Ryan Chandler
ryangjchandler.co.uk
Ryan Chandler
@ryangjchandler.co.uk
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Software Engineer. PHP, Laravel, Rust, Go, Swift, the lot. https://ryangjchandler.co.uk
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It's starting to get pretty close to perfect.
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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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!
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!

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Laravel's Timebox Explained FAST!
YouTube video by Ryan Chandler
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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!

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PIPELINES coming to PHP 8.5!?
YouTube video by Ryan Chandler
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I am become one with the lunch break.

(great idea btw)
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.
Even second hand keyboards still run for £60 or so, plus I want the smaller one because the Touch ID board is smaller.
Yeah, I just want a tiny little module that goes on my desk or on the side of my keyboard.
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?
Little preview of some PXP progress I've made over the last few weeks... 👀
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lol, this would also be quite a good video I guess!
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?
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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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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