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.
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…
This is part 4 of a series on migrating holas.pl from WordPress to a custom Symfony-based static site generator. Part 3 covers the contact form security. One of the goals for holas.pl was a development environment as simple as the production one. No …
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…