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Timeline Taxi: chapter 2
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Timeline Taxi: chapter 1
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A vocal minority
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Dynamic Strategies
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The case for PHP generics
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Goodbye
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PHP in 2022
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PHP 8.1 in 8 code blocks
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Generics in PHP (video)
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The case for route attributes
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PHP 8.1: new in initializers
2021-09-16
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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Named arguments and open source projects
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Rational thinking
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Why do I write?
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The Road to PHP 8.1
2021-07-26
We don't need runtime type checks
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PHP 8.1: before and after
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An event-driven mindset
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PHP 8.1: cloning and changing readonly properties
2021-06-29
What about typed request classes?
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PHP version stats: July, 2021
2021-06-23
Opinion-driven design
2021-06-18
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2021-06-15
A new major version of Laravel Event Sourcing
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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
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Don't write your own framework
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PHP Enums before PHP 8.1
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PHP 8.1: Enums
2021-01-20
A storm in a glass of water
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PHP reimagined
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How to be right on the internet
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When I lost a few hundred leads
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Announcing Blogs for Devs
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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
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PHP 8: How to setup the JIT
2020-10-05
Front Line PHP
2020-10-02
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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?
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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
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PHP 8: Constructor property promotion
2020-06-09
Survey results: type systems in PHP
2020-06-05
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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
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2019-09-16
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2019-08-29
re: re: A letter to the PHP team
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A letter to the PHP team
2019-07-30
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2019-07-05
Preloading in PHP 7.4
2019-06-30
Typed properties in PHP 7.4
2019-06-07
Tests and types
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2019-05-30
A project at Spatie
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PHP in 2019
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2019-05-02
Arrow functions in PHP 7.4
2019-04-26
I'm starting a newsletter
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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
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Analytics for developers
2019-01-15
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2018-12-20
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Structuring unstructured data
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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
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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
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