December 5, 2025 — Ever reach for a simple callback and end up writing a tiny novella—an arrow function stuffed with types, reordered parameters, and boilerplate just to pass one value through?

November 28, 2025 — When a webpage’s content exceeds the viewport height, browsers typically introduce a vertical scrollbar. This can lead to layout shifts, especially when navigating between pages or toggling content visibility, as the presence or absence of the scrollbar alters the available width for content.

November 13, 2025 — For years, we’ve faked “characterful” corners with SVG masks, pseudo-elements, and more than a few headaches. The problem? Border-radius only controls size, not shape.

October 19, 2025 — PHP’s parse_url was not compliant with RFC 3986 (generic, permissive URIs) or WHATWG URL (browser-style URLs), leading to inconsistent behavior, interoperability problems with tools like cURL, and subtle security issues such as parsing confusion.

October 8, 2025 — Imagine a responsive hero image that becomes more transparent as the viewport gets narrower, helping text readability on small screens or a card that scales up slightly as the viewport grows, adding a subtle polish.

October 1, 2025 — The pipe operator (|>) in PHP 8.5 is a powerful addition that allows for a more functional programming style by enabling the chaining of operations clearly and concisely. It takes the result of an expression on its left and passes it as the first argument to the function or method on its right.

September 19, 2025 — Laravel’s cache system is a powerful tool that allows developers to store and retrieve data quickly, improving the performance of their applications. Usually, caching is done using various drivers like Redis, Memcached, Database or even the file system.

August 27, 2025 — If you are a PHP developer, you might have heard about or worked with Spatie’s Ray, a popular debugging tool that allows you to send debug information from your PHP applications to a desktop app for easy inspection at some point.

August 18, 2025 — I recently came across this video by Kamran Ahmed, where he demonstrates how to resize any DOM element using just two lines of CSS. And I was like, “What the heck, how did I not know about this all this time?”

August 10, 2025 — The team behind Chrome has been on a roll when it comes to shipping cool yet useful features over the past few months. Last May, they shipped the support for the new if() function in CSS and, before that, tools to help write better with AI, among other things.