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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.
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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: [@

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…

📋 #Laravel Vet is a dependency audit for #PHP that shows you the code #Composer update is about to write into your vendor/ directory

Bypassing #PHP visibility controls. Please don't do this often.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/phptricks-access-control-bypass

PHP Tricks: Access control bypass
This is old-hat to some people, but it's still a nice trick. PHP has long supported Java-esque property and method access control. Object properties and methods may be marked `public`, `protected`, or `private` to control what other code may access them. The general recommendation for years is that properties should be non-public in almost all cases, unless you're using the new `readonly` flag in PHP 8.1. (There's a good case to be made that object-level encapsulation is the wrong model in …

The perils of under-engineering:
#PHP #Programming

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

📋 The PHP Foundation looks at how European public administrations run their #digitalsovereignty strategies on #PHP applications #opensource

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.

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: [@

🔗 #PHP #Docker

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

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

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

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. :-)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

☝️ 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

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

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

🏗️ 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

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

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

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

🛡️ #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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

> @… 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