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on Jun. 23, 2021
I once worked at a company that wrote and maintained an in-house framework. Over the course of ten years, they probably made around 250 websites and applications with it. Despite many shortcomings, the company kept using their framework for a simple reason: they were in control. Thanks to that cont…
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on Jun. 18, 2021
I've been tinkering with a hobby project lately: a small framework to get more familiar with PHP 8, and try out some random ideas floating in my head. It's nothing too serious, but it's a fun exercise. Most of these ideas are born from my daily experience with Laravel, and more specifically from th…
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on Jun. 15, 2021
Today, we released a new version of spatie/laravel-event-sourcing, version 5 is probably one of the largest releases since the beginning of the package, we've worked several months on it and have been testing it extensively already in our own projects. Credit where credit is due, many new features…
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on Jun. 3, 2021
PHP 8.1 is already taking shape quite well, yet there's one feature I'd love to see added, that's still being discussed: multi-line short closures. The RFC calls them "Auto-capturing multi-statement closures" but I hope you don't mind me using the somewhat shorter name. If you're on an actively sup…
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on Apr. 28, 2021
Less is more. You've heard that before, right? Keep it in mind, I'm going to show you something. There are a few good and robust solutions to run PHP code in parallel already; and yet, we've made our own implementation. I want to explain why. First, let's set the scene: I want to run PHP code in pa…
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on Apr. 15, 2021
Once a year, I look back at the recent developments in the PHP world, and also look forward to what's to come. And just like in 2020 and 2019, we're at it again! Like I said time and time again: PHP isn't the same language it was ten years ago, and we're very thankful for that. It's a fast and reli…