am writing it, and who it is for.