Tech Weekly
A weekly dump of things I learned, bugs I squashed, and tech I’m exploring.
TL;DR: Kumix.cloud is a multi-tenant SaaS dashboard built with Laravel and React that lets DevOps engineers, system administrators, and hosting providers manage VPS instances, SSH credentials, and server health from a single, real-time interface. Here’s how I built it. The Problem Managing multiple VPS servers across different providers is a fragmented nightmare. You bounce between: I needed one.
PHP still gets mocked at tech conferences. At the same time, PHP still powers around 77% of websites that use a known server-side language. Both of those things are true in 2026. And that gap says more about perception than reality. A 14-Year Perspective I’ve been writing PHP for more.
Recently, Cloudflare introduced a new open-source CMS called EmDash, describing it as a “spiritual successor” to WordPress. That alone is a bold statement, especially considering WordPress still powers more than 40% of the web. But what caught my attention wasn’t the ambition. It was the reason behind it. The Problem.
Recently, I ran into a problem that looked simple at first, but quickly turned into a performance bottleneck. I needed to fetch a directory of cities and branches from a third-party delivery service for an ecommerce checkout page. Since the store supports multiple languages, the same dataset had to be.