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I’ve seen how certain standards and tools become indispensable when working with data. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned over these years, it’s that JSON is everywhere: APIs, logs, configurations, NoSQL databases… The question is no longer whether you’ll work with JSON, but when you’ll face that 15-level nested structure that makes you sigh.

The Problem We’ve All Lived Through

How many times have you had to write something like this?

The first alpha version of PHP 8.5 has just been released, and I must confess it has me more excited than recent versions. It’s not just for the technical improvements (which are many), but because PHP 8.5 introduces features that will change the way we write code.

And when I say “change,” I mean the kind of changes that, once you use them, you can’t go back. Like when the null coalescing operator (??) appeared in PHP 7, or arrow functions in PHP 7.4.

Mozilla AI surprises again: AI agents that work just by opening an HTML

A few days ago I came across a Mozilla AI project that really caught my attention: WebAssembly Agents. And after 30 years watching the industry complicate life with dependencies, installations, and configurations, seeing something that works just by “opening an HTML” made me smile.

The problem it solves (and we all know it)

How many times have you tried to test an AI project and encountered this?

The hype vs reality: reflections from a developer with 30 years of experience

This morning I came across a talk that made me reflect quite a bit about all this fuss surrounding AI and software development. The speaker, with a healthy dose of skepticism, does a “reality check” on all the grandiose claims we’re hearing everywhere.

The complete talk that inspired these reflections. It’s worth watching in full.

When developing games for mobile devices, we have multiple cross-platform alternatives:

OpenCart is an e-commerce platform made in php, with impeccable development, 100% MVC. As a proof of concept, I have rewritten the template system of OpenCart to Haanga (Django templates for PHP, über efficient) by César Rodas.

WebAppers offers us 30 icons, and their sources for developers of this platform.

Lately I’ve been busy studying and testing different libraries and resources:

• ExtJS: Javascript.
• CakePHP: PHP.
• Joose: Javascript.
• Ontimize: Java.
• Yahoo UI Library: Javascript.
• …

I have many examples, tricks, and “recipes” for each of these that I’ll be publishing to keep them organized and easily accessible, and also because they’ll surely be useful to others.