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Getting started with PHP
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Talking to the new Ecosystem AI Security Engineer
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PHP's biggest problem
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Dependency Hygiene
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"A" for "Artificial"
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Participate in the 100-million-row challenge for PHP
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Once again processing 11 million rows, now in seconds
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Partial function application in PHP 8.6
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AI-induced skepticism
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Processing 11 million rows in minutes instead of hours
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Not optional
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Open source strategies
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PHP in 2026
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I might have just flooded your RSS feed. Sorry!
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What's new in PHP 8.5
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Game changing editions
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My wishlist for PHP in 2026
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Pitch in: sponsoring open source
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Reducing code motion
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Vendor locked
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What is your motivator?
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Impact charts
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Things I wish I knew
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Readonly or private(set)
Which two should you choose when building struct-like objects in PHP?
A year with property hooks
Property hooks were added in PHP a year ago
The pipe operator in PHP 8.5
The pipe operator is a game changer for modern PHP!
PHP version stats: June, 2025
PHP usage in June, 2025
Tempest's discovery explained
A deep dive into the heart of Tempest.
Request objects in Tempest
Why Tempest requests are super intuitive
Static websites with Tempest
Tempest makes it super convenient to convert any controller action in statically generated pages
Theoretical engineers
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PHP version stats: January, 2025
PHP usage in January, 2025
Things I learned writing a fiction novel
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Tagging Tempest Livestream!
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Building a framework
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A simple approach to static site generation
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Extend or implement
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PHP 8.4 at least
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I don't write code the way I used to
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Improved lazy loading
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It's all just text
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array_find in PHP 8.4
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HTML 5 support in PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 adds a new HTML-5 compliant parser
New without parentheses in PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 adds a super convenient way to chain methods on newly created objects
You should
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A vocal minority
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Leaving Twitter
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Tagged Singletons
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PHP in 2024
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Testing Patterns
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Building a custom language in tempest/highlight
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A syntax highlighter that doesn't suck
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The framework that gets out of your way
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Passion projects
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I don't know
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What's new in PHP 8.3
All new features, performance upgrades, and deprecations in PHP 8.3
The RFC Vote project
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"Is A" or "Acts As"
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PHP version stats: July, 2023
Insights in PHP's version usage
#[Override] in PHP 8.3
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Building a procedurally generated game with PHP
I wrote a procedurally generated game from scratch
Things considered harmful
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Cloning readonly properties in PHP 8.3
PHP 8.3 adds a way of overwriting readonly property values when cloning an object
Slashdash
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I'm a light schemer
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I'm a code folder
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Acronyms
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My top-10 favourite functions in PHP
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Why curly brackets go on new lines
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Sponsors
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Tabs are better
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PHP in 2023
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PHP version stats: January, 2023
Insights in PHP's version usage
Upgrading to PHP 8.2
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All I want for Christmas…
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What's new in PHP 8.2
PHP 8.2 has a new randomizer engine, readonly classes, disjunctive normal form types, redacted parameters, performance improvements, and more.
You cannot find me on Mastodon
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PHP Annotated, the YouTube channel
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Deprecating spatie/data-transfer-object
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Upgrade to PHP 8.2 with Homebrew on Mac
How to upgrade to PHP 8.2 on a Mac with Homebrew
Readonly classes in PHP 8.2
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PHP 8.2 in 8 code blocks
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Asymmetric visions
Some thoughts on the new asymmetric visibility RFC, and PHP's general vision and direction
What I would change about PHP
Things I'd change about PHP
Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2
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Light colour schemes are better
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PHP performance across versions
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The Road to PHP 8.2
A 6 day newsletter series about PHP 8.2
Uncertainty, doubt, and static analysis
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The evolution of a PHP object throughout the years
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Stitcher turns 5 🎉
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Clean and minimalistic PhpStorm
How to set up PhpStorm in a clean and minimalistic way
My PHP enum style guide
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Attribute usage in top-1000 PHP packages
I analysed the top-1000 most popular PHP packages to see how they use attributes
Dealing with deprecations
How to handle deprecations in minor PHP updates
Dynamic Strategies
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The case for PHP generics
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Goodbye
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Why we can't have generics in PHP
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Generics in depth
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Generics in PHP: The basics
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PHP in 2021 (video)
Looking back on PHP in 2021
Dealing with dependencies
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"It's your fault"
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Twitter home made me miserable
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PHP in 2022
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How to be right on the internet
Dealing with online arguments and discussions in a constructive way
Upgrade to PHP 8.1 with Homebrew on Mac
How to upgrade to PHP 8.1 on a Mac with Homebrew
What's new in PHP 8.1
PHP 8.1 adds support for PHP enums, as well as readonly properties, Fibers, performance improvements, new in initializers, and more.
