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New book: https://things-i-wish-i-knew.com/ https://timeline-taxi.com https://tempestphp.com https://stitcher.io Developer Advocate for PHP @jetbrains.com

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · Nov 3

👋 To people considering following me, here's what you can expect from me on bsky:

- Tempest, a PHP framework me and others are building
- PHP in general, new updates, opinions, …
- Timeline Taxi, a sci-fi novel I've recently published (and who knows if there's more to come)

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 1d

New video is out about developer experience and desire paths: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxE...

About developer experience

YouTube video by PHP Annotated

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 3d

Good to know that others are doing this as well, thanks!

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 3d

Just as an example, this is the latest issue: github.com/sebastianber...

I don't think anyone is _at fault_, but it's pretty annoying having to deal with broken CI pipelines out of nowhere.

PHPUnit 12.2.0 breaks Rector test case · Issue #6381 · sebastianbergmann/phpunit

I'm coming with a humble request to fix Rector test case. This commit in 12.2.0 preloads 3 packages that now trigger nikic/php-parser autoload: dea8cff SebastianBergmann\CodeCoverage SebastianBergm...

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 3d

I'm curious how other #PHP #OSS devs deal with this: every other month or so, our CI pipeline breaks because one of our QA packages introduced a bug or incompatibility with another QA package (PHPUnit, PHPStan, Rector, and Mago).

Should we just lock QA tools to a fixed version?

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 4d

And will they reply publicly?

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 4d

Unbelievable…

🥧 asgrim 🇺🇦 @asgrim.dev · 4d

RFC is withdrawn. Apparently I opened a real can of worms there. But I agree with you 😭

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 4d

Death by Committee 🪦

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 5d

I definitely agree, but… it's 2025, how come this takes so long 😅

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[RFC] [Discussion] Deprecate PEAR and recommend Composer - Externals

#externals - Opening PHP's #internals to the outside

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 9d

I'm working on support for
@dunglas.dev FrankenPHP with Tempest. Preliminary testing shows 93.55 rps with worker mode vs 11.59 rps via nginx. Still lots of testing and finetuning to do, but this will likely be the default way to host Tempest apps in production.

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 11d

Moving PHP open source forward.

blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/202...

Moving PHP open source forward | The PhpStorm Blog

Explore our new round of sponsorships, as well as a more structured approach towards new PHP open source sponsorships in the future.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 11d

😏

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 12d

You can read all about it here: tempestphp.com/blog/oauth-i...

OAuth in Tempest 2.2 — Tempest

Tempest 2.2 gets a new OAuth integration which makes authentication super simple

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 12d

This is what OAuth support looks like in Tempest 2.2.

I think it's pretty 🤩

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 12d

The PHP Foundation is hosting a design competition for the PHP 8.5 release page. Grand price is $1k!

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Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 12d

Ah, in that case it might be a bug with RR indeed :) You can make an issue for it here: youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?pro...

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

You know, don't mind me doing my casual code reviews 😇

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

Types are documentation: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73333

Types are documentation | BackEndTea

Having proper types helps you during runtime, but even more importantly, its a kind of documentation.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 14d

Chasing bugs down rabbit holes: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/24091

Chasing bugs down rabbit holes — Tempest

I had to debug the most interesting bug in Tempest to date.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 14d

Are you talking about that upper-left run button? It's very specific to PhpStorm indeed because it runs code on 3v4l.org. It's a pretty neat feature because you can run PHP scratch files from anywhere without needing a local PHP installation. My guess is that's why there's no button in RR

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Hal Gumbert 🌴🧑🏼‍💻 @halgumbert.bsky.social · 15d

PHPStorm always surprises me. Found I can copy code from one system, jump to another and do a diff with the clipboard!

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 14d

Indeed, that's not ideal. I'll ask the support team whether there's a way to clean these up.

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 15d

What's your motivator? aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73358

What's your motivator? - stitcher.io

A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 15d

Here's the XL version (7x10", 256 pages): amazon.com/Things-wish-...

Here's the normal one (6x9", 122 pages):
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Things I wish to know: Notebook XL

XL Notebook for https://things-i-wish-i-knew.com/

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 15d

When I wrote about impact charts, I really missed a proper dot-grid notebook to keep track of mine. So I made one. If you read the "Things I wish I knew" book, really liked it, and want to support me, I made two versions of that notebook for sale (normal and XL, banana for scale)

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 16d

Packagist’s call for sustainable open source: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/27513

A Call for Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure

Today, we joined other major package registries in signing an important joint statement on sustainable stewardship of open source infrastructure. Together with Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Open VSX...

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