Wozniak makes some interesting arguments about how ORMs can be more trouble than they're worth: over abstraction with little gain. Sometimes, writing performant queries with ORMs becomes so arduous that you're better off just writing the query!

An awesome blog post about how CORS works and how it impacts request security between the frontend and backend. I love the worked examples of CORS vs CSRF, an awesome resource for juniors and a lovely refresher for more senior folk.

I've been looking to touch up on latest best practice for PHP and was lucky enough to stumble upon this. From code style and security, to dependency management and deployment: this site has it all, completely for free!

In the LLM era of SWE, development often moves at breakneck speeds at cost of quality, reliability and understanding. This post makes a case for learning and understanding difficult tasks and skills: to be the master- not the slave of our technologies. It reminds us to take joy in the learning process!