Nicola Asuni

@steinkel@phpc.social @dereuromark@phpc.social thank you.

@steinkel@phpc.social thank you!

For the curious: 🌐 Project home: https://tcpdf.org 📦 tc-lib-pdf source: https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-pdf

25 years ago I needed to print an invoice in PHP. So I wrote TCPDF. 109M+ Composer installs. It landed inside Moodle, PrestaShop, Matomo and hundreds more. I once even found its PDFs on NASA's servers. Still a bit surreal. TCPDF has now reached the end of the road. Its successor is tc-lib-pdf: modular, strictly typed, PHP 8.2+, with proper PDF/A, a real CSS engine, CMYK/prepress and signed PDFs. Full story: https://tecnick.com/articles/tcpdf/ #PHP #PDF #OpenSource #TCPDF #tc-lib-pdf

If this resonates, share your service template patterns or open an issue with gaps you hit in production. If gogen helps, a star and field feedback help prioritize what to improve next. #OpenSource #GoLang #BackendEngineering #Observability #APIDesign #CloudNative #DistributedSystems

If you build Go services, this can save a lot of repeated glue code: GitHub: https://github.com/tecnickcom/gogen Docs: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tecnickcom/gogen Article: https://tecnick.com/articles/gogen/ What does your team still rewrite each time: health checks, retries, shutdown flow, or logging/metrics wiring?

I break down a practical bootstrap pattern for predictable startup/shutdown, modular service wiring, and sane observability defaults. It stays idiomatic Go and framework-agnostic, so you can adopt it incrementally.

Most Go production incidents I debug are not business logic bugs. They are lifecycle gaps: startup wiring, observability, retries, and graceful shutdown.
I built gogen to standardize that plumbing for Go APIs so teams stop rewriting it in every repo.

I just checked Google Scholar and found that I hit 1,000 citations this year!

I find this particularly amusing because I don't hold a research role. My papers are mostly born out of trying to find solutions for practical software engineering problems. It's great to see that work having an impact!

Ref.: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xWXFupoAAAAJ

A new version of #gogen is here!

Started over a decade ago, #gogen has been a solid foundation for numerous production Go services.

It provides boilerplate code for quickly building a production-ready web server and is an #opensource collection of high-quality, 100% unit-tested Go (#golang) packages. Each package follows common conventions and can be imported individually.

Check out and star #gogen: https://github.com/tecnickcom/gogen

Full documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tecnickcom/gogen

Go 1.25.0 has been released:
https://go.dev/doc/go1.25
#golang

Debian 13 "trixie" released:
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
#debian #debiantrixie #debian13