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How to scan QR codes without camera or phone

QR codes are everywhere. Easy to scan with a phone. But what if you want to decode a QR on your laptop instead of your phone, without a camera?

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Smart generics in PHP

Type hinting in PHP8 has become powerful but it still has limitations. In this article I discuss some ways to use Generics to overcome some of these limitations.

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Using Sublime Text as a full featured PHP IDE

Sublime Text might look more like a text editor than an IDE, but looks can be deceiving. Read why I prefer Sublime Text above other editors and IDEs, and how you can get the most out of it by using the right plugins.

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PHP: Frankenstein arrays

PHP has become quite a nice language, but there are some ugly legacies left from the past. Like the deceptive Frankenstein abomination known as the "array".

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