I was on a little adventure: I attended my very first Symfony community event. SymfonyLive 2026 in Berlin on April 23-24.

This was a special experience for me as it marked my first time attending a Symfony community gathering. And trust me, it definitely won't be my last! From the first day on, I felt genuinely welcomed by everyone around me.

While experimenting with the new Symfony AI component, I realized that you cannot only build MCP servers for your application but also have an MCP server integrated that exposes insights in your Symfony app for your coding agent. This component is called the AI Mate.

Our next PHPUG Frankfurt meetup is scheduled for the 21st of May 2026 at the office from our friends at Reservix.

In the Sylius Admin interface, a breadcrumb element is present in the content part of various pages. This element is rendered using the @SyliusBootstrapAdminUi/shared/crud/update/content/header/breadcrumbs.html.twig Twig template.

In one of our Sylius projects, we are using the Sylius Settings plugin by our friends from Monsieur Biz to manage settings efficiently.

As I prepared for my live coding demo at the E-Commerce Open Source Summit in Paris later this week, I stumbled upon an interesting challenge: Our phpstan-sylius extension was not fully compatible with the latest features of the Sylius Stack release.

Recently, my good friend Sebastian Bergmann published an article about how to use an alternative implementation of withConsecutive() calls in PHPUnit 13.

The Friends of Presta organization will host the Ecommerce Open Source Summit 2026 in Paris at the 26th of March. This event promises to be an exciting gathering of like-minded individuals passionate about ecommerce and open-source technology.

Join us on April 30th in Mannheim for an exciting Sylius Hackathon & Meetup! 🎉 This year, we're taking it to the next level by combining our traditional meetup with a hackathon event.

I'm excited to share that I've been named an IBM Champion for 2026, building on my previous recognition as a Hashicorp Ambassador 2025.