Made blog post for project structure make legacy code quick yo: www.dantleech.com/blog/2026/01...

Space - the Final Straw

Many projects I see are organised in a way seemingly advocated by the frameworks they use. This approach is generally: src/ Command/ CleanOrdersCommand.php Controller/ PlaceOrderController.php Form/ S...

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UK folks should sign this petition (which I know never makes a difference, because why would the government actually listen to people?) but worth a shot. Starting to see effects of this roll out and it's making me angry 🙄 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #OSA #OnlineSafetyAct #UK #UKPolitics

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk

The mago-analyzer PR is up! 🚀 It's still a work-in-progress before we merge, but all the details are inside. For the brave who wish to suffer, the code is available for your viewing pleasure. 🔗 github.com/carthage-sof... #php #rust #mago #staticanalysis 🐘🦀

feat: introduce codex, algebra, and analyzer by azjezz · Pull Request #230 · carthage-software/mago

This pull request introduces the new analyzer crate, along with its core dependencies: codex and algebra. This lays the foundational infrastructure for type analysis by defining the core data struc...

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I've been working on an DBGP (Xdebug) step-debugging TUI. It allows you to step forwards and backwards, shows inline values and has vim-like key bindings. This release includes a macos build. github.com/dantleech/de... #php #rust #xdebug

Oh look, my company's logo :)

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Bref Cloud - Serverless PHP hosting on AWS Lambda - powerful, scalable, simple – Bref

Deploy PHP applications on AWS Lambda for unlimited scalability and enterprise-grade reliability. Get all the power of serverless without the complexity.

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Why would I sign a contract and then ignore it? This feature seems odd, and not sure why so many people are voting yes. wiki.php.net/rfc/optional...

Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies.

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir

An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.

nytimes.com

I wouldn’t normally repost The Mail but… 🫡

Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Mail, a staunchly right-wing newspaper in the UK, uses their Sunday edition to lambast ‘bully’ Trump and call for his state visit to be scrapped.

Spent the day improving my workflow! Introducing the "wsdl inspect:ui" command which opens up a TUI to inspect what information we know about your WSDL. #php #soap

Really enjoyed giving this workshop on building an Expression Language!

nor(DEV): Norfolk Developers@nor.dev · 2y ago

Expression Languages? What are they, why are they, when are they?

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index

Running the Portland Coastal Marathon: www.dantleech.com/blog/2025/02...

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Looking forward to speaking about #PHP Value Obejcts and You 🫵 at DPC on the 21st of March!

Create an expression langauge in #php or another #programming language in one our or more (or read in 5 minutes or less) with my patented* expression langauge recipe (blog post) with added Godzilla: www.dantleech.com/blog/2025/01...

The One Hour Expression Language

This blog post is based on a talk I did entitled The One Hour Expression Language and aims to provide a review of both the concepts and the code in that talk1. An expression language2 in our sense is ...

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#PHP, DTOs, C-DTO, and You 🫵 a mildly opinionated blog post www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/12...

PHP, DTOs, C-DTO and You 🫵

In my previous post I talked about Value Objects in this post I will talk about DTOs - Data Transfer Objects. As a disclaimer the contents of this blog post represents my current opinion and any abuse...

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I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

So the EU has decided to standardize all chargers to USB C. That's great. Meantime in Brexit:

I got tired of mocking frameworks in class-based languages, so I created the simplest, most compatible, and most powerful mocking library that I could imagine. It's great for PHP / Java and other class-based languages. github.com/ShawnMcCool/...

GitHub - ShawnMcCool/ultra-mock: A mocking framework for testing any class-based programming language.

A mocking framework for testing any class-based programming language. - ShawnMcCool/ultra-mock

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As someone who deals with legal documents on a near-daily basis, this is accurate.

My Year in the Year 2024 in Years: www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/12...

The Year This Year of 2024

This is the year that was last year of the year, the year of the year, the best and worst year that was in the last year that was after the year before that. This is my story. Ownership Anxiety ¶ In J...

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Food is a complicated topic, especially trying to balance nutrition with lower climate impacts and animal welfare, but I’ve taken a stab at explaining a bunch of it here with no nonsense or judgement. philsturgeon.com/unf-king-the...

Unf**king the Climate - Part 2: Food

Talking about food gets loud and ideological, but we're going to have a judgement free chat about livestock, flexitarianism, veganism, and my favourite: the invasivore diet. Let's fix the planet a lit...

philsturgeon.com

Go look up TIME’s 1938 Person of the Year

TIME@time.com · 2y ago

Donald Trump is TIME's Person of the Year time.com/7200212/pers...

I don't like the whole "can't edit posts" feature on this platform. Editing posts is basically my thing.

How is Zwift so popular given the subscription cost? I'd happily pay a one-off cost on Steam for a single player version, and I'm surprised there isn't an open-source cycling simulator. Even a 2d one would be pretty neat. I'd try and make one if I had the time.

Want to learn about how to bring the power of generics to PHP? For the next 24 days I'll be releasing a video a day to cover all you need to know about generics in PHP and the tools required. Day 1 - Introduction: vimeo.com/1035029403

PHP Generics Advent Day 1 - Introduction

This is "PHP Generics Advent Day 1 - Introduction" by Dave Liddament on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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The curse of being able to code is that every time I run into a small issue with a piece of software I want to write my own version from scratch

Hey PHP devs, fun fact: the #️⃣ emoji starts a line comment!