"Seven different projects, by seven different teams, arrived independently at the same conclusion: PHP needs generics."
This RFC is a masterpiece 😍 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bound_erased_generic_types#php_rfcbound-erased_generic_types
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mastodon 4.7.3I write a blog about PHP and programming, a newsletter, a PHP framework, and a scifi novel. So yeah, I write.
I also host PHP Annotated on YouTube, and am I developer advocate for PHP at JetBrains, PhpStorm.
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Blog & Newsletter:
Tempest:
PHP Annotated:
Timeline Taxi:
Good news and bad news.
Good: PHPverse is coming back 🥳
Bad: by mistake, we sent out the 2025-edition newsletter instead of the 2026-edition🫣
We'll send a followup mail to fix it, but here's already the correct link with all info: https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2026/
I've been talking about this with people at several conferences for a couple months now. I wanted to properly write down my thoughts: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-biggest-problem
So who's coming to PHPverse this year? 🤚
You can now build MCP servers with Tempest: https://tempestphp.com/blog/tempest-mcp
A pretty big milestone today! We've released Tempest 3.0! https://tempestphp.com/blog/tempest-3
How fast can you make it? Here's the 100-million-row challenge in #PHP: https://stitcher.io/feed/posts/74302
You have two weeks to participate. Thanks to PhpStorm and Tideways for sponsoring the prizes!
A pretty cool new feature in Tempest 3.1: generate TypeScript types from PHP code! https://tempestphp.com/blog/generating-typescript-types-with-tempest
I was reading this blog post about how package managers are evil. I don't really agree on the "evil" part because package managers do solve a problem that would be very hard to deal with manually. That being said, I was curious enough to do a little experiment.
I'd say this weekend is the perfect time to participate in the 100M-row challenge with #PHP!
I'm releasing the audiobook version of Timeline Taxi for free on my personal youtube channel, subscribe if you want to follow along: @brendt_gd@www.youtube.com
What does the future of PHP look like? I'll be talking about this question in 10 minutes, LIVE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/x_KmbLtQiJ0
PHP Foundation Director interview
This is an important one, if you have any questions to propose, head over here: https://stitcher.io/feed/posts/74593
Ok here's a 100M-performance challenge update:
- We're now running on a dedicated Mac Mini to ensure more stable performance
- Over 80 people have submitted an entry
- We now also have a participation prize! So everyone has a chance of winning 😁
Source mapping is now a thing in Tempest 3.2!
https://tempestphp.com/blog/view-source-mapping
Some followup thoughts on last week's blogpost: https://stitcher.io/blog/more-depedency-considerations
Your questions for the new director!
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@afilina I genuinely have no idea. If I had removed it, it would still be in that screenshotted list, I believe.
I get how frustrating that can be, especially if you spent effort on writing it.
I'm kind of sad you assumed I censored it without checking, especially after the nice conversation with had IRL at Symfonycon.
Anyway :)
Just published Tempest 3.4, which only has one feature — but a massive one: truly decoupled discovery!
The 100M row challenge in PHP is almost coming to an end, and even until the last days, results are improving like CRAZY
More than 100 participants; two prize pools for multi- and single threaded solutions; performance already pushed to sub-3 seconds. The 100M-row challenge is doing great!
FYI: if you're with a company that wants to pitch in to biggen the prize pool, feel free to let me know :)
Doing some backend coding for the 100M-row challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IclXc6k0C4Y
100M-row challenge: backend coding and issue solving
It's a very sad day for me today, as my IKEA Slabang clock died after almost 20 years. It was such a simple yet robust thing that just solved the problem it needed to solve, and kept doing its work for two decades.
I once wrote a blogpost about it: https://stitcher.io/blog/my-ikea-clock
I did a lot of work on this little game of mine during the weekend. Continuing today :) https://youtube.com/live/iOXbYs5FID8?feature=share
Will we have a finished game today? | The Dungeon Part 3
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@edorian How we approach that is by adding these extensions or packages as suggests, but not as a hard requirement. I think opt-in is better than opt-out (which most people forget about)
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@ausi Yes, I added that to the blog post :) It's still a very crude solution to a deeper problem though, since this needs to happen on the project level, and the developer needs to actually think about it. Nevertheless, very good to mention
I'm releasing an audiobook version of my sci-fi novel on YouTube. The second chapter is now live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hbsDTuRm4
The plan | Timeline Taxi (Audiobook Ch.2)
You can now listen to the Timeline Taxi audio book on YouTube for free! https://stitcher.io/feed/posts/74444
Tempest now has HasOneThrough, HasManyThrough, and BelongsToMany relations: https://tempestphp.com/blog/new-orm-relations
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@ramsey@phpc.social it will cache the result after one execution based on an idempotency key :)
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@afilina For reference, these are the only three comments on that video
Your is published just fine? I haven't seen any other comment
☝️I do; I struggle with AI. Let me tell you a story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDL1aGqF4HU
17 Years as a Developer: How AI Changed Me
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@edorian True, this is what Laravel for example does with "opt-in" driver dependencies. Indeed it requires you to read the installation guide for specific components, but it's better than pushing unnecessary dependencies to all your users.
We're still live! Come say hi :) https://youtube.com/live/QabDK4M-s8I?feature=share
Continuing to build our dungeon crawler | The Dungeon Part 2
Who could have thought that this would be so much fun? https://youtu.be/sGalXQE_Mxs
Writing a markdown parser, good idea?
Today we're doing something different! https://youtube.com/live/iBvo8LMfay8?feature=share
Building a proper game with PHP and AI | The Dungeon Part 1
Come join me live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqFGXUF1nN0
Parsing 100 million rows with PHP
Great to see tempest/highlight being used more and more :)
Come join us! We're live now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cvygqWwMc
Speeding up xdebug 300% WITH AI
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@denniskoch@phpc.social About the CLI part, having written a terminal implementation myself, I know for sure I'd never want to do it without a framework, which brings us back to the original argument: those aren't compatible
TWO SECONDS to parse 100,000,000 rows in PHP
Come join me for another epic livestream! https://youtube.com/live/QabDK4M-s8I?feature=share
Continuing to build our dungeon crawler | The Dungeon Part 2
Join Nuno and I as we talk big things PHP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBoblOPF8YM