I Took 4 Job Interviews for a PHP Full-Stack Developer Position in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2025 – Here’s What Changed Since Last Year
Last year (find the post here), I shared my experience interviewing for PHP full-stack developer roles in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the…
November 01, 20252 minsWhy Developers Need Tasks That Make Their Brains Work
As a developer, I’ve learned something important about myself and about many people in this field: we don’t just want to solve problems, we…
October 30, 20251 minsHandling Millions of Requests With PHP
When people think of high-performance web systems, PHP doesn’t always come to mind. Yet, some of the world’s busiest platforms run on PHP…
October 27, 20252 minsI tried Omarchy A Convenient Start but I Prefer Arch from Scratch
As someone who enjoys the flexibility and control that Arch Linux offers, I decided to give Omarchy a try. Omarchy is an opinionated Arch…
October 17, 20252 minsColor Schemes and Eye Strain in Coding - My Journey
As developers, we spend countless hours staring at code. While we often focus on keyboards, monitors, and ergonomics, color schemes are one…
October 16, 20251 minsAutomate Your Daily Tasks With PHP CLI
Command-line tools in PHP can do far more than basic file cleanup. We’ll build a PHP CLI tool that can: Manage files and folders dynamically…
October 15, 20252 minsRunning Gemma 2 (2B) on a Raspberry Pi 4B with Ollama
After attending GDG Cloud Thessaloniki DevFest 2025, I was inspired to experiment with Google’s new Gemma model. Surprisingly, running large…
October 14, 20251 minsAttended GDG Cloud Thessaloniki DevFest 2025
On October 11, 2025, I attended GDG Cloud Thessaloniki DevFest 2025 at the University of Macedonia a day packed with learning, inspiration…
October 13, 20251 minsI Tried Gentoo Linux (It Didn’t Go Well)
Like many Linux enthusiasts, I’ve always heard stories about Gentoo—the legendary distribution where you compile everything from source and…
September 28, 20252 mins