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Feb 14, 2026 AI

The New Folly of Conventional Wisdom

As the way we build applications evolves, our dogma must evolve with it. It might be time to stop saying a rewrite is never the answer.

By Ed Grosvenor

Feb 09, 2026 FFmpeg

Why Your FFmpeg Drawtext Words Don't Line Up

PHP's GD library and FFmpeg both use FreeType to render fonts. They produce different pixel measurements for the same text. Nobody warns you about this

By Len Woodward

Feb 06, 2026 FFmpeg

The Single Quote That Took Down 30 Subtitle Filters

How a children's story taught us that FFmpeg's documentation lies about single-quote escaping.

By Len Woodward

Jan 26, 2026 AI

Software Development Is Changing Less Than You Think

I arrived at my desk this morning, relieved to find that I was not, in fact, replaced by a lobster.

By Ed Grosvenor

Dec 06, 2025 NativePHP

What I Want to Solve Next Week

In the coming week, my focus is going to be on improving the ergonomics of developing mobile apps with NativePHP

By Ed Grosvenor

Dec 02, 2025 AI

The AI Velocity Paradox

AI has allowed us to significantly increase team velocity, while forcing each of us to slow way down.

By Ed Grosvenor

Nov 19, 2025

How I Spent the Cloudflare Outage

The decisions we make when all is calm should give us confidence when the storm hits.

By Ed Grosvenor

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