Yannick
@osteel.bsky.social
Backend consultant at Yellow Raincoat Ltd. Organiser of @phpsussex.uk. I post in French once in a while
Petition for a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins in the UK
Petition: Set out a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins
Publish a strategy for blockchain & stablecoins. We want this to:
1. Drive a pro-innovation stablecoin & tokenisation regulatory regime e.g. support interest bearing stablecoins & preserve role as wholesale settlement asset
2. Explore Govt uses for blockchain
3. Appoint a blockchain & crypto czar
petition.parliament.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Petition for a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins in the UK
The way I see it, PHP is getting torn apart between JavaScript and Python. The former because of some outdated reputation, the latter because of lacking "AI" support. Fight the former with a rebranding, bring in decent AI support, and PHP could easily regain its rightful place
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The way I see it, PHP is getting torn apart between JavaScript and Python. The former because of some outdated reputation, the latter because of lacking "AI" support. Fight the former with a rebranding, bring in decent AI support, and PHP could easily regain its rightful place
Anyone knows if Laravel Live UK is happening next year? Feels like it should have been announced by now 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Anyone knows if Laravel Live UK is happening next year? Feels like it should have been announced by now 🤔
This is part of the PHP rebrand discussion, in my opinion. In this case, so PHP developers aren't forced to look into Python
Incalculable Risk — Why PHP needs first-class Machine Intelligence
Confucius: Study the past, if you would divine the future …
medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is part of the PHP rebrand discussion, in my opinion. In this case, so PHP developers aren't forced to look into Python
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📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 12 November, Yannick Chenot @osteel.bsky.social will help us navigate our maze-like code bases with the Closed-by-Default Principle.
This one won't be live-streamed so come Join us in Brighton!
📅 Details and registration 👇
www.meetup.com/php-s...
#php
This one won't be live-streamed so come Join us in Brighton!
📅 Details and registration 👇
www.meetup.com/php-s...
#php
Escaping the Code Maze, Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Winter is almost upon us which means it’s time to cue up the final PHP Sussex session of 2025!
In ‘Escaping the Code Maze’, back end consultant and PHP Sussex Host [Yannic
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November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 12 November, Yannick Chenot @osteel.bsky.social will help us navigate our maze-like code bases with the Closed-by-Default Principle.
This one won't be live-streamed so come Join us in Brighton!
📅 Details and registration 👇
www.meetup.com/php-s...
#php
This one won't be live-streamed so come Join us in Brighton!
📅 Details and registration 👇
www.meetup.com/php-s...
#php
The phase about preparing a talk that I dread the most – the first few practice rounds. I always feel like I’m in way above my head and that I will never remember all that text 🫠
October 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The phase about preparing a talk that I dread the most – the first few practice rounds. I always feel like I’m in way above my head and that I will never remember all that text 🫠
The State of PHP 2025
The State of PHP 2025 – Expert review
Explore trends in the PHP ecosystem based on the State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025 by JetBrains.
blog.jetbrains.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The State of PHP 2025
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📢 Did you miss @danjohnson.xyz 's talk on character encoding last month?
👀 The recording of the session is now available!
www.youtube.com/watc...
⚡ It follows a lightning talk by Adria Figueres on the impostor syndrome
👀 The recording of the session is now available!
www.youtube.com/watc...
⚡ It follows a lightning talk by Adria Figueres on the impostor syndrome
Encoding Explained & Debugging Self-Doubt: Beating Imposter Syndrome | PHP Sussex
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October 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
📢 Did you miss @danjohnson.xyz 's talk on character encoding last month?
👀 The recording of the session is now available!
www.youtube.com/watc...
⚡ It follows a lightning talk by Adria Figueres on the impostor syndrome
👀 The recording of the session is now available!
www.youtube.com/watc...
⚡ It follows a lightning talk by Adria Figueres on the impostor syndrome
My current problem is that any AI-powered workflow I identify as interesting/viable seems to become obsolete before I find the time to give it a proper try
September 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My current problem is that any AI-powered workflow I identify as interesting/viable seems to become obsolete before I find the time to give it a proper try
Wouldn’t necessarily structure everything the exact same way, but this is a good, straightforward introduction to the hexagonal architecture in Laravel
🚀 Hexagonal Architecture in Laravel: Scaling Beyond MVC
💡 Quick note before we dive in:
I regularly share practical and insightful programming tips — from books, official docs, and trusted…
medium.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Wouldn’t necessarily structure everything the exact same way, but this is a good, straightforward introduction to the hexagonal architecture in Laravel
Enjoyed reading Luke Harries (Growth Lead at ElevenLabs)’ recent articles on startup growth https://harries.co
September 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Enjoyed reading Luke Harries (Growth Lead at ElevenLabs)’ recent articles on startup growth https://harries.co
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PHP Sussex has a new look! @jobyh.bsky.social's been busy and delivered a sleek new design 💅 https://phpsussex.uk
September 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
PHP Sussex has a new look! @jobyh.bsky.social's been busy and delivered a sleek new design 💅 https://phpsussex.uk
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⏰ One week to go before our next meetup! Dan Johnson @danjohnson.xyz will demystify character encoding after a lightning talk about the impostor syndrome.
