Building in PublicA developer blog about building things in public, sharing learnings and shipping software.https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/en-USA Symfony Template Where AI Failing Is a Featurehttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-04-template-symfony-ai/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-04-template-symfony-ai/My new Symfony 8 + FrankenPHP + AI template ships with model failover, circuit breakers, and Claude Code guidelines. Zero to production in one command.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding an AI News Aggregator That Works Without AIhttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-04-news-aggregator/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-04-news-aggregator/How I built a self-hosted RSS aggregator with AI categorization and smart alerts — and why rule-based fallback made it actually reliable.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPandora's Box Is Open. And Nobody Knows What Was Inside.https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-pandoras-box-is-open/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-pandoras-box-is-open/We talk about AI as if it's a tool we can put down whenever we feel like it. That's the most dangerous lie we're telling ourselves right now.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTI Watched Vivy in 2026 and It Felt Like a Documentaryhttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-vivy-felt-like-documentary/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-vivy-felt-like-documentary/A developer's reflection on Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song — and why a 2021 anime about AI feels less like fiction every day.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Claude Code Plugins That Actually Make a Differencehttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-claude-code-plugins-i-use/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-claude-code-plugins-i-use/My daily driver setup: 6 plugins, custom hooks, and a token-killing proxy. Here's what each one does and why I keep it installed.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow Anime Helped Me Through Depression — And Still Doeshttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-how-anime-helps-with-depression/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-how-anime-helps-with-depression/A senior developer's honest account of depression, numbness, and finding emotional access through anime. Not escapism — the opposite.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTFrom Template to Production App in a Weekendhttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-04-smarthabit-tracker/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-04-smarthabit-tracker/How I built SmartHabit Tracker — adaptive notifications, real-time sync, multi-transport push — on top of a quality-first Symfony template.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMy Opinionated Symfony + SvelteKit Template with 10 PHPStan Extensionshttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-symfony-sveltekit-template/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-symfony-sveltekit-template/A full-stack template for PHP 8.4 + Symfony 8 + SvelteKit 2 with level max static analysis, mutation testing, architecture tests, and CI from commit zero.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow I 10x My Output as a Senior Developer Without Sacrificing Code Qualityhttps://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-10x-output-with-quality/https://blog.tony-stark.xyz/blog/2026-03-10x-output-with-quality/I built two production-ready repositories in a single weekend. Here's the system that makes it possible — and why the quality stack matters more than the AI.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT