Since my sleep schedule has been a bit mucked up I did not do too much over the weekend all in an effort to get nice and sleepy so I can try to actually fall asleep at a certain time.
While I just clicked buttons in my zombified state I finished watching Undead Unluck which is one of those Anime that got a lot a hype so obviously I avoided it.
It has a pretty cool concept with very different powers that you usually see in these things. All in all was a fun watch and serves well as a stupid cover image for this post.
Other than that I have been deciding whether to dig into Drupal vs Wordpress vs Symfony vs Laravel...
It is odd because I do want something that is good with hitting the ground running but I don't have to be a genius to customize the simplest things.
One other criteria I kinda want purely because I want it is Postgres over Mysql.
From running Mysql on my own vps one thing I hate about it is the amount of management it requires. Similarly I have a server running Postgres and frankly I have not needed to touch that db or reboot it or anything in forever. The Mysql I have had to do memory management and not to mention the absolute irritation they are trying to implement via security policies using sockets and bullshit.
Unfortunately if you want to run Wordpress on Postgres you need to rely on a Postgres compatible fork. This is obviously just not a good choice and for that alone I really don't think I care to use Wordpress for my own things. Then again it depends.
I think just because if you are building things for a client , locking them into custom content types and plugins from scratch is probably not the best choice.
Things like ACF, PODS etc can be better because those are 3rd party maintained code and used by many more people than the ones that use your silly plugin on their site. Obviously if they want it and pay for it fair enough.
Symfony is a great choice also purely because almost everything in PHP land has Symfony as foundation. Even Drupal and Laravel.
Now Symfony can feel like rawdogging it but frankly you are using the best standards you can without too much abstraction which in the end helps truly understand things deeper.
Another thing that could be cool to get then will be the Symfony certification, but right now I am actually already busy with a course I find quite engaging on Boot.dev.
With boot.dev I get to dig into Python, Go, Git, SQL and obviously some Js but with a focus on backend. The problem with things like Coursera is how they lock you out of getting to run your code via tests and submit. For this FreecodeCamp is probably still the absolute best system to learn coding from the ground up.
Something like CodeAcademy is also good and I think their pricing is similar to Boot.dev but without the Gamification.
All in all I am happy with my trajectory just not my speed in live.
