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2025-10-01 Vendor locked 2025-09-29 What is your motivator? 2025-09-11 Impact charts 2025-09-10 Things I wish I knew 2025-08-03 Readonly or private(set) 2025-07-18 A year with property hooks 2025-07-03 The pipe operator in PHP 8.5 2025-06-13 PHP version stats: June, 2025 2025-04-26 Tempest's discovery explained 2025-04-24 PHPverse 2025 2025-03-17 Request objects in Tempest 2025-03-14 Static websites with Tempest 2025-01-18 Theoretical engineers 2025-01-17 PHP version stats: January, 2025 2024-11-14 What's new in PHP 8.4 2024-11-09 Unfair Advantage 2024-10-30 Things I learned writing a fiction novel 2024-09-16 Tagging Tempest Livestream! 2024-09-13 Building a framework 2024-08-30 A simple approach to static site generation 2024-08-24 Timeline Taxi: chapter 7 2024-08-21 Extend or implement 2024-08-16 Timeline Taxi: chapter 6 2024-08-13 PHP 8.4 at least 2024-08-09 Timeline Taxi: chapter 5 2024-08-07 I don't write code the way I used to 2024-08-01 Timeline Taxi: chapter 4 2024-07-29 Improved lazy loading 2024-07-26 Timeline Taxi: chapter 3 2024-07-26 It's all just text 2024-07-19 Timeline Taxi: chapter 2 2024-07-18 array\_find in PHP 8.4 2024-07-16 HTML 5 support in PHP 8.4 2024-07-12 Timeline Taxi: chapter 1 2024-07-11 New without parentheses in PHP 8.4 2024-07-09 You should 2024-07-08 PHP version stats: July, 2024 2024-07-03 A vocal minority 2024-06-26 Leaving Twitter 2024-05-24 Tagged Singletons 2024-03-23 PHP in 2024 2024-03-22 Testing Patterns 2024-03-16 Building a custom language in tempest/highlight 2024-03-15 A syntax highlighter that doesn't suck 2024-02-19 The framework that gets out of your way 2024-01-29 PHP version stats: January, 2024 2023-12-13 Passion projects 2023-12-12 I don't know 2023-11-23 What's new in PHP 8.3 2023-08-15 The RFC Vote project 2023-07-06 "Is A" or "Acts As" 2023-07-01 PHP version stats: July, 2023 2023-06-21 #\[Override\] in PHP 8.3 2023-06-02 Don't be clever 2023-05-30 Building a procedurally generated game with PHP 2023-05-02 Things considered harmful 2023-03-22 Limited by committee 2023-03-20 Cloning readonly properties in PHP 8.3 2023-03-15 Thank you, Kinsta 2023-02-20 Slashdash 2023-02-10 I'm a light schemer 2023-02-06 I'm a code folder 2023-01-29 Acronyms 2023-01-28 Fonts matter 2023-01-27 My top-10 favourite functions in PHP 2023-01-24 Why curly brackets go on new lines 2023-01-21 Sponsors 2023-01-20 Tabs are better 2023-01-17 PHP in 2023 2023-01-11 PHP version stats: January, 2023 2023-01-09 Upgrading to PHP 8.2 2023-01-03 All I want for Christmas… 2022-12-08 What's new in PHP 8.2 2022-11-19 You cannot find me on Mastodon 2022-11-08 PHP Annotated, the YouTube channel 2022-11-01 Upgrade to PHP 8.2 with Homebrew on Mac 2022-11-01 Deprecating spatie/data-transfer-object 2022-10-25 Readonly classes in PHP 8.2 2022-10-24 PHP 8.2 in 8 code blocks 2022-09-09 Uses 2022-08-25 Asymmetric visions 2022-08-17 What I would change about PHP 2022-08-08 Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2 2022-07-30 Light colour schemes are better 2022-07-25 PHP performance across versions 2022-07-21 The Road to PHP 8.2 2022-07-16 Uncertainty, doubt, and static analysis 2022-07-15 The evolution of a PHP object throughout the years 2022-06-27 PHP version stats: July, 2022 2022-06-16 Stitcher turns 5 🎉 2022-06-08 Clean and minimalistic PhpStorm 2022-05-30 My