# Posts tagged PHP

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## [New Job, New Programming Language](https://by-robots.dev/posts/new-job-new-programming-language.md)

Published on 1 November 2019. Tagged PHP, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.

Practical advice on switching programming languages mid-career, drawn from ten years of PHP and a move into Ruby. Covers approaching the job hunt honestly, how core engineering principles translate across languages — comparing PHP interfaces with Ruby duck typing — making the most of code reviews as a learning tool, and why comments matter more than ever when you're new to a codebase.

## [Webpack and WordPress 💙](https://by-robots.dev/posts/webpack-and-wordpress.md)

Published on 27 January 2019. Tagged JavaScript, PHP, Webpack, and WordPress.

A walkthrough of a Webpack boilerplate theme for WordPress, covering Hot Module Replacement for live browser updates without a full reload, Sass compilation and autoprefixing, ES6 transpilation via Babel, cache-busting manifest files, automatic favicon generation, and CSS and JavaScript minification — with separate development and production configurations throughout.