Can't join in person? Join us online! All the details are in the meetup's description 👇
Can't join in person? Join us online! All the details are in the meetup's description 👇
September | Encoding Explained + Debugging Self-Doubt, Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
This September we’re lucky to have two fantastic speakers. Following his talk on hardware at Laravel Live UK this summer, Laravel scene regular [Dan Johnson](https://x.com/
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September 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
⏰ One week to go before our next meetup! Dan Johnson @danjohnson.xyz will demystify character encoding after a lightning talk about the impostor syndrome.
Can't join in person? Join us online! All the details are in the meetup's description 👇
Can't join in person? Join us online! All the details are in the meetup's description 👇
In case that's helpful, I've just realised you can reference existing chats in ChatGPT, which I find is a good way to create "checkpoints" (continue a chat in a different window to avoid polluting the original one, that you might want to preserve)
September 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In case that's helpful, I've just realised you can reference existing chats in ChatGPT, which I find is a good way to create "checkpoints" (continue a chat in a different window to avoid polluting the original one, that you might want to preserve)
Interesting stuff. Didn't know you could send values to a generator 😮
Exploring Coroutines in PHP
Coroutines are functions that pause and resume with state, allowing flexible, bidirectional control flow in PHP.
doeken.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting stuff. Didn't know you could send values to a generator 😮
This is very much in line with how I feel about the programming industry at the moment
Full-breadth Developers
The software industry is at an inflection point unlike anything in its brief history. Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It has rendered entire product…
justin.searls.co
August 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is very much in line with how I feel about the programming industry at the moment
I read this and suddenly feel very tired
GPT-5 prompting guide | OpenAI Cookbook
GPT-5, our newest flagship model, represents a substantial leap forward in agentic task performance, coding, raw intelligence, and steera...
cookbook.openai.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I read this and suddenly feel very tired
So are we basically at the stage where we need a Claude Code subscription (with MCP integrations) for high-level tasks, a Cursor one for hands-on coding, and a ChatGPT one for deep research?
August 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
So are we basically at the stage where we need a Claude Code subscription (with MCP integrations) for high-level tasks, a Cursor one for hands-on coding, and a ChatGPT one for deep research?
I like this a lot 👀 blog.laravel.com/eve...
Everything We Announced at Laracon US 2025
All the highlights from Laracon 2025, including Laravel Cloud autoscaling, Forge upgrades, framework changes, and Nightwatch pricing.
blog.laravel.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I like this a lot 👀 blog.laravel.com/eve...
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Incredibly interesting article, and one that shows that it should be possible to build amazing interactive web pages using just PHP, no React, Vue or similar www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/...
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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The Pipe Operator will make a significant improvement to the readability of our #php code. Composition will never look the same.
Check out the difference with an interactive example:
Check out the difference with an interactive example:
Pipe Operator
Explore how a native pipe operator could improve code readability and composition in PHP. Understand current alternatives and what future implementation might look like.
acairns.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Really need to find some time to have a play with FrankenPHP vulke.medium.com/fra...
FrankenPHP vs PHP-FPM: Benchmarks, Surprises, and One Clear Winner
FrankenPHP just got serious — backed by the PHP Foundation and promising to ditch Nginx and FPM entirely. I benchmarked it against the…
vulke.medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Really need to find some time to have a play with FrankenPHP vulke.medium.com/fra...
More than a month old (which is a long time in this space) but still very relevant. Feels like sceptic voices got quieter lately though, but maybe that’s just my echo chambers fly.io/blog/youre-al...
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
July 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
More than a month old (which is a long time in this space) but still very relevant. Feels like sceptic voices got quieter lately though, but maybe that’s just my echo chambers fly.io/blog/youre-al...
"The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold. That self never arrived."
www.joanwestenberg.c...
www.joanwestenberg.c...
I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
www.joanwestenberg.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold. That self never arrived."
www.joanwestenberg.c...
www.joanwestenberg.c...
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This is one of the best release notes I've read this year.
github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer...
Congratulations to the release of PHP 8.4 support <3
github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer...
Congratulations to the release of PHP 8.4 support <3
Release v3.80.0 Alexander · PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
Long-awaiting official support for PHP 8.4 in PHP-CS-Fixer is finally here 🥳! We know, it's long overdue, but for a reason... Let us explain a bit, for transparency and clean atmosphere around the ...
github.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is one of the best release notes I've read this year.
github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer...
Congratulations to the release of PHP 8.4 support <3
github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer...
Congratulations to the release of PHP 8.4 support <3