Last year I wrote a post on AI usage. I mentioned some downsides of AI, but also noted I saw the advantages. Since then, LLM/AI adoption has skyrocketed and over the last year I have had several moments where I really wondered if I should even continue doing software development. Not because I hate software […] The post On AI (continued) appeared first on skoop.dev .
This morning I had a weird issue where the GUI applications I run inside WSL2 (in my case: PHPStorm and SmartGit) would start, but not show. I saw the icons in my Windows taskbar, but the actual windows would not show. Whatever I did, they were “gone”. And I can tell you: It’s hard to […] The post WSL2 GUI not showing appeared first on skoop.dev .
In the Dutch news (NOS Journaal) today at 6PM, there was an item about sovereign tech and sovereign cloud. With all the developments in world politics, this has been a huge topic in recent… well, years already I guess. But what that sovereign tech is, exactly, that’s made absolutely unclear by the way media seems […] The post Sovereign tech appeared first on skoop.dev .
Some years ago, during lockdown times, ThePHP.cc talked me into writing a talk for their online conference. They knew my company tried to support open source in several ways and hoped that I would share the how and why. Since then, I’ve done that talk at several conferences (including the amazing Dutch PHP Conference and […] The post Sustainable open source appeared first on skoop.dev .
Yesterday my PHPStorm updated to the latest version 2026.1, and since then I had issues with it. It seemed to have a dark overlay or a shadow of a window over part of or the whole window (depending on whether the screen was maximized or not). I could still work in PHPStorm, but it was […] The post PHPStorm 2026.1 dark overlay fix appeared first on skoop.dev .
It took me a while to really sit down and reflect on it, but March 13 was the day of Dutch PHP Conference aka WebDevCon aka AppDevCon. What I love about this threesome of conferences is that it isn’t limited to just PHP, while you can still enjoy a whole lot of PHP content. Funny […] The post Dutch PHP Conference 2026 appeared first on skoop.dev .
This post is long overdue. We made the switch from Slack to Mattermost early last year, in our effort to have more control over the systems that we rely on, and also to try and remove the dependency on the US given the current (geo)political climate there. I’d been wanting to try out Nexaa for […] The post Deploying Mattermost to Nexaa appeared first on skoop.dev .
OK, so this is a short and quick post just to clear some confusion. I spent hours and hours trying to figure out what the hell was going on when I was running into this NS_ERROR_CORRUPTED_CONTENT for javascript files For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what the cause was for this error. […] The post Firefox NS_ERROR_CORRUPTED_CONTENT confusion appeared first on skoop.dev .
Last week I started at a new customer and they’re fully committed to the Azure DevOps environment. They use their Git repositories, their project boards and also their pipelines. Since the project I’m working is currently their only PHP project, they did not yet have any experience with setting up pipelines for a PHP project. […] The post My first Azure Pipeline appeared first on skoop.dev .
One of the most discussed subjects during code reviews or in projects is not a functional thing but more a style thing: How does the code look? What coding style do we adopt? And while it feels like mostly a cosmetic thing, the code style is actually quite important. It determines not just how you […] The post Explicit code appeared first on skoop.dev .