Tag: PHP

Code profiling tools are everything now. When I was staring at Thaura writing code, it was doing some wild tricks with python and grep and other unix tools that…

Continuing the series, more info about altering project internals. I think of this like a caterpillar going into a cocoon, having enzymes totally disintegrate its guts, and then produce…

Continuing the series, more info about altering project internals. I got so tired that I stopped blogging. A note to myself read: The main big issues I’ve hit this…

Last time it was about updating code. Now it’s about altering project internals. Mid-Project Legacy A long time ago, I decided that the old style include(‘foo_class.inc’) was annoying, and…

This document describes how I’m porting a legacy PHP codebase to PHP8.5. The security crisis of October 2026 required porting everything on a legacy website to PHP8, the only…