John Linhart

My thoughts and stuff

I was lucky to attend the Mautic Conference Europe 2024 thanks to Acquia. I was also accepted to speak at the conference. I usually talk on the topic of "I built a cool thing." Not this time. This time I went the opposite way, pointing out how many unnecessary features Mautic has and how cool it...

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Earlier this year, I wrote a proposal to create our own Marketplace Database. Little did I know that this small act would result in a visit to Silicon Valley, which had been my dream since my early days. Mautic was selected as an OSS project to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2024, and my proposal turned out to be a great project for this program.

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The PHP splat operator has been in PHP for a while. Since PHP 5.6. I've discovered it quite recently by browsing PHP docs. From a quick google search it doesn't seem it's being used much. What I tried right away is if it can be used for type hinting each array parameter instead of just using just...

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I like to look at this Google Trends chart, but being lazy human, I'll place it to this article so I don't have to create it every time. I added the ActiveCampaign project as comparison for Mautic as it is also marketing automation tool which started only 4 years before Mautic. Hubspot and Marke...

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Everyone needs a hobby, right? I write code for living and I love it. I have the amazing oportunity to build open source software Mautic as my day job. That's something I didn't think was possible a few years back. I was lucky enough to get this opportunity. But building and maintaining open sourc...

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