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Aug 09 2022
General / Software Highlight

Software Highlight: PHP REST Service

PHP REST Service is a smart API server that can automatically generate API endpoints from a class (or manually specified callback functions), using PHP reflection. It’s extremely lightweight with zero dependencies and a single server file, and it packs a ton of features like regex url patterns, JSON, XML, plaintext and custom responses, middleware functions…

Aug 08 2022
General

PHP, APIs, and the Woes of Taking Over a Codebase

At my job I’m currently the de facto software developer. A couple months ago, the previous software developer graduated, and while I already had some experience with our internal tools and built some of my own, I was now tasked with maintaining and building upon these tools. I was immediately faced with a few challenges:...