Page 4 - Monthly Archives: April 2026
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 26, 2026
Since June 2025, the German Accessibility Strengthening Act, based on the European Accessibility Act, has obligated numerous online stores to provide digital accessibility. This article explains which businesses are affected, which store areas must be compliant, which deadlines apply, and which concrete steps Magento and Hyva store owners take to meet the legal requirements in practice.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 26, 2026
Tailwind CSS v4 is not an incremental update, it is a paradigm shift. The JavaScript configuration file gives way to pure CSS configuration, PostCSS is replaced by Lightning CSS, and the design token system now works directly through CSS custom properties. This guide shows how to structure the migration from v3 to v4 without introducing regressions.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 26, 2026
GraphQL endpoints in Magento stores open new attack paths: enabled introspection exposes the full schema, deeply nested queries overload the database and server, and alias-based batching enables brute-force attacks against login forms. This article shows how to disable introspection in production, limit query depth and complexity, control batching, and correctly implement field-level authorization so your Magento GraphQL endpoint stays resilient against targeted attacks.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
Webhooks from Stripe, GitHub, Shopify or your own services arrive as HTTP POST requests, without type safety, without schema guarantees, and potentially from spoofed senders. Symfony offers a complete infrastructure with the Webhook component, Messenger and HMAC signature verification to process external events safely, type-safely and asynchronously.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
Docker in GitLab CI is powerful, but the configuration is full of pitfalls: the wrong runner type, insecure Docker-in-Docker, build caches that never hit, and artifacts that transfer unnecessary megabytes. Once you understand the mechanisms, you build pipelines that finish in three minutes instead of thirty.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
Typing SQL queries by hand costs time, especially with multi step JOINs, window functions and aggregations across multiple tables. Claude generates correct, readable queries from a clearly described schema and reviews existing queries for performance traps and security gaps before they run in production. This article shows the complete workflow from schema context to EXPLAIN analysis.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
Hyvä Theme's lean, semantic HTML foundation gives it noticeably better accessibility out of the box than classic Luma themes, but that doesn't close every gap automatically. Teams that ship Alpine.js toggles without focus management or icon buttons without accessible names still produce real WCAG violations. This article covers the strengths, the most common mistakes, and a practical checklist for your first Hyvä accessibility audit.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
The question isn't "OpenAPI or GraphQL?", it's "What is each model good for, and when does it make sense to run both in the same system?" Anyone who understands both models and their respective strengths makes better API architecture decisions.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
A self-join links a table to itself and looks at first glance like an academic exercise, but in practice it is the tool for three very concrete problems: modeling hierarchical relationships like employees and managers, spotting duplicate records based on business criteria, and directly comparing consecutive rows, such as events or prices, without needing procedural loops for it.
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Maxim Mironjuk
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April 25, 2026
A single DEL command looks harmless, but on a collection with millions of elements it can freeze the entire Redis server for several hundred milliseconds. Lazy freeing moves the actual memory reclamation into a background thread and makes deleting large keys noticeably fast, regardless of their internal size.
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