Dev Log 05.26.2026: Symfony 7.4 and Frozen Ziti

Random Thoughts from a Restless Mind

Published On: May 26, 2026

🤓 The Technical: First day back at the day job after the long weekend, and the Adobe Commerce B2B push is still grinding. Most of my afternoon was spent pushing back on a request to connect our Adobe Live Search integration environment to the staging data space. That would just spread the existing problem — one data space being used for two environments — even further. You need one data space per environment. I said that three times. Eventually got the ball back into their court and called it a workday.

The personal side was the better half. Used Claude Code to do a full analysis across my Symfony projects and draw up a plan to finally move from 7.3 (EOL since January) to 7.4. The blocker had been a Redis version mismatch on the DigitalOcean droplets, but a third-party PHP 8.3 compatible Redis extension turns out to clear the path — and the swap can happen asynchronously, so I'm not stacking it on top of a Sunday deploy. Got LEMP server 1 updated tonight, and uncleversace.com is going to be the pilot for the actual Symfony 7.4 jump. Also formalized async runbook docs as a standard — last week was per-release runbooks for project-scoped one-time steps, this week is server-scoped ones. Documentation is the thing I used to be most resistant to, and AI in the loop has flipped that completely.

😎 The Atmosphere: Another long coworking stream. Some New Girl Season 3 during lunch and the ad breaks, plus a Faygo grape soda I'd been saving in the fridge. Chat carried the atmosphere when I needed it to.

🐶 The Coworker: Hubert had an outdoor day in a way he doesn't usually have. Spent hours migrating between sun and shade on the deck, plus the occasional patrol underneath it. We did our nightly walk too, but he tapped out a few minutes early and turned us back toward home. I listened. He gets to decide that one.

😡 The Rant: My Commander deck update package was scheduled to deliver Monday. Memorial Day pushed it to today. I play Magic on Monday nights and then nothing else until Friday. So instead of running my new deck at game night yesterday, I get to stare at the cards for four days. Curse you, freedom.

🙂🙂🙂 The Smiles: Dinner at my mom's. Someone in the family had baked her a ziti right after dad's death, and it'd been sitting in the freezer ever since. We thawed it, paired it with garlic bread, and ate it together. Easy meal, nobody had to cook, and it was good to spend the time. The food people made for us after dad passed is still feeding us. That meant something tonight.