Brent
@brendt.bsky.social
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
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)
- 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)
PHP 8.5 will release this week. Here's what's new: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73782
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
aggregate.stitcher.io
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
PHP 8.5 will release this week. Here's what's new: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73782
Do you use PHP JIT in production?
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Do you use PHP JIT in production?
I think this has the potential to move PHP forward significantly: stitcher.io/blog/game-ch...
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
stitcher.io
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I think this has the potential to move PHP forward significantly: stitcher.io/blog/game-ch...
This was a really interesting post to read: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73771
Lessons from the deep end - Insights
20 months ago, we started building Performance Monitoring as Flare’s next big feature, never expecting Laravel’s rapid commercial growth to put us in direct competition with their own tools. This is o...
aggregate.stitcher.io
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This was a really interesting post to read: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73771
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Some PhpStorm plugins you might not know: blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/202...
PhpStorm Plugins You Might Not Know | The PhpStorm Blog
PhpStorm comes with a ton of built-in features, and you can add even more with plugins. They bring new languages, tools, and small improvements that make everyday coding smoother. Many of the best
blog.jetbrains.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Some PhpStorm plugins you might not know: blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/202...
Here's my wishlist for PHP in 2026. I don't think I'm asking too much, what do you think? 😇
stitcher.io/blog/my-wish...
stitcher.io/blog/my-wish...
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
stitcher.io
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Here's my wishlist for PHP in 2026. I don't think I'm asking too much, what do you think? 😇
stitcher.io/blog/my-wish...
stitcher.io/blog/my-wish...
I have only FOUR items on my "PHP wishlist". Can you guess which ones they are? 😇
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have only FOUR items on my "PHP wishlist". Can you guess which ones they are? 😇
I wrote down some thoughts about my hope for #PHP open source: stitcher.io/blog/sponsor...
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
stitcher.io
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I wrote down some thoughts about my hope for #PHP open source: stitcher.io/blog/sponsor...
A new Tempest blog post :) aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73720
RE: the journey this far — Tempest
Replying to someone trying out Tempest
aggregate.stitcher.io
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A new Tempest blog post :) aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73720
Reposted by Brent
RE: the journey this far — Tempest
Replying to someone trying out Tempest
tempestphp.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Which one is your favorite design? You can vote by adding a 👍 to the comments: github.com/php/web-php/...
🗳️ [VOTING] PHP 8.5 Release Page Design Contest · Issue #1563 · php/web-php
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted their designs! Together with the jury we carefully reviewed all entries and selected a shortlist. Our main criteria were how well the task was understood,...
github.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Which one is your favorite design? You can vote by adding a 👍 to the comments: github.com/php/web-php/...
This was a super interesting read: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73701
Build Your Own Database
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.
aggregate.stitcher.io
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This was a super interesting read: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73701
symfony/polyfill is downloaded so much that its download count doesn't fit on a single line anymore 😂
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
symfony/polyfill is downloaded so much that its download count doesn't fit on a single line anymore 😂
I think this is one of my favorite personal blog posts of all time :D stitcher.io/blog/procedu...
Building a procedurally generated game with PHP - stitcher.io
I wrote a procedurally generated game from scratch
stitcher.io
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I think this is one of my favorite personal blog posts of all time :D stitcher.io/blog/procedu...
The state of PHP in 2025: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73436
The State of PHP 2025 – Expert review
Explore trends in the PHP ecosystem based on the State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025 by JetBrains.
aggregate.stitcher.io
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The state of PHP in 2025: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73436
Timeline Taxi is nearing its one year anniversary. I'm preparing something awesome!
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Timeline Taxi is nearing its one year anniversary. I'm preparing something awesome!
New video is out about developer experience and desire paths: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxE...
About developer experience
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
New video is out about developer experience and desire paths: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxE...
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?
Should we just lock QA tools to a fixed version?
October 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Unbelievable…
RFC is withdrawn. Apparently I opened a real can of worms there. But I agree with you 😭
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Unbelievable…
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.
@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.
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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.
@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.
This is what OAuth support looks like in Tempest 2.2.
I think it's pretty 🤩
I think it's pretty 🤩
October 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is what OAuth support looks like in Tempest 2.2.
I think it's pretty 🤩
I think it's pretty 🤩
The PHP Foundation is hosting a design competition for the PHP 8.5 release page. Grand price is $1k!
aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73391
aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73391
Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
aggregate.stitcher.io
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The PHP Foundation is hosting a design competition for the PHP 8.5 release page. Grand price is $1k!
aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73391
aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73391