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Hermes is an open-source AI agent that runs on a server, remembers across sessions, and builds reusable skills over time. The shift it represents: AI moving from something you summon to something that runs.
I didn’t like the code I wrote for a particular feature. It was “notify users when someone comments in a discussion” with these requirements:
A week ago Hannes and I attended PHPUK in London (You can read all about it here). We saw a lot of great talks and
This article is an update (2017) of the How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch original article from 2015. There is also an updated
Frederick and I (Hannes) went to PHP UK last week! I was invited to speak again, for the second year in a row. After attending
Elasticsearch gets a lot of its power from how it works with analyzers and inverted indices. These inverted indices store your text data in a
Last week I attended the PHP Conference Brasil for the first time. It was awesome and I’m going to try to cover some of
So an API, that’s just output of some JSON code right? No problem, my framework does that automatically. Or if you just want an
As applications grow bigger and bigger, our codebase needs to accommodate for more and more business actions. After a while you will have code that
I’ve been performing a talk on PSR-7 at PHP meetups and conferences. In that talk I demo the use of Guzzle to perform concurrent
We all know them, search pages which allow you to filter through vast data sets by checking or unchecking filters. In most cases each filter
The other day I was listening to the FullStackRadio episode 34 which is about dealing with dependencies in Active Record models. This is a very
Preface Recently there has been a lot of commotion around code of conducts and if a user group/open-source project should implement them or not.
A new tool called Otto came out recently. It’s a tool from Hashicorp. At the project homepage we can see the headline “meet the
As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if
If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways
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