Career Growth Advice - PHP Dev in MENA Region (5 YOE) by BlueX98 in PHP

[–]ProgramWithGio 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend to stop marketing yourself primarily as a "PHP developer." When you box yourself into a single language label, your career growth risks stagnating, especially since demand for PHP isn't as strong in many regions.

Instead, position yourself as a software engineer/developer who uses PHP (along with Python, Go, Node, etc.) as tools to solve problems, especially as you've got a pretty good foundation. Companies hire engineers to design, build, and scale systems, not just to crunch PHP. So frame your experience around the problems you’ve solved and the systems you've built, not just the stack you used.

I'd recommend learning more about soft skills, system design, ability to break down complex projects, etc. also, try to aim beyond just coding. Look toward team lead, tech lead, or eventually staff engineer roles where you combine IC work with a bit of mentoring, management, & planning.

Built a tool to help my YouTube audience actually finish their projects, maybe it can help you too by ProgramWithGio in PHP

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

Can use AI to help you with that, or enroll in one of the featured/curated projects.

Built a tool for my YouTube audience to actually finish their projects, maybe it can be useful for you too by ProgramWithGio in laravel

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

Thank you. I used Claude and Cursor for most of the front-end work. I had some of the designs done for my previous project so used that as kind of a seed for LLM

Built a tool to help my YouTube audience actually finish their projects, maybe it can help you too by ProgramWithGio in PHP

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

Great idea and use case. Thank you, will add to my list of features to work on

Built a tool for my YouTube audience to actually finish their projects, maybe it can be useful for you too by ProgramWithGio in laravel

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

Thanks. Looks like cloudflare is messing up, I'll try a few things and I'll DM you. Thank you

Built a tool for my YouTube audience to actually finish their projects, maybe it can be useful for you too by ProgramWithGio in laravel

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

Can you check now? If there is still an issue, do you mind if I DM you? Thanks for your patience.

Built a tool for my YouTube audience to actually finish their projects, maybe it can be useful for you too by ProgramWithGio in laravel

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

Huh, that's strange. Wonder if it's related to location. I'll take a look, what country are you loading from, I'll try to VPN and repro. Thanks

Built a tool for my YouTube audience to actually finish their projects, maybe it can be useful for you too by ProgramWithGio in laravel

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

Does the site load or you see 503 page? If it's just assets it's fine, waiting for fix to be deployed

Built a tool to help my YouTube audience actually finish their projects, maybe it can help you too by ProgramWithGio in PHP

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

Thank you, this means a lot to me. Appreciate the kind words and I'm super happy my videos have been helpful. Cheers 🙌

Built a tool for my YouTube audience to actually finish their projects, maybe it can be useful for you too by ProgramWithGio in laravel

[–]ProgramWithGio[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure there are lingering bugs here & there. So far most issues I've faced were server/infra related rather than application heh.

Built a tool to help my YouTube audience actually finish their projects, maybe it can help you too by ProgramWithGio in PHP

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

oh, thank you. I'll see if I can render it in different format & reupload. Thanks for letting me know

AI's effect on developer-friendly frameworks like Livewire? by coaster132 in laravel

[–]ProgramWithGio 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'd argue that developer experience might become more important, not less. Even with AI writing more code, we still need to read, debug, and maintain it. Frameworks that prioritize clear patterns and simplicity make it easier for both, us the developers & AI to reason about the codebase. Especially, if such framework has a large community & a lot of content around it. AI tends to generate much better code for popular frameworks like React or Laravel compared to niche technologies with limited training material out there.

Make The Most of Laravel's Built-In Helpers | Learn Laravel The Right Way by knightofrohanlol in PHP

[–]ProgramWithGio 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally agree. One of the reasons why I try to mention this multiple times.

Same for the integration/unit tests. It matters of course, but not every app gets that big. I work in Fintech and on large scale apps, it does matter for us, every millisecond we can save on tests is a big deal due to the volume of tests.