I finally finished reading...

Adrian Cochrane

HTML For People - Blake Watson:
https://htmlforpeople.com/

I'd love to see how it works for the target audience, but as best as I can judge it looks like a great course!

I think Simple.CSS is a huge aid here. And interesting that it (eventually) teaches the infamous PHP, in a way that makes it seem appealing to me.

Johan Wärlander 🦀

@alcinnz I accidentally got back into PHP a bit, after having done mostly Rust, Go and Python for a couple of years.

It's.. not really that bad? Lots of new developments in the language itself. Better performance when coupled with something like FrankenPHP & running persistently, so your whole app doesn't have to be loaded for every request.

Poking around with Laravel 11 now, and liking the opinionated solutions. For internal dashboards etc, the web part itself isn't what needs to be fast.

Jason Lefkowitz

@jwarlander @alcinnz As someone who has been working with PHP nonstop for the last 20 years, I would agree that PHP is a lot better than it used to be. If you squint a little, it even looks like a proper programming language

Laravel's ORM has some hidden performance gotchas you have to be careful to avoid, but otherwise it's a pretty pleasant framework to work with.