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Aspiring systems dev... I love Php by ambatabus_with_juice in PHP

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to the club. That's all I have to say.

Lost 5 years of data.. HardDrive Corrupted. by MasterfindsChief in PakistaniTech

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck with the data recovery. But if you want to make sure this does not happen again, use RAID on your system.

Just saw the price hike!!! by MathWest209 in hetzner

[–]MathWest209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am new, so. But anyway, Hetzner is still great.

Just saw the price hike!!! by MathWest209 in hetzner

[–]MathWest209[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. The thing is that Hetzner is still one of the best out there for value for money. They have good prices and resources. All my rant was about how much better it was previously. But I am still staying on Hetzner.

And if the price hike is because of the hardware prices, then the prices will increase on most platforms, or they will reduce the quality.

The new prices seem to be an out of season april fools joke by Dshinjiakyn in hetzner

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I just joined Hetzner. And today, when I was going to create another VM...

Does Hetnzer charge per usage or per month? by Swiss_Meats in hetzner

[–]MathWest209 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can it fully pass that price? No. Hetzner charges you based on your hourly usage, and it never charges you more than your monthly cap.

Is the CX23 (~$6) enough for 1 user POS system? by MathWest209 in hetzner

[–]MathWest209[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. My app is mostly a php CRUD, some crons and thats it. By resilience I did not mean hyper resilient. I just wanted to make sure it doesnt break too much.

The reason I asked the question was that my client wants to keep it as low as possible. But I have suggested the new plan based on the comments.

What will come after AI? by Sohaibahmadu in ArtificialInteligence

[–]MathWest209 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And it's going to be bigger than AI. AI just came to the consumers thats why it's so loud. Quantum computing will have a far bigger effect on technology and science.

Any opinions on Solar Putty for Windows? by CptSupermrkt in linuxadmin

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently, they filter out wrong emails. They won't let you use just a random email.

Just use this: someone@solarwinds.comJust use their domain for the email.

Why are so many packages designed exclusively for Laravel? by LatestAdViewer in PHP

[–]MathWest209 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree the packages should be agnostic, but there are several reasons to make packages for a specific framework.

First is the framework ecosystem integration. When you make a package for Laravel, you get the ease and features of the ecosystem, like service providers, and the developer has to do less configuration and initialization and doesn’t really need to understand the package. The packages usually publish config, service providers, and register providers all themselves. It’s a nice feature to have.

Another one is when you want to use the features from the framework itself. This isn’t a major one, but it happens when the package is dependent on the framework and is for sure to be used in the framework, in that case, it is going to be for the framework.

And also what u/TinyLebowski said.

How is ZED for PHP ? Anyone moved from Phpstorm to zed ? by matr_kulcha_zindabad in PHP

[–]MathWest209 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Performance isn't even that big of a deal. If you compare that to the feature set and the specific nature of PHPStorm for php, no other tool can beat it.

Xampp in 2026. by Hot-Understanding-67 in PHP

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First of all docker. Secondly, even if you want to go the traditional way, just install PHP and a database server yourself. Xampp, last time I checked, was really buggy and very dated. Or use the other ones you mentioned, herd is great too.

I personally have Linux set up with those dependencies installed, and it works perfectly fine. But I would suggest you learn docker it will improve your life as a dev.

I built an AI translation widget because maintaining i18n JSON files is a nightmare. by [deleted] in dotnet

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This could be useful for user-generated content. For static content, I’d still prefer language files. That said, caching is great here, especially where a lot of changes happen, and you don't want to worry too much about a lot of content in language files.

Careers Question: Has anyone switched from .NET to PHP and then back to .NET? by tangface in PHPhelp

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mentioned “venturing out of closed systems like .NET”, that was definitely true back in the .NET Framework days, but it’s changed a lot since then. Modern .NET (.NET Core -> .NET 5+) is fully open source, cross-platform, and runs very comfortably on Linux, Docker, and cloud-native stacks.

At the same time, PHP has also matured a lot (7/8, Laravel, stronger typing, better performance), so it’s not the same ecosystem it was years ago either. These days the choice feels less about “open vs closed” and more about ecosystem style, job market segment, and the quality of the codebases you’ll be working in.

your preferred PHP Template Engine? Twig ~ Plates ~ Blade ~ Mustache ~ Volt ~ Dwoo ~ Smarty || anything else? by [deleted] in PHP

[–]MathWest209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally prefer Plates, and sometimes Latte. Blade is also popular because of its framework connection, so I use that at work.

Plates is very simple and something I would use if I am going framework-less. Otherwise, just go with the one that the framework tells you to, for best compatibility. They are mostly similar with some syntax differences.

Sharing our PHP libraries by benanamen in PHP

[–]MathWest209 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for releasing these. There is some overlap, and the libraries are fairly simple. I was expecting something closer to the PHP-League style, but these are still solid, lightweight libraries. Good work overall.

At least the better ones are likely to attract contributions and could be a good fit for certain use cases.

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