In the previous post, I talked about priority queues. But in my explanation of an alternative implementation, I neglected to mention a few things: The… Read More »Algorithms in PHP: Deques (circular buffers & linked lists)

This is the beginning of a series on implementing various algorithms in idiomatic PHP and their reference implementation (usually based on C++). Today we’re going… Read More »Algorithms in PHP: Priority Queues (and Heaps)

Say you want to ensure a user has access to a given email address (or phone number) on the device that they are trying to… Read More »Stateless-Passwordless Authentication using Cryptography

Last week I was working on porting an encryption scheme to PHP from C++, mostly to embed it in a website and make changes to… Read More »Um, since when is PHP faster than C++?

I really like using Windows to get around the web and write software, but I prefer Linux and bash for a CLI. Thus I tend… Read More »Finally Getting ipv6 in WSL2

Yesterday, I wrote a post over lunch that people just absolutely hated. It was great, in sort of weird way, to see that many people… Read More »A More In-Depth Reasoning behind PHP as a good language

So, I got an interesting spam comment on my post today: “It gets even crazier when you actually benchmark the two languages only to discover… Read More »Yes, PHP is faster than C#

For the last 15 years or so, my favorite language has been C#, despite using mostly PHP in my workplace since 2012. Over the years,… Read More »My Favorite Language has Changed to PHP