What if PHP could go far beyond the web? Mehmet T. AKALIN believed it — and he made it happen. For years, PHP was stuck on the server side. Need a high-performance CLI tool? You had to use Go. Embedded code in an iOS app? Swift was mandatory. An autonomous AI agent on the client side? Python took all the space. But Mehmet (T. AKALIN on...

Our story begins in December 2024... At that time, I hear about something not so pretty... There's an online business model that I find pretty shady. The idea is to offer people "dynamic QR Codes." What we commonly call a dynamic QR Code is a QR Code that you print once, and that you can modify after printing. If you made a mistake, if...

You’re using AWS Fargate and Symfony? You don’t have to get rid of your Doctrine migrations… OK, let’s think for a moment. When you deploy a Docker container on Fargate, you’ll inevitably have several instances of your container. Even if you have low traffic, you’ll still have Symfony Messenger running. And so, what happens if you put ...

’m clearly an obsessive person: when I test something… when I get an idea… I never let go. 💪 A few weeks ago, I needed to rebuild my server infrastructure. It was starting to get old, and a lot of things had been done hastily… Anyway, it worked from 2020 to 2025. 🛠 While rebuilding the infra, I decided to create clean Docker images, fl...

What? How am I obsessive? I don’t see what you’re talking about… 😅 Let me tell you the story! As usual, I’m working on something of my own, in my little corner… After releasing Coupéo, I needed an internal tool to test an idea… 💡 And the thing is, to make this idea work, I’ll need to store, and more importantly distribute, thousands, e...

First of all, I’m sorry 😅 but I can’t (actually, I can no longer) take the time to reply. The reason is simple: to you, it feels like you’re the only one asking… But in reality, there are easily 3–4 of you every day 😵💫. I’ve honestly stopped counting. Imagine if each of you takes 15 minutes of my time — that’s 2 hours a day ⏰… And sinc...

From the series “I kinda like Rails” ❤🔥 I had to debug an email being sent in development… 💻📨 So people say: “Just use Mailcatcher… blah blah blah” 🙄 LAZY / 20 😴 The email just opens in a new browser tab. ✨ Why make it complicated when you can keep it simple? 😌 Love it 😍

"But what's he going on about now, what's a UIWebView?" Let's go back to the iOS 6.0 era, when iOS was king... 👑 To create apps, using web technologies was forbidden - you had to use Apple's proprietary technologies via Xcode, and code in Objective-C (Swift didn't exist yet). Among the tools provided by Apple was "UIWebView," which all...

What? What's wrong with my hook? You don't like it? 😝 Even though I spend time on Rails, playing around with the framework and its ecosystem, I haven't forgotten Symfony and the PHP world. 🐘💻 And things are moving in this little world... ✨ Yes, yes I swear! 🙌 And especially at the web server level, the big news of the moment is Franken...

So, I used to like the Magic Mouse, they mixed a mouse and a trackpad together. (Well now my mouse is an MX Master, but that's not the point 🖱) But, when you use it, you have your hand crushed on the mouse, and over time it creates pain... 😣 What? What do you mean I spend too much time on my computer 💻, I don't know what you're talking...

Actually, I mainly want to talk about S3. 📦 Let me explain... Out of my three current client projects, all three use S3 for file storage. 💾 I even have one where the job was to transfer all the data from AWS S3 to Clever Cloud Cellar. 🔄 And guess what? It's exactly the same API... ✨ Well, Cellar has a few fewer features (especially reg...

Sylius has become a reference in the e-commerce world 🚀. And it's not for nothing: it works really well, I know something about it! I've had a Sylius running for years 😍. But it's like everything else, you need to take care of it for it to work well! 💪 This week, on the blog, Josselin gives you the keys to properly maintain your Sylius...

Lately, I was looking at my Spotify playlists... 📱 And while scrolling, I thought to myself: "But actually, they have enormous power over the entire music industry". 💪 Let me explain... Spotify's real value isn't being a streaming music player. Well, yes, at the beginning, with their hybrid model mixing P2P and servers and loading a so...

That's why on my LinkedIn, you'll no longer see any companies listed in my experience section. 💼❌ Why? 🤔 Because I value my freedom of expression 💬🗣, and today the blog is read by quite a few people. 📖👥 On social networks, it varies: on X, I interact a lot 🐦💭, on LinkedIn less so 📉, the structure of the network means it works less well...

WhatsApp voice messages: convenient for those who send them, annoying for those who receive them... 😅 Let me tell you! 📱 I have a pretty intense flow of information every day, whether it's emails, messages... etc. I've set up systems to sort through all of that, focus my attention on what matters and set aside what's not very important...