PHP enum style guide 2022-05-20 Attribute usage in top-1000 PHP packages 2022-05-18 Dealing with deprecations 2022-04-06 Dynamic Strategies 2022-03-25 The case for PHP generics 2022-03-25 Goodbye 2022-03-24 Why we can't have generics in PHP 2022-03-23 Generics in depth 2022-03-22 Generics in PHP: The basics 2022-01-24 PHP in 2021 (video) 2022-01-19 Dealing with dependencies 2022-01-15 "It's your fault" 2022-01-14 Twitter home made me miserable 2022-01-13 How I plan 2022-01-11 PHP in 2022 2022-01-10 PHP version stats: January, 2022 2021-11-26 Upgrade to PHP 8.1 with Homebrew on Mac 2021-11-25 What's new in PHP 8.1 2021-11-25 PHP 8.1: real-life performance benchmarks 2021-11-07 PHP 8.1 in 8 code blocks 2021-11-06 Generics in PHP (video) 2021-10-27 The case for route attributes 2021-10-09 PHP 8.1: new in initializers 2021-09-16 The birth and death of a framework 2021-09-11 PHP 8.1: readonly properties 2021-09-01 My IKEA clock, and software design 2021-08-31 re: On using PSR abstractions 2021-08-26 Named arguments and open source projects 2021-08-25 Rational thinking 2021-08-13 Why do I write? 2021-08-06 The Road to PHP 8.1 2021-07-26 We don't need runtime type checks 2021-07-23 Would you like some optimism or realism with your estimate, sir? 2021-07-16 PHP 8.1: before and after 2021-07-14 An event-driven mindset 2021-07-06 PHP 8.1: cloning and changing readonly properties 2021-06-29 What about typed request classes? 2021-06-28 PHP version stats: July, 2021 2021-06-23 Opinion-driven design 2021-06-18 What about config builders? 2021-06-15 A new major version of Laravel Event Sourcing 2021-06-03 Why we need multi-line short closures in PHP 2021-04-28 Running PHP code in parallel, the easy way 2021-04-15 PHP in 2021 2021-04-12 Fibers with a grain of salt 2021-04-09 Starting with event sourcing 2021-04-08 Thoughts on Event Sourcing 2021-03-31 Honesty 2021-03-25 Don't write your own framework 2021-02-17 PHP Enums before PHP 8.1 2021-02-17 PHP 8.1: Enums 2021-01-20 A storm in a glass of water 2021-01-13 PHP reimagined 2021-01-10 Websites should be more like Star Wars 2020-12-31 How to be right on the internet 2020-11-29 When I lost a few hundred leads 2020-11-28 Announcing Blogs for Devs 2020-11-26 What's new in PHP 8 2020-11-26 Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac 2020-11-17 PHP 8: the null safe operator 2020-10-29 PHP 8: How to setup the JIT 2020-10-05 Front Line PHP 2020-10-02 What a good PR looks like 2020-09-26 Scopes in JetBrains IDEs 2020-09-26 Which colour scheme is better? 2020-09-17 The case for transpiled generics in PHP 2020-09-03 PHP 8: Attributes 2020-08-29 Don't get stuck 2020-08-28 Annotations 2020-08-21 Differences 2020-07-25 My journey into event sourcing 2020-07-23 PHP 8: named arguments 2020-07-20 PHP 8: before and after 2020-07-14 Shorthand comparisons in PHP 2020-07-11 Why we need named arguments in PHP 2020-07-08 PHP 8: match or switch? 