Hot reload with FrankenPHP
While preparing the slides for my talk about FrankenPHP and DDEV at the API Platform Conference 2026, I discovered the hot reload feature of FrankenPHP.
While preparing the slides for my talk about FrankenPHP and DDEV at the API Platform Conference 2026, I discovered the hot reload feature of FrankenPHP.
I recently worked on a project where we needed to secure our application by requiring users to authenticate against an Identity Provider before accessing it.
While exploring ways to run Nvidia workloads on Nomad, I stumbled upon an opportunity to upgrade our vLLM setup to support the newly released Qwen 3.8 model. This involved reconfiguring our NVIDIA DGX Spark server.
Last weekend I learned about the OpenAI WebMCP Challenge. A hackathon organized by OpenAI and DevPost to explore what’s possible with WebMCP.
As developers, we're familiar with static analysis tools like PHPStan for identifying code problems. However, detecting runtime issues, especially those related to databases, requires a different approach.
As I work more intensively with coding agents, I've realized that a long-term memory is important. Without it, agents are limited to knowing only what's happened in the current session.
I recently updated our Gally DDEV addon to support the latest Gally 2.3 release. This new version brings exciting features like a recommender, visitor tracking, and search term suggestions.
On August 20th, the PHP Usergroup Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region is meeting again.