What's new in PHP 8.6

— PHP 8.6 is shaping up to be another interesting release. It contains a mix of language improvements, new standard-library functions, better networking APIs, security improvements, and a few useful internal optimizations.

Your CI pipeline needs a lockfile, too

— Lockfiles might be familiar to you if you’ve ever worked with package managers like npm or Yarn (for the JavaScript ecosystem) or Composer (for the PHP ecosystem). A lockfile, as the name suggests, is a data file generated by these package managers that “locks in” or, in other words, records exact dependency versions, cryptographic hashes, or resource-access states.

WebMCP in Chrome (A 101 Guide)

— MCP (Model Context Protocol). At this point, you might have come across this term if you’ve worked with any kind of AI agent. But if you still haven’t, here’s a quick refresher on what it is and why it’s important.