Let me explain... 👇 In 2020, I decided to go 100% freelance, and I was confident. 💪 I'm not made for permanent contracts, that's just how it is, some people are, I'm not. 🤷♂ But the hardest thing about being freelance is finding clients you actually want to work with... 🎯 Except that, since I was a teenager I've always had a blog, init...

It's worth checking out! 👀 Tauri allows you to create your interface with Web technologies (JavaScript, vanilla, VueJS, React... etc). 🌐 And behind this interface? Rust code, it's this code that does the "heavy lifting". ⚙ For example, in software that processes videos 🎬, using a "low-level" language like Rust allows you to have perfor...

Let me tell you, as a proper tech geek who's passionate about technology 🤓, we're the type to chat on X. In my feed, I see an interesting tweet talking about AI and all that 🤖. And a buddy replies to this tweet, his joke is funny, as you can see in the image below 👇. So, the big goofball that I am piles on, well yeah... 🙃 And I'll let ...

This isn't new, back in 2012, when a website or application used this JavaScript API, it was a deal-breaker for me and I'd categorize that application as "poor quality" 👎. To counter this, for a long time, I would asynchronously load libraries like SweetAlert2. ViteUneTable for example, uses SweetAlert for confirmation requests ✅. Alon...

Putting the current interface state (the reservation calendar) 📅 in the page's <a> anchors, I wanted to test this, knowing it was a bad idea... But hey, it allowed having a different state if the interface is opened in multiple tabs. 🔗 I confirm, it was a very bad idea! 😅 My state is way too complex to be managed like that. We're going...

Besides being a friend for 14 years now, I'm also a client of the software written by Josselin. Yes, I did say "client" - friendship is exactly that: supporting your friends in their projects, so by buying their services... 🤝 Anyway, the post you're reading right now, I scheduled it with Plus-tard, his SaaS that allows you to schedule ...

Hey there, As always, thank you for being a subscriber to my newsletter 😁. New week, new blog post 😝. This time, we’re talking about part of the frontend side of Symfony-UX / Rails. Yep, we’re diving into Stimulus. First, I’ll share a link to the most well-known Stimulus controller, and then I’ll show you the source code of my own Stim...

Let me tell you the story! One of my applications (no, I won't tell you which one 😁) uses Turbo and Stimulus... well yes, it's my default front-end stack now. And in this application I'm making major modifications, and during these modifications I think to myself "hey, what if I upgraded to the latest version of Turbo to access the new...

You receive a Word document with... 📄 With what they want inside, cool, and regarding the price of the service: "Yeah, don't worry!" 👍 Three weeks later: "So, have you started?" ⏰ Well, no actually... I don't know what I'm going to earn, so well, sorry but... 🤷♂ Quote, invoice, all that 📊💰

A company, not at all in the tech world, that I work with from time to time on certain projects, made me a request. The idea behind the request is: develop business software for a need. So far, no problem. 👍 And they want me to sell them the source code... But since the company doesn't have a real CTO and has never worked with devs, fo...

Hey there! 😁 As always, thanks for following my newsletter 😀. So recently, I needed to implement a system for address auto-completion forms. But you know... with Google API and others, it's "free" but in fact, it's not really free. 😛 So I checked what's possible to do. For French addresses, there's some great stuff available! 🇫🇷 And th...

I write a lot on the blog... 😊 I've always loved writing, I've always had a blog since I was 14 (RIP my old blog by the way... 😅) But the thing I love most about it is that when I write on the blog, I share things, meaning I write what I want to write, not what will get clicks (I couldn't care less 🤷♂) And it's like a gift 🎁: either pe...

Hey. there 😃 ! Soooooo.... Yes, it's possible in just 5 minutes ⏱ If you're using Trix (Rails' WYSIWYG editor), you're probably loading half a megabyte of JS... even when your users don't need it! 😱 The problem: Action Text loads Trix on FIRST page load, The impact: On weak 4G? It's a disaster 📱💔 My dead-simple solution: ✅ Disable prel...

The last time I was this enthusiastic was in 2012, when I discovered Symfony... 🚀 I had planned for the first software to be released before talking about it publicly. But I can't help it, I'm having way too much fun, I'm way too absorbed by the marvel that is Ruby on Rails... 💎 EVERY SINGLE TIME I discover how to do something, like 10...

Imagine: Your brand new MacBook Pro M3 Pro struggling on a simple migration of 12 tables. 😱 That's EXACTLY what happened to me last week. And the worst part? It wasn't the first time MySQL 8.0+ disappointed me. 🔍 The story begins this summer... On my LFGitignore project (a little Django side project), the performance was so catastrophi...