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Sofia Fischer Philodev

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The thoughts and ideas of a Developer about coding, development process and self improvement

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Posts
40 from 11 May 2022 to 13 Aug 2026
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monthly (10 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 8

  1. Testing does more than finding bugs
  2. Human Error
  3. Psychological Safety
  4. 📚 Code is for Humans
  5. How Complex is my Code?
  6. Overcoming Broken Window Theory (also in Software Engineering)
  7. 📚 Book takeaways Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  8. Is it my Imposter Syndrome or is it our Team Culture?

2025 8

  1. Registry Patterns in Python
  2. Looking at Observability
  3. 📚 Communication Patterns
  4. What is Graphic Recording?
  5. Leveling Up Git Skills
  6. Bitemporal Data: Timetravel your Data
  7. Meta Programming in Python
  8. Learning a new language - from PHP to Python

2024 10

  1. Consuming and Publishing to an external Service with Symfony Messenger
  2. Writing useful Documentation
  3. 📚 Book takeaways: Building Evolutionary Architecture
  4. Understanding other oAuth flows
  5. Understanding oAuth Authentication Code Flow
  6. Agile Software Architecture
  7. Event Sourcing for long living projects
  8. Gitlab Feature Flags (for Backends)
  9. Symfony Messenger Component step by step
  10. Dive into PHP Attributes

2023 4

  1. Using data for Sprint Planning
  2. Communication between different teams working on the same codebase
  3. Testing Open Api files
  4. Laravel Custom Casts

2022 10

  1. Laravel Validations
  2. The Laravel Queue
  3. Improving Retros from a Devs Perspective
  4. Ethical Development
  5. About Actions, Jobs, Repositories, Events
  6. Technical Job Interview questions 2022
  7. Manager and Driver Pattern - pattern, implementation, and usage
  8. Useful and Useless Relationship Definitions
  9. Model Specific Query Builder - an Alternative to Scopes
  10. Demo Environments and what I learned from implementing one