2020-07-02 PHP 8: JIT performance in real-life web applications 2020-06-27 Braille, and the evolution of software development 2020-06-23 Abstract resources in Laravel Nova 2020-06-12 PHP 8: Constructor property promotion 2020-06-09 Survey results: type systems in PHP 2020-06-05 What does array + do in PHP? 2020-06-05 How to merge multidimensional arrays in PHP? 2020-06-03 Survey: type systems in PHP 2020-05-26 Improvements on Laravel Nova 2020-05-23 PHP 7.4 in 7 code blocks 2020-05-21 The IKEA effect 2020-05-20 Builders and architects: two types of programmers 2020-05-15 PHP 8 in 8 code blocks 2020-05-14 array\_chunk in PHP 2020-04-14 Combining event sourcing and stateful systems 2020-03-26 Minor versions, breaking changes 2020-03-13 Event driven server in PHP 2020-02-14 Bitwise booleans in PHP 2020-02-01 Enums without enums in PHP 2020-01-17 PHP in 2020 2020-01-10 Preloading benchmarks in PHP 7.4 2019-11-28 Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac 2019-11-26 What's new in PHP 7.4 2019-11-09 Relationship issues 2019-11-08 Laravel's HasManyThrough cheatsheet 2019-11-07 Can I translate your blog? 2019-09-16 Guest posts 2019-08-29 re: re: A letter to the PHP team 2019-08-28 A letter to the PHP team 2019-07-30 Things dependency injection is not about 2019-07-05 Preloading in PHP 7.4 2019-06-30 Typed properties in PHP 7.4 2019-06-07 Tests and types 2019-06-05 What are objects anyway? - Rant With Brent 02 2019-05-30 A project at Spatie 2019-05-14 I'm starting a podcast 2019-05-10 PHP in 2019 2019-05-07 SOLID, interfaces and final - Rant With Brent 01 2019-05-02 Arrow functions in PHP 7.4 2019-04-26 I'm starting a newsletter 2019-04-10 Unsafe SQL functions in Laravel 2019-04-01 Array destructuring in PHP 2019-03-21 Upgrade to PHP 7.3 with Homebrew on Mac 2019-03-11 Queueable actions in Laravel 2019-02-21 Craftsmen know their tools 2019-02-06 PHP 8: The JIT 2019-01-29 I'm building something 2019-01-22 Analytics for developers 2019-01-15 Share a blog: sebastiandedeyne 2018-12-21 Comparing dates 2018-12-20 Have you thought about casing? 2018-12-15 Share a blog: betterwebtype 2018-12-06 New in PHP 7.3 2018-11-14 Share a blog: codingwriter.com 2018-11-11 Structuring unstructured data 2018-10-26 PhpStorm OSX performance: October 2018 2018-10-25 Share a blog: assertchris.io 2018-10-24 array\_merge or + in PHP 2018-10-16 Organise by domain 2018-10-16 Laravel view models vs. view composers 2018-09-10 Laravel view models 2018-08-27 Eloquent MySQL views 2018-08-15 The web in 2045 2018-08-10 Service locator: an anti-pattern 2018-06-09 The Visual Perception of Code 2018-06-05 Acquisition by giants 2018-05-19 Liskov and type safety 2018-04-30 Dependency injection for beginners 2018-04-25 PHPStorm performance issues on OSX 2018-04-15 What PHP can be 2018-03-15 PHPStorm tips for power users 2018-03-07 Responsive images done right 2018-02-13 Showing full MySQL foreign key errors 2018-01-20 MySQL query logging 2018-01-16 Where a curly bracket belongs 2018-01-09 MySQL import: JSON with binary character set 2017-12-24 Asynchronous PHP 2017-11-29 Optimised UUIDs in mysql 2017-10-22 Improving PHPStorm's performance 2017-08-27 Stitcher beta 2 2017-08-25 Mastering key bindings 2017-06-25 A programmer's cognitive load 2017-06-24 Responsive images as CSS background 2017-06-17 Object oriented generators 2017-06-09 Process forks 2017-05-30 Performance 101: building the better web 2017-05-25 Array objects 2017-05-20 Stitcher beta 1 2017-05-17 PHP Generics and why we need them 2017-05-01 Stitcher alpha 5 2017-04-27 The simplest plugin support 2017-04-21 Stitcher alpha 4 2017-03-02 Static site generators vs. caching 2017-02-26 Image optimizers 2017-02-18 Tackling responsive images - part 2 2017-02-17 Tackling responsive images - part 1 2015-08-24 Which editor to choose?

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