Hi

It feels like it's been a while since I wrote about Tempest? Nevertheless, there's great news: we've just tagged the new 3.0 release, we're working on our roadmap for the coming months, and we've added another core contributor! Slowly but surely, Tempest feels like it's getting to a really great place, more and more people are using it, and more and more people are contributing. If you've been here for a while you know how proud I am of where the project has gotten, and that feeling is only growing stronger.

After getting so many positive responses about my performance optimization quest, I wanted to do something special with the community. That's why I've been working on organizing a kind of performance optimization challenge. It's still a work in progress, but the idea is that you'll have to solve a challenge in the fastest way possible with PHP. The winner gets a prize. Simple, right? Well, I hope it will be a fun challenge for the community to come together; I'll keep you posted about it!

From the feed

• Selfish AI — Larry shares his concerns about AI usage. It's a tricky topic, but I think it's good to give both sides room to voice their opinions.
• Freek built a mobile word game in two weeks.
• PHPStan on steroids — massive performance improvements to PHPStan.
• Vertical tabs in Chrome — I haven't used them yet, but think I will.
• My newest video about the performance quest.
• spatie/laravel-screenshot — a new Spatie package drops!
• AutoMapper 10.0 is released

That's it for this newsletter, have a great weekend!

Brent