Kevin Pfeifer

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Full-Stack Developer at Sunlime Web Innovations, CakePHP Core Member
Githubhttps://github.com/LordSimal

Another day where bitbucket is not usable at all... nice

https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/

Atlassian Bitbucket Status

Welcome to Atlassian Bitbucket's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Just migrated all my NGINX config to Angie and man, its sooooo good to have
- HTTP 3 out of the box
- a built in, WORKING ACME/HTTPS implementation which handles it all automatically (no certbot needed any more)

Highly recommend anyone using NGINX to migrate over to it.

https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie

GitHub - webserver-llc/angie: Angie - drop-in replacement for nginx

Angie - drop-in replacement for nginx. Contribute to webserver-llc/angie development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

I love how CakePHP's documentation uses oven mittens to denote possibly dangerous things.

#CakePHP #PHP #Framework

PHPStan 2.1.34 is out with two great advancements:

Optimized performance: between 25 % to 40 % faster times thanks to more caching and raw performance tweaks in code.
More precise analysis with Fibers (super-cool) on PHP 8.1+.
Upgrade today and let me know how it works for you!

Who wants a WooCommerce Security update 2 days before christmas? Well, here you got one: https://developer.woocommerce.com/2025/12/22/store-api-vulnerability-patched-in-woocommerce-8-1/
Store API Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce 8.1+ - What You Need To Know

A critical vulnerability in WooCommerce 8.1+ has been patched. We strongly recommend updating immediately.

The WooCommerce Developer Blog

I was wondering why latest PHPStorm eats up enormous amounts of RAM when opening a composer.json or package.json... but it seems the built in Package Checker Plugin has a problem.

In the meantime I'd recommend all PHPStorm/Webstorm Users to disable that plugin.

See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/31709985153554-Phpstorm-freezing-non-stop

Phpstorm freezing non stop

Phpstorm in the last few days have started to freeze almost every time I start it. The times it doesn't freeze it's very laggy. I tried updating it (to 2025.3), tried reinstalling, clearing cache, ...

IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
Bitbucket restricting even paying customers to only run 1 consecutive self hosted runner for their lackluster CI toolset is one more nail they inserted into their coffin.
attention homebrew PHP users: As of recently you have to install php-intl separately as its not part of the default php Formula any more.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/244321
php: remove linkage to libstdc++, split out php-intl by cho-m · Pull Request #244321 · Homebrew/homebrew-core

Fixes #243881 Avoid segfaults from mixing libstdc++ and libc++ by building the intl as a shared module in a separate formula. This cannot be built at same time as PHP build script adds -lstdc++ to ...

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For all those CakePHP 5 users out there, who want to use the new Sentry Logging feature: Just released a new minor version of my plugin which adds Sentry Logging Support 🥳

https://github.com/LordSimal/cakephp-sentry?tab=readme-ov-file#sentry-logging-optional

GitHub - LordSimal/cakephp-sentry: CakePHP 4.4+/5+ plugin integration for Sentry

CakePHP 4.4+/5+ plugin integration for Sentry. Contribute to LordSimal/cakephp-sentry development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub