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🔗 #PHP #Docker

On empty return values. #PHP
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/empty-return-values

Our next #phpugmrn meetup is happening on August 20!
We're excited to welcome @… as our guest speaker. As the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, Liz will introduce the foundation's mission, highlight its impact on the PHP ecosystem, and share ins…

PHPUGMRN 04/26, Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - PHP Foundation, Elizabeth Barron 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CET - tbd. **How to contact us:** * Mastodon: [@

Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
#PHP

Advice for new speakers
Someone messaged me recently to say he had just been selected for his first-ever conference talk, and since the talks of mine he'd seen in the past were so inspiring he wanted to know if I had any advice for new speakers. Since flattery will often get you somewhere, I offered the following advice. I figure it's generic enough that I should share it more widely. :-)

☝️ Someone out there is running "composer remove" as part of a deployment?! 🚨 Please don't.
⚠️ remove is a write operation. It edits composer.json, re-resolves the whole dependency tree and overwrites your lock file. Your carefully pinned versions? 💨 Gone. Silently upgraded.
✅ composer install --no-dev exists for exactly this reason. Your lock file is not a suggestion. 🔒
#php

Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona

Thinking Functionally in PHP
Functional programming in PHP 7.4, with a side of category theory and monads accessible to everyone.

O hello PHP, haven't seen you toss this error at my before:
#php

anyone here experienced with #PHP stuff, #MIDI stuff, or both stuff, and willing to help out on a dumb little project of mine? we could use more hands (or paws, or other appendages)
boosts appreciated

Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/array-type-hint

Never type hint on arrays
Let's be controversial: In modern PHP, you should never type-hint an array. Before you start throwing tomatoes, hear me out.

Updating a small project to the latest and greatest PHPStan and PHP versions:
#PHP #PHPStan

Full circle happening to my developer career right now, friends!
#Swift now has a disambiguating PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM! (and no, I did not look up how to spell that; it is burned into my mind from #PHP 25 years ago)

🧩 #Laravel LSP announced at #LaraconUS 2026: a first-party language server that teaches your editor about your app #PHP

Our next #phpugmrn meetup is happening on Thursday next week!
We're excited to welcome @elizabeth as our guest speaker. As the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, Liz will introduce the foundation's mission, highlight its impact on the PHP ecosystem, and share insights into its upcoming plans.
Sign up here

PHPUGMRN 04/26, Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - PHP Foundation, Elizabeth Barron 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CET - tbd. **How to contact us:** * Mastodon: [@

I have now reached the "how did this ever work?" stage of debugging.
#PHP #Programming

📋 #queuesql is an #opensource #Laravel package that turns any write query — delete, update, insert, upsert — into parallel batched queue jobs

The number of PHP code-validation tools that have PHPStorm plugins that don't know how to handle running in a container is mind boggling. I don't think I've ever gotten a single one to work.
#PHP #PHPStorm

I hate dealing with file permissions. *HATE*.
#Programming #PHP

Running #Lando on GitHub Actions. #Laravel #PHP
https://www.

This came up with @… @… and @… tonight…
At the

Confirmed one of my expectations that the current/old NAS I'm using was the bottleneck for image conversion. Hooked up a new NAS over the weekend, directly in the VLAN, and with faster drives; almost directly on the first run, proving that #PHP and the #RaspberryPi's where neve…

🏗️ Worker supervisor — a Horizon replacement that auto-scales workers on any driver, with crash-recovery, graceful shutdown & multi-node fleet support, validated by a chaos battery
🧰 Requires #PHP 8.2 , #Laravel 12/13 & Livewire 3.5 — install via Composer, ships

Has anyone else seen this "No space left on device" on GitHub Actions come up recently?
#GitHub #PHP #CI

Good documentation is a gift you give yourself in a month.
#Programming #PHP

🔍 #PHPFTS: a self-contained full-text search engine in pure #PHP — no extensions, no dependencies, just files. Trigram indexing, BM25 IDF scoring, filters & typo-tolerant matching. Runs on any PHP 8.1 shared host.

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/much-ado-about-null

Much ado about null
null is controversial, and often derided. But let's go a bit deeper and understand what it means to mean nothing, and let that guide us to better error handling.

🛡️ #Vigilance is a driver-agnostic control center for #Laravel queues, jobs, commands & the scheduler — plus whole-app APM, tracing, metrics, alerts & uptime. Self-hosted & production-safe #PHP

TFW you realize you already wrote a tool to solve the problem you're working on, but you totally forgot about it so used 50 workarounds that your tool exists to already solve for you...
#Programming #PHP

📋 #Yerd is an open-source local #PHP development environment for #macOS and #Linux — a rootless

So help me, I am pondering writing my own DI container. What is wrong with me? (Or with the existing market, for that matter.)
#php

Programmatic database resets
#PHP #Programming

Programmatic database resets
Make your tests faster and safer with this one cool trick!

When should you use #PHP Enums, and when shouldn't you?
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/on-the-use-of-enums

🔌 Non-blocking I/O for regular #PHP functions. fread, fwrite, file_get_contents, ob_start, curl, #MySQL, and #PostgreSQL now work asynchronously without extra effort.
🖥️ Built-in TrueAsync S…

⚡ #TrueAsync is an experimental library bringing true asynchronous programming to #PHP — coroutines, async/await, and non-blocking I/O built into the language core. Write high-performance concurrent applications with clean, readable code and minimal changes.

RE: #php

The perils of under-engineering:
#PHP #Programming

The perils of under-engineering
When Yes, You're Gonna Need It

Take the JetBrains developer survey 2026! (Use the link below so I get referral credit. :-) )
https://surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer-ecosystem-survey-2026-sh?pcode=219595885222191163

📊 Requires #PHP 8.2 and Laravel 12 or 13, works on #MySQL, #PostgreSQL & #SQLite. State liv…

RE: #Rust finally gets asymmetric visibility, two years after

I mean, this is fair and accurate for all languages mentioned...
#Programming #PHP #CPP #Javascript

📊 Requires #PHP 8.3 and #Laravel 12, built on laravel/ai with Anthropic as default provider (#OpenAI, #Gemini, #Groq

> @… announces 60 projects strenghtening the #DigitalCommons ¹
➡️ There are two #Fediverse-related tools:
#ActivityBot — A full #ActivityPub server in a single #PHP file
👉 #Fedipub — #Ruby Library for adding #ActivityPub Federation
👉 #NLnet #OpenSource #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #FOSS #FLOSS