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.
Claude Code can connect to external tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — Sentry for production errors, JetBrains for IDE introspection, Context7 for library docs, Perplexity for web search. The problem: with six MCP servers available,…
This is part 3 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 2 covers the architecture. holas.pl is a static site with one exception: the contact form. Every blog post, category page, and stati…
notACMS is a Symfony-based static site generator I built in early 2026 to replace 19 years of WordPress on holas.pl. No database, no CMS admin panel, no PHP involved in serving content. The entire site — blog posts, category pages, tag listings, arch…
This is part 2 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 1 covers why WordPress had to go. After deciding to leave WordPress, the question was what to replace it with. Hugo, Jekyll, and Ele…
holas.pl ran on WordPress from 2007 to early 2026. Nineteen years. In that time WordPress grew from a straightforward blogging platform into something I barely recognize — and maintaining it had become more work than maintaining the actual content. T…