I'm speaking at Longhorn PHP in Austin this October! "How Tetris Made Me a Better Programmer" — the falling-blocks game has a real 60-page spec, I built it in PHP, and it taught me plenty about state machines and specs. Blind Bird pricing through Aug 8: https://longhornphp.com/schedule #PHP

This week in PHP internals: the 35-ballot deprecation vote enters its final week with list() deadlocked 21-21, a second author pulled his own vote over process rules, and PHP 8.6 officially gets a Duration class. Full rundown: https://youtu.be/8YUc-A2h-f4 #PHP #PHPInternals

This Week in PHP Internals — August 5, 2026

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This week in PHP internals: 42 RFC ballots open at once. list() is losing its deprecation vote, a pipe operator split the room 8-8, and one vote lasted 18 minutes. Full rundown: https://youtu.be/Af_8W6wxx6k #PHP #PHPInternals

This Week In PHP Internals | July 29, 2026

42 RFC ballots open at once - the week on the php.internals mailing list.

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🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 22, 2026 The season's first RFC ballots are open and lopsided: Duration cruising 23–1, minimum versions right behind. gd 2.4 arrived 4 days late. Monday, PHP starts voting on deprecating list(). Full video 👇 youtu.be/tCUKb5rPuJ4 #PHP #PHPInternals

This Week In PHP Internals | July 22, 2026

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Ever wondered if the code you’re shipping when you’re “moving fast” is sticking?

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🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 15, 2026 A brand-new `extension` keyword rewrote itself mid-thread, deprecations froze with ballots set, autoloading split in two, Duration drew its first No, and a JSX-style RFC landed hours before recording. Full video 👇 youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg #PHP #PHPInternals

This Week In PHP Internals | July 15, 2026

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🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 8, 2026 A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1. Full video 👇 youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE #PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86

This Week In PHP Internals | July 8, 2026

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Being a polymath can be interesting, but it can also backfire. Like when your kid asks you (at bedtime) how books are made, and you decide that’s a perfect time for a 90 minute lesson on bookbinding

🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 1, 2026 Generics AND __exists both voted down. A deprecations RFC became a fight about evidence. A new Primary Constructors RFC. And a heartfelt plea for async. Full video 👇 youtu.be/dX_Hd_92x7M #PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86

This Week in PHP Internals | July 1, 2026

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This Week In PHP Internals | June 24, 2026 A deprecations RFC that became an argument about evidence and respect, a stopwatch class that swallowed the mailing list, two revivals laid to rest, and the headline votes still stalled while the small ones glide through. youtu.be/kkB80mqB-B8

This Week In PHP Internals | June 24, 2026

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A generics vote going down, 3 RFCs rejected, 4 passed, and a modules debate that keeps multiplying. This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026 youtu.be/6m3lCrJ7XsU

This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026

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I’m still experimenting with fable so I don’t have a concrete anecdote to contribute quite yet, but this is an interesting one

Ed Grosvenor@gros.co · 2mo ago

I know now where Fable fits in my toolbelt. I'm working on a gnarly legacy app for a client. They've been vibe coding hard into this thing, and the test suite is going over 30 minutes in CI. I did some optimizing, sharding... all the standard stuff. But I hit a wall.

We had some interesting developments in the pursuit of Generics in PHP this week on the internals mailing list. This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026 youtu.be/GVaPLIIQ1Eg

This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026

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We wrapped a client contract this previous week, and that lead to us discussing just how much stuff we've shipped this past year. The speed at which we're able to ship in this ecosystem of our is staggering. If you've got hard problems to solve, we'd love to collaborate. youtu.be/2Z0QUchSSGg

Impromptu 2025-2026 Retrospective

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Looks like I'm headed to Boston in a few months

I posted my RFC to r/php and there is some absolutely spirited discussion around it. www.reddit.com/r/PHP/commen...

From the PHP community on Reddit: [RFC] Trailing Boolean Operators

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I've been building a layered rendering engine and component library for building TUI applications named Parfait. Here's a sneak peek!

I built an agentic programmer using Laravel Prompts as a demo for a talk on async php. The secret sauce behind ClaudeCode, OpenCode, GeminiCli, Codex, etc is just the interface. The actual agent is shockingly simple, and you can do it using standard http requests in a loop.

I said months ago that I wanted to start pairing regularly with new people, but client work got in the way. Summer is shaping up to be a relatively peaceful time for me, so now is a great time to get this started. Use this link to grab an hour! calendar.app.google/RthNTaLYCA9Q...

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Hey everyone, @gros.co and I had planned on doing the draw for our extra @laracon.us community bundle ticket today, but I had to go to the hospital to get my gallbladder removed instead. You've got one more day to go to laravel.recipes and register

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Today's "Slack Chat Quote of the Day" goes out to @coulb.com: "You know a Boolean is just an enum with two cases"

Today I acquired 4.5 million shares in Artisan Build, Inc. AMA

The LaraconEU stream starts at midnight Vancouver time... Guess I'm not sleeping tonight 🤷

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Today is my 38th birthday, and all I want is a job at Laravel 🫣 Oh right, and health and joy and all that stuff too