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Ilia

ilia.ws Joined May 2026
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Jun 26 • Articles • 6 min read
Here is a bug in a name-parsing library I use at work: // theiconic/name-parser $name = $parser->parse'Jane Doe DDS'; $name->getLastname; // "Dds" $name->getMiddlename; // "Doe" The dental credential is now her last name. The real surname got ...
Jun 4 • Articles • 10 min read
I've reached for igbinary on nearly every PHP project I've shipped in the last decade. It's smaller and faster than PHP's native serialize, it's stable, and it has been the obvious default for so long that reaching for it stopped being a decision. S...
May 22 • Articles • 7 min read
// Before $payload = jsonencode$response; $data = jsondecode$input, true; $ok = jsonvalidate$input; // After $payload = fastjsonencode$response; $data = fastjsondecode$input, true; $ok = fastjsonvalidate$input; That's the migratio...
May 11 • Articles • 10 min read
The launch post for phpclickhouse 0.6.0https://ilia.ws/blog/php-clickhouse-a-native-clickhouse-client-for-php-picking-up-where-seasclick-left-off covered the framing: native binary protocol, soft fork of the stalled SeasClick, modern ClickHouse types...
May 4 • Articles • 7 min read
Anyone who's tried AI-assisted trading research has hit the same wall. The agent has no native access to your charts. You end up copy-pasting symbols, indicator values, screenshots, and Pine Script back and forth between TradingView and Claude or Cu...
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