PHP 8.1: real-life performance benchmarks
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PHP 8.1 in 8 code blocks
The best features of PHP 8.1
Generics in PHP (video)
Some thoughts on generics in PHP docblocks, PhpStorm's support for them, and naming conventions
The case for route attributes
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PHP 8.1: new in initializers
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The birth and death of a framework
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PHP 8.1: readonly properties
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My IKEA clock, and software design
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re: On using PSR abstractions
My reply to Matthias Noback's excellent blog post
Named arguments and open source projects
Using named arguments in open source projects don't cause an added maintenance burden
Rational thinking
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Why do I write?
Thoughts on a fast-food content-creation culture
The Road to PHP 8.1
A popup newsletter about what's coming in PHP 8.1
We don't need runtime type checks
Making the case for static analysis
Would you like some optimism or realism with your estimate, sir?
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PHP 8.1: before and after
The impact of PHP 8.1 on my code
An event-driven mindset
A real-life example of how an event-driven system can improve code quality
PHP 8.1: cloning and changing readonly properties
Readonly properties in PHP 8.1 can't be changed — or can they?
What about typed request classes?
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PHP version stats: July, 2021
Insights in PHP's version usage
Opinion-driven design
Some of my personal thoughts on how we design open source projects
What about config builders?
A random quality-of-life improvement idea for managing config values
A new major version of Laravel Event Sourcing
A look at what's new in spatie/laravel-event-sourcing
PHP in 2021
A look back and forward on PHP
Starting with event sourcing
A close look at what event sourcing actually means
Thoughts on Event Sourcing
A personal look on event sourcing and the PHP community
Honesty
What happens when you're not entirely honest with your clients and colleagues
Don't write your own framework
How an in-house framework broke a few hundred websites
PHP 8.1: Enums
PHP 8.1 adds built-in support for enums, let's take a look at all the details.
Websites should be more like Star Wars
The old web was a place where creativity flourished
When I lost a few hundred leads
About the emotional impact of a bug I wrote
What's new in PHP 8
PHP 8.0 brings features like attributes, union types, and the JIT compiler. It has some important breaking changes, and improved performance.
PHP 8: the null safe operator
The null safe operator allows you to safely call methods and properties on nullables on PHP 8.
What a good PR looks like
It's Hacktoberfest, be nice and don't spam
Scopes in JetBrains IDEs
Scopes can help you find files you're looking for much more easy.
Which colour scheme is better?
There are several arguments to be made for light colour schemes.
The case for transpiled generics in PHP
I lay out my arguments why adding generics that don't do anything at runtime is a good idea.
PHP 8: Attributes
A close look at attributes, also known as annotations; in PHP 8
Annotations
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Differences
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My journey into event sourcing
A collection of talks that have guided me while learning event sourcing
Shorthand comparisons in PHP
Taking a closer look at the ternary, null coalescing and spaceship operators in PHP.
Why we need named arguments in PHP
Making the case to vote YES for the named arguments RFC
PHP 8: match or switch?
The new match expression in PHP 8 explained
PHP 8: JIT performance in real-life web applications
What performance impact does the JIT have on real-life web applications
Braille, and the evolution of software development
An unexpected similarity between braille the history and future of software development
Abstract resources in Laravel Nova
Enrich your resources in Laravel Nova
PHP 8: Constructor property promotion
Constructor promotion in PHP significantly reduces the amount of code we need to write for simple objects
Survey results: type systems in PHP
How does type system usage compare to team and project size?
How to merge multidimensional arrays in PHP?
There's a difference between array_merge and array_merge_recursive
What does array + do in PHP?
Array + array in PHP is a different kind of merge
Improvements on Laravel Nova
6 things you might not know about Laravel Nova
Builders and architects: two types of programmers
Dealing with different personalities within your team
array_chunk in PHP
How array_chunk works in PHP
Combining event sourcing and stateful systems
Bridging the gap between stateful and event sourced sub-systems
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