Alejandro Celaya | Blog

I haven't traditionally written end-of-the-year articles, retrospecting on what happened to me, but I thought 2025 was worth the effort. I want to talk about my hobbies, the open source projects I maintain and my professional life. Video games One of my main "solo" hobbies is playing video games, an…

FrankenPHP is one of the latest additions to the PHP application server ecosystem. It was created by Kévin Dunglas, and recently started being officially supported by The PHP Foundation. It is written in Go, and provided as a high-performance replacement for php-fpm. Additionally, it also supports a…

A couple of years ago I wrote about how to capture code coverage in API tests. In that article I explained the implications of code coverage collection when the code under test does not run in the same process as the test itself. However, the process explained there was a bit hacky and limited to AP…

After more than 10 months since v3.10.0 was released, with only a couple patch releases in between, and a lot of effort put into pushing this release out, in January 2024, shlink-web-client 4.0.0 has been finally released. As opposed to v3.0.0, which introduced many visual changes, v4.0.0 focuses on…

Recently, I migrated this very blog to Astro, and I took the opportunity to modernize the search system. I was then using lunr, which was a bit unmaintained, and not playing well with modern build tools. Introducing fuse.js Looking for alternatives I found fuse.js, a fuzzy-search library, with zero …