trish

I finally made my own blog site! No paywalls. No distractions. Just pure dev content. Check it out 👉 devlogs.xyz And feel free to subscribe to the newsletter if you want updates!

The real reason most devs hate PHP isn’t the language, it’s the fact that it still works in 2025 and outperforms half your favorite frameworks. People love to hate it, but ignore that it still powers massive parts of the web.

Build a lexical analyzer in C - tokenizes into keywords, identifiers, integers & operators - handles delimiters and validates identifiers - recognizes all 32 C keywords - processes expressions like "int x=ab+bc+30+switch+ 0y" source code: github.com/dexter-xD/proj…

Every codebase has that one function you don’t touch because it works but no one knows why. That’s the sacred code. Respect it.

How about this tweak?

doing frontend for my blog site. when things are simple, the flow hits different. lowkey enjoying it.

JavaScript devs be like: “Let’s build a startup” and then spend 3 mos deciding on the perfect framework that’ll be dead in 6

That's why I use pnpm... Because carrying a 300kb app with a 12GB node_modules folder just doesn't make sense. 😅