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Notes on Yii2, PHP & practical architecture
Short, practical notes from building and maintaining Yii2 applications — e-commerce, APIs, database design and infrastructure. No fluff, just what worked in production.
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HOW I BECAME LAZY AND BECAME MORE PRODUCTIVE
Sep 8, 2026 · 5 min · Automation · CLI · Productivity
The console commands I built because I refused to do the same task twice: a daily task digest, an image pipeline that outlived three clients, a one-command asset build and a Bootstrap 5 codemod — and the rules of thumb laziness taught me.
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YII2 ADVANCED TEMPLATE IN 2026: STILL RELEVANT?
Dec 18, 2025 · 4 min · Yii2 · PHP · Architecture
A field report from rebuilding a B2B wholesale platform on the Yii2 advanced template: what has aged well, what has not, and the point at which extracting a composer package starts to make sense.
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