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.
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…
holas.pl scores 100 in Lighthouse's SEO category. What that actually checks: meta title is present, meta description is present, canonical URL is set, links are crawlable, the page is mobile-friendly. These are the minimum requirements — the things t…
holas.pl scores 100 in all four Lighthouse categories on mobile — Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO. Mobile is the stricter test: slower simulated CPU, throttled network, tighter scoring thresholds. Getting all four to 100 there mea…
notACMS 1.1.0 landed on April 24, 1.1.1 two days later, and 1.1.2 followed about a week on. Three releases that change not what notACMS does, but how you start with it — and what you get out of the box. notACMS grew out of my own site and for the fir…
This is part 5 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 4 covers the developer experience and deployment. Building holas.pl involved writing a fair amount of PHP, Twig, and SCSS — and maki…