Paweł Holik
PHP / Symfony Tech Lead
20+ years building backend systems and ecommerce platforms with Symfony, Sylius, Drupal and Mautic. Based in Toruń.
As a Tech Lead at Droptica, I focus on architecture and backend solutions.
Here I write about PHP, Symfony, Docker, Linux and my home lab.
This is part 1 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. The series covers testing, code review, security, the local override pattern, the build pipeline, theme system, search architecture, and the release checklist. The original Word…
1.2.0 started as a cleanup, turned into a full audit, and ended up being the most substantial notACMS release yet. Around 170 fixes across the core, both template trees, documentation, and JS — with a handful of deliberate breaking changes along the …
This is part 10 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 9 covers the multilanguage system. Part 5 covered how Claude Code was used during the initial build — AGENTS.md as the AI's instruc…
This is part 9 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 8 covers responsive images and scheduled posts. Adding a second language to a Symfony site usually means duplicating controllers, ha…
A WordPress site resizes uploaded images automatically. Scheduled posts have a "publish on" date picker in the editor. Both work without any custom code. On a static site, there's no server handling requests and no application layer checkin…