I explain how PHP + Magento actually work under the hood, after 25+ years of shipping code. I simplify the complex.
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If you patched PHP yesterday, you're not done yet 🚨
php2shell started with an error every PHP dev has seen a thousand times:
"Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted"
Here's what actually went wrong, and what the update didn't fix 👇
Magento devs, update your docker-magento setup today 🚨
53.2.0 just shipped with PHP images rebuilt for php2shell (CVE-2026-109618 + CVE-2026-109619): PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12.
Here's what changed 👇
docker-magento is the most mature (10+ years), most starred (2,800+ github stars), and most active (all issues/PRs closed with many releases this year) development environment for Magento.
If you haven't already, show your love over on GitHub with a star & tell your friends! 😁
Every other week, I break down something about how PHP + Magento actually work under the hood. 11,000+ devs read it. Get in on it at:
macade.my/kupCI5
You deployed, flushed the Magento cache, and the OLD code is still running 😵💫
That's because the cache actually running your PHP isn't a Magento cache, and cache:flush never touches it.
Here's what's really going on 👇
Do this after every production deploy:
- reload PHP-FPM after the code lands
- symlink deploys: pass $realpath_root as SCRIPT_FILENAME in nginx
- check OPcache settings from a web request, not php -i
- then run bin/magento cache:flush, you need both cleared
I break down one of these every week in my newsletter: how PHP + Magento actually work under the hood. 11,000+ devs read it:
macade.my/VNEy63
Love this quote:
"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more." -- Charlie Munger
It’s very clear to me that programmers/developers that want to stay in this field will need to become systems engineers. It’s architectural judgement, process, orchestration, and documentation all the way down.
I built an app that automatically creates on-brand YouTube videos from raw, unedited clips.
Here's a video that was created from a raw 65 min 40GB video file. I uploaded a cam video, a screencast video, and an audio file -- and this is what came out the other end w/ZERO edits:
The app also automatically makes shorts from long-form videos, and natively formatted (not just cropped-down long-forms).
Here's one (it generated 5, of which 3 were very good): teapawt.org/MarkShust/status/21150…
Here's the original YouTube video btw, which took me 6+ hours to edit. I think the automatically-edited one is objectively better: youtube.com/watch?v=P_1TtSBQ…
