Andrej Rypo

Andrej Rypo @dakujem

About: **We can disagree and still be friends.** I build bridges and tools for others to use. I maintain and improve a lot of legacy code, monoliths, services. I spend my free dev-time on FOSS packages.

Location:
Moravia | Europe
Joined:
Aug 5, 2020

Andrej Rypo
articles - 15 total

Stop using jQuery?

I bumped into this article that states jQuery can be replaced by native code: Why jQuery 4 is a good...

Learn More 0 0Jun 25 '25

How to properly set up WAMP stack with multiple PHP versions in parallel

Ever wondered how to get rid of WampServer, Xampp, EasyPHP and similar stuff? In this article: how...

Learn More 4 0Mar 18 '25

Tree traversal and merging with Generators

Tree traversal Recently I reimplemented my old library for tree structure handling. It...

Learn More 0 0Feb 11 '24

Swiftmailer on PHP 8.2

One of the essential requirements for software to be maintained is the ability to upgrade the...

Learn More 2 2Jun 6 '23

From Singleton to Facade

Some have heard that singletons are evil. They are. Don't use them. TL;DR And don't use facades...

Learn More 11 1Oct 11 '22

The pitfalls of using traits

When traits came to PHP, I'm sure many (myself included) thought they were a viable solution for code...

Learn More 4 0Oct 10 '22

Fullstack web development in the twenties

I am a fullstack web developer. Well, used to be. Back when I started, it was enough to know PHP...

Learn More 3 2Oct 10 '22

php 8 fun

From all of the breaking changes introduced in PHP 8 I think the change to the comparison operator is...

Learn More 4 1Aug 18 '21

i18n, l10n, g11n, a11y, W1F

Seriously? How does this make anything more legible? Are we trading keyboard hits for legibility? I w...

Learn More 2 2Dec 25 '20

Recursion in PHP

Chapter 1: Tail Recursion If we want to understand tail recursion, we need to read Chapter...

Learn More 0 0Nov 29 '20

Anonymous Generator in PHP

Recently, I wanted to create an anonymous generator. The good news is that it is possible, the syntax...

Learn More 5 1Nov 28 '20

PHP 8 performance 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🚀

Is anyone else seeing a big performance boost on PHP 8? A couple of tests in my small library dealin...

Learn More 9 10Nov 25 '20

HTTP Middleware in a nutshell

I wanted to point people to a simple and framework-agnostic explanation of middleware. I found none....

Learn More 8 0Nov 1 '20

Middleware in Business Logic?

In case you are into web development, you might be familiar with the concept of HTTP middleware, whic...

Learn More 6 0Oct 31 '20

Nested slots with Vue.js

Coming from the world of Twig and Latte (PHP templating engines), I was surprised that nested slots a...

Learn More 13 0Oct 24 '20