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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Aug 15

It's starting to get pretty close to perfect.

Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Aug 14

I've spent about 10 hours this week rewriting Phiki's tokenizer so that it's more compatible with TextMate grammars.

Safe to say that it's going well so far...

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Aug 7

Enabling WAL mode with SQLite in Laravel ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/enabli...

Enabling WAL mode with SQLite in Laravel

Exploring software development with PHP, JavaScript, Rust, and beyond.

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Christoph Rumpel @christophrumpel.bsky.social · Jul 1

📺 Here is What's New in Laravel 12.13

➡️ Named Queued Closures
➡️ Assert Redirect Back

Thank you Will & @ryangjchandler.co.uk 🙏

youtu.be/dri0BgJjB_w

Named Queued Closures & New Assert Redirect Back in Laravel 12.13

YouTube video by Laravel

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jun 5

This also gave me an excuse to test how well my cross-video fade transitions are working inside of my video editor.

Not bad by the looks of it!

Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jun 5

Came across a cool utility class in Laravel called: "Timebox".

Not sure how many people know about this one so though I'd throw together a little video.

Let me know what you think!

youtu.be/jUF5LZ-cQQ4

Laravel's Timebox Explained FAST!

YouTube video by Ryan Chandler

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · May 23

So I built a video editor, sort of. I wanted to test it out and actually put something together with it, so here's a ~70s video about the upcoming "pipe" or "pipeline" operator in PHP 8.5!

youtu.be/2H-BOLS-L78?...

PIPELINES coming to PHP 8.5!?

YouTube video by Ryan Chandler

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 27

I am become one with the lunch break.

(great idea btw)

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 25

Yeah, I've used a macro before to enter my password but that's janky and doesn't always work because Bluetooth doesn't like me.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 25

Even second hand keyboards still run for £60 or so, plus I want the smaller one because the Touch ID board is smaller.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 25

Yeah, I just want a tiny little module that goes on my desk or on the side of my keyboard.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 25

Am I an idiot if I buy a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID just to rip out the Touch ID sensor and have it sit on my desk so I don't have to type my password in all the damn time?

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 13

Little preview of some PXP progress I've made over the last few weeks... 👀

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 13

I won't be working on PXP as part of my role, but I am still working on PXP in my spare time. More info on that coming soon!

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 12

Thanks Karl!

Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 12

Tomorrow is my first day as a Laravel employee!

I'm incredibly, incredibly excited and grateful to be joining the team and to be working alongside an uber talented team of developers.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 4

What I'd really be interested in, in the future, is a compiler for PHP. If I can write the same language for web applications, scripts _and_ systems-level things, I think my (programming) life would be complete tbh.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 4

I wouldn't say the project is dead, just on hold. The idea of a superset language is still really interesting, but at the same time I think there's a lot more movement on the PHP internals now with features that I'd add through a superset, so it doesn't make too much sense.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 4

The short explanation is a fast static analyser (focus on type checking right now) and a language server built on the same engine. This should bring PHPStorm level intellisense to other editors, if not better than PHPStorm. Foundational tools for PHP development imo.

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 3

Lol, this would also be quite a good video I guess!

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 3

I like the idea of short videos because they're easy to consume.

Most of the stuff I'm doing in my spare time is PXP-focused, so perhaps 15-30 min videos of me working on a particular feature could be interesting?

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Jan 3

I'd like to get back into making video content on YouTube, it's been a couple of years since I've done it so I'm curious about what sort of content people would be interested in?

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PHP Stoke @phpstoke.co.uk · Jan 2

We're hosting a Q&A with members of the Laravel team on the 16th Jan. If you have any burning questions for Joe Dixon, @iamdavidhill.bsky.social, @ryangjchandler.co.uk or @jbrooks.uk please submit them to us!
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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Dec 28

Cheers Duncan!

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Ryan Chandler @ryangjchandler.co.uk · Dec 28

Still a few days left of the year, but wanted to get this out before I forget. Happy new year everybody, bring on 2025!

ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/2024-a...

2024: A year in review

Exploring software development with PHP, JavaScript, Rust, and beyond.

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