Having had 10 years building PHP-based web apps, I professionally retired fro…

Having had 10 years building PHP-based web apps, I professionally retired from the language back in 2015. Returning to PHP these days feels like visiting my college dorm room after a wild weekend (my roommate was the wild one, of course of course).

Returning yesterday to help a client with a massive SEO issue was one of those days.

After struggling to infer the parameters needed for a particularly popular WordPress plugin, I took matters into my own hands to update its docs.

I purposefully don't keep up to speed with PHP but with 10 minutes of research, I uncovered PHPStan, and learned PHPdoc.

Using my AI copilot, I opened the source code, and added documentation for a popular project in a language I don't use.

This is the power of AI. These moments are the type I'm excited about.

Like a good neighbor, I opened a pull request to update main branch for future devs.