Long-form writing on Drupal, PHP frameworks, AI tooling, automated testing and everything else in a working programmer's stack — shipped from production, not theory.
The Bound-Erased Generic Types RFC had a working implementation and a real syntax proposal, and it still failed its primary vote by a wide margin. I read the RFC to see what PHP generics would have looked like, why it lost, and whether PHPDoc templates are actually fine in the meantime.
PHP pre-announced an emergency release on 20 Oct, then shipped 8.5.12/8.4.27/8.3.36/8.2.35 fixing two critical RCEs the next day. My Dockerfile already pointed at the right base image tag — and that still wasn't good enough. Here's why, and the one-line fix.
An ASE '26 paper reports that repos with committed AI config show about half the complexity growth after adopting coding agents. Tempting to read as 'write a CLAUDE.md, halve your mess' — but it's observational and the authors call it hypothesis-generating. A skeptical read, and the audit it actually suggests.
Craft's fields/merge and entry-types/merge commands consolidate duplicate fields and rewrite your project config — a version-controlled cleanup tool with no real Drupal-core equivalent. Then an Oct 8 bug showed merges silently skipping field condition rules and Content Block fields. How to run it safely.
Craft 6 removes its own filesystem concept: volumes and transforms now point at Laravel disks in config/filesystems.php, and storage config leaves the control panel for code. A Drupal dev on what that shift costs — plus the payoff, BlurHash and dominant-color handed to GraphQL for free.
Craft 6 alpha.19 adds publishing workflows, atomic 'releases', and timeline comments — the editorial governance Craft 5 lacked. A Drupal dev compares the draft-centric design to core Workflows and Content Moderation, notes it's Pro/Enterprise-only, and flags that the feature has no docs yet.
Drupal 12 is mostly 11.5 with the deprecations deleted — and the deletions include nine modules a lot of sites run (Search, Contact, Toolbar, Shortcut...). The upgrade is a Composer-require checklist, Contact is the one to check carefully, and the Dec 9 Drupal 10 EOL makes it a deadline for some.