What a website actually costs to run
Anyone who hosts websites for other people eventually asks the same question: what does one site actually cost us? It sounds like an accounting problem. It is really an architectur…
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PHP
Notes on the software we build and the tools we build it with. about PHP
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What Laravel 13 changes, and what it costs to get there
Laravel 13 landed on 17 March 2026. It requires PHP 8.3 and supports up to 8.5, receives bug fixes into Q3 2027 and security fixes until March 2028. The headline is unusual for a m…
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PHP 8.5 released
PHP 8.5 arrived on 20 November 2025. Where PHP 8.4 was mostly about removing boilerplate around properties, 8.5 is about expressions: chaining them, cloning them, and catching the…
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PHP 8.4 released
PHP 8.4 is the version most Laravel applications are running today, and it is the one that finally removed a great deal of getter-and-setter boilerplate from PHP. Here are the feat…