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New book: https://things-i-wish-i-knew.com/ https://timeline-taxi.com https://tempestphp.com https://stitcher.io Developer Advocate for PHP @jetbrains.com

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · Nov 3

👋 To people considering following me, here's what you can expect from me on bsky:

- Tempest, a PHP framework me and others are building
- PHP in general, new updates, opinions, …
- Timeline Taxi, a sci-fi novel I've recently published (and who knows if there's more to come)

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, the updated version is already available everywhere, just haven’t publicly announced it yet: timeline-taxi.com

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline Taxi is nearing its one year anniversary. I'm preparing something awesome!

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 2d

New video is out about developer experience and desire paths: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxE...

About developer experience

YouTube video by PHP Annotated

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 4d

Good to know that others are doing this as well, thanks!

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 4d

Just as an example, this is the latest issue: github.com/sebastianber...

I don't think anyone is _at fault_, but it's pretty annoying having to deal with broken CI pipelines out of nowhere.

PHPUnit 12.2.0 breaks Rector test case · Issue #6381 · sebastianbergmann/phpunit

I'm coming with a humble request to fix Rector test case. This commit in 12.2.0 preloads 3 packages that now trigger nikic/php-parser autoload: dea8cff SebastianBergmann\CodeCoverage SebastianBergm...

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 4d

I'm curious how other #PHP #OSS devs deal with this: every other month or so, our CI pipeline breaks because one of our QA packages introduced a bug or incompatibility with another QA package (PHPUnit, PHPStan, Rector, and Mago).

Should we just lock QA tools to a fixed version?

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 5d

And will they reply publicly?

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 5d

Unbelievable…

🥧 asgrim 🇺🇦 @asgrim.dev · 6d

RFC is withdrawn. Apparently I opened a real can of worms there. But I agree with you 😭

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 5d

Death by Committee 🪦

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 6d

I definitely agree, but… it's 2025, how come this takes so long 😅

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[RFC] [Discussion] Deprecate PEAR and recommend Composer - Externals

#externals - Opening PHP's #internals to the outside

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 10d

I'm working on support for
@dunglas.dev FrankenPHP with Tempest. Preliminary testing shows 93.55 rps with worker mode vs 11.59 rps via nginx. Still lots of testing and finetuning to do, but this will likely be the default way to host Tempest apps in production.

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 12d

Moving PHP open source forward.

blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/202...

Moving PHP open source forward | The PhpStorm Blog

Explore our new round of sponsorships, as well as a more structured approach towards new PHP open source sponsorships in the future.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

😏

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

You can read all about it here: tempestphp.com/blog/oauth-i...

OAuth in Tempest 2.2 — Tempest

Tempest 2.2 gets a new OAuth integration which makes authentication super simple

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

This is what OAuth support looks like in Tempest 2.2.

I think it's pretty 🤩

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

The PHP Foundation is hosting a design competition for the PHP 8.5 release page. Grand price is $1k!

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Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 13d

Ah, in that case it might be a bug with RR indeed :) You can make an issue for it here: youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?pro...

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 14d

You know, don't mind me doing my casual code reviews 😇

Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 14d

Types are documentation: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73333

Types are documentation | BackEndTea

Having proper types helps you during runtime, but even more importantly, its a kind of documentation.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 15d

Chasing bugs down rabbit holes: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/24091

Chasing bugs down rabbit holes — Tempest

I had to debug the most interesting bug in Tempest to date.

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 15d

Are you talking about that upper-left run button? It's very specific to PhpStorm indeed because it runs code on 3v4l.org. It's a pretty neat feature because you can run PHP scratch files from anywhere without needing a local PHP installation. My guess is that's why there's no button in RR