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Why I switched from Symfony to Laravel
Currently, I’m in the process of switching back to Laravel after spending many years becoming a specialist and writing a book about Symfony. In the past year or so I have noticed the gap between Symfony and Laravel
13 hours ago
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Lately, for some reason, I've been increasingly noticing the disconnect between a company’s rhetoric and reality. Perhaps, over the course of 9 years in the IT industry, I’ve become more attuned to filtering out the hype and bullshit. 
1 week ago
How and Why I Use Symfony Asset Mapper (importmap) Over Encore
Symfony provides powerful tools for asset management, and among these tools are the Asset Mapper (importmap) and Symfony Encore. While both have their strengths, there are compelling reasons to choose Asset Mapper over Encore, particularly for p
2 months ago
The Non-tech Problems Facing Tech Teams
Through my experience with various companies' tech teams over the years, I've observed a recurring pattern of non-technical issues that affect them. Lack of CommunicationIronically,
4 months ago
CIO's Guide to AI-Driven Cost Reduction: Preparing Your Development Team
Feeling the squeeze? First COVID-19 related costs, then war on the European continent leading to energy prices soaring in turn making operational costs soar and now a slump in slow markets. Not to mention the state of the labor market, trying to
4 months ago
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I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance