About six months ago I wrote a blog post about how I got to solving the Rubik’s cube in under 60 seconds consistently. Since then, I have been working on improving and getting even faster solves. This is past me, on November 4th, 2022 to be precise: My current PB…

“Composition over inheritance” is a principle in programming that emphasizes the use of object composition instead of class inheritance to achieve code maintainability. While inheritance can be useful in certain scenarios, it can also lead to tight coupling and inflexible designs. By favoring composition, developers can build systems that are…

A bridge between Collision and PHPUnit — I really like how Pest PHP formats and outputs test results, but I still prefer to use PHPUnit. Luckily there’s Collision. This package is designed to give you beautiful error reporting when interacting with your app through the command line. The new major release of PHPUnit gives developers the opportunity…

The new major release of PHPUnit gives developers the opportunity to extend it by using the event system. This allows us to create extensions and build upon the core functionality of PHPUnit. The extension I created allows you to enforce minimum code coverage by using the clover xml report from…

But why though? I was in need of a no-nonsense, intuitive, and easy-to-use skeleton to set up new (personal) projects. After finishing it, I was pretty happy with the result and I decided to open-source it. For the last two years I’ve been heavily into DDD, CQRS, and AMQP…

A PHP app that generates Pokemon cards by using GPT and Stable Diffusion — Like almost every 90s kid, I loved (and still love) Pokémon, and like many developers, I’m curious about AI. Last week, I stumbled upon Jack’s GitHub repository A Python script that uses AI to generate new, random Pokemon cards. I got inspired and decided I wanted to take this to…

A PlayStation platinum trophy is the highest level of trophy that a player can earn in a Playstation video game. It is awarded for earning all of the other trophies within a game, including gold, silver, and bronze trophies. Platinum trophies are typically considered to be the ultimate goal for…

If your application relies on AMQP, you most likely are using multiple consumers and workers to process data and commands. Each of these consumers has to be restarted every time you deploy new code to any of your environments to make sure they are “working” with the latest version of…

I’m one of those weird people that aren’t happy with being able to solve a Rubik’s cube, no, I need to be able to solve it as fast as possible. The art of doing this is called “Speedcubing”. There’s even an official association that organizes competitions and keeps rankings. The…