Git course #2 – commits and history: rebase -i, cherry-pick, bisect
Commit history is project documentation – other developers read it, git bisect searches it for bugs, and git blame explains decisions. Good commit messages, the ability to tidy history before a merge, and knowing cherry-pick and bisect are tools that separate someone who “uses Git” from someone who “manages” it.
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Git course #1 – data model: blobs, trees, commits, refs
Most developers use Git like a magic box: you type something, something gets saved, history somehow works. Until something goes wrong. To stop Git being a black box – start by understanding what actually lives inside the .git/ directory. Four object types: blob, tree, commit, tag. That is it. Everything else follows from these.
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Magento 2.4.9 – official PHP 8.5 support, what changed and how to migrate
Magento 2.4.9 was released in May 2025 alongside official PHP 8.5 support. This is the first Magento release where PHP 8.5’s pipe operator is available out of the box. Beyond PHP 8.5, the release brings performance improvements, updated dependencies, and deprecation cleanup. I show what actually changed, how to migrate, and which PHP 8.5 features are worth using in modules immediately.
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AI workflow 2026 – 2 years later, what works, what doesn’t, Claude 200K in practice
Two years after I first wrote about AI coding tools, the landscape has changed completely. Context windows went from 8K to 200K+ tokens. Models that were unreliable on Magento code are now genuinely useful. Cursor IDE turned AI from a suggestion machine into a pair programmer. I revisit my 2024 assessment with two years of production experience and concrete workflow changes.
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