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on Mar. 23, 2022
I showed a very boring example of generics in the previous post, we’re going to do better in this one. $users = new Collection<User>(); $slugs = new Collection<string>(); Collections; they are probably the easiest way to explain what generics are about, but they also are the example tha…
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on Mar. 22, 2022
Generics in PHP. I know I’d want them. And I know a lot of developers who agree. On the other hand, there is a group of PHP programmers, maybe even larger, that say they don’t know what generics are, or why they should care. I’m going to do a series on this blog about generics and PHP. We’ll start…
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on Jan. 24, 2022
Back in December, I made this video looking back on PHP in 2021. You can watch it (make sure to like and subscribe if you liked it), or you can read the transcript here if you don't like watching videos. It’s the end of 2021 and I still hear some people say they think PHP is dead. They are wrong,…
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on Jan. 19, 2022
This post was originally sent to my newsletter. I've written a lot about PHP 8.1 these past months. Not just about the release itself, but also about how important it is to keep up-to-date with PHP versions. I don't want to leave you with empty words though, so I want to share some actionable advic…
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on Jan. 15, 2022
I read an intriguing blog post yesterday. It's on old one dating back to 2008, titled "Even if a function doesn’t do anything, you still have to call it if the documentation says so, because it might do something tomorrow". That's quite a mouthful, but the article itself is rather short, I can summ…
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on Jan. 14, 2022
This post was originally sent to my newsletter in November, 2021. I wanted to share it here as well, just to hear some more thoughts. Two months ago, I decided to give Twitter Home another chance: the timeline that Twitter fills using their algorithm instead of just chronologically showing tweets…