Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #16
Authors of "polished" PRs no longer necessarily understand their code... maybe code was (at least a part of) the hard part?
Tag: Programming
8 articles tagged with "Programming"
2026
Weekly Tech Cocktail - Issue #14
Twenty-five companies tell Washington to leave open weights alone, Postgres explained as a city, and the jobs apocalypse that isn't.
2025
The Weekly API Cocktail – Issue #6
ToolShell hits SharePoint at scale, Mistral audits AI's environmental cost, and Claude Code grows sub-agents
The Weekly API Cocktail – Issue #3
Scott Adams on writing well, Birgitta Böckeler still cares about the code, and most REST APIs aren't RESTful
The Weekly API Cocktail – Issue #2
The AI lifestyle subsidy ends, Fowler calls LLMs a new kind of abstraction, and MCP eats the world
2011
I see huge controllers ...
Best practices for organizing PHP/Symfony controllers and model layers to avoid spaghetti code, reduce maintenance costs, and improve developer productivity.
2010
HTTP is the web's language
Understanding HTTP fundamentals: the request/response protocol, methods (GET, POST), status codes, and why web developers must know the language of the web.
2009
All about backward compatibility...
Real-world case study of a backward compatibility break in PHP 5.2.11 that affected symfony projects, highlighting why stable branches must remain stable.