https://evaldnet.dk/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Lars Evald Andersen Hugo en-us Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://evaldnet.dk/posts/what-clockwork-showed-us-about-a-30-second-list-page/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://evaldnet.dk/posts/what-clockwork-showed-us-about-a-30-second-list-page/ A list page in our admin was hitting PHP’s max_execution_time and crashing. The fix wasn’t one big rewrite — it was ten small ones, found by spending an afternoon making Clockwork actually show us where the time went. https://evaldnet.dk/posts/reverting-a-four-month-refactor-in-29-minutes/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://evaldnet.dk/posts/reverting-a-four-month-refactor-in-29-minutes/ A 138-file permissions refactor we’d worked on since June merged at 12:28. By 12:57 it was reverted. The bug was small. The revert was the right call. The version we re-shipped a week later was the same diff plus one fix — and a different way of proving it was safe before the merge button. https://evaldnet.dk/posts/rector-without-the-level-sets/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://evaldnet.dk/posts/rector-without-the-level-sets/ Rector ships with version ‘sets’ that bundle hundreds of rules to take your code from PHP X to PHP Y. We didn’t use any of them. Here’s the 20-rule cherry-pick we used to upgrade a multi-repo PHP 7.3 codebase to 8.4 — and why hand-picking turned out to be the smaller risk.