Matthew Setter
@settermjd.bsky.social
I'm an accessible web application developer, educator, author, and podcaster, based in Bundaberg, Australia.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: If you want to be a developer, you have to read. Have a listen:
If you want to be a developer, you have to read
This is something that I've thought about a lot during the (roughly) 30...
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 3). Have a listen:
If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 3)
In this episode, I'm finishing up the 3-part series showing by stepping...
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 2). Have a listen:
If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 2)
If you've been wondering how to get started as a web developer, but were...
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 1). Have a listen:
If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 1)
If you've been wondering how to get started as a web developer, but were...
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Unable to get the weekly podcast episode out, today, as planned. 😭 Next week, however, a new series titled: "If I was Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It?" starts. I'm looking forward to exploring this question over a series of episodes in the podcast and see where it goes.
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: Make your Command-Line Experience More Enjoyable and Efficient with Shell Aliases. Have a listen:
Make your Command-Line Experience More Enjoyable and Efficient with Shell Aliases
If you've used the shell, terminal, or command-line all that much,...
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I've just released version 0.2.3 of rustlio! Among other things, it adds the ability to model a phone number’s SMS pumping risk score properties. Check out the changelog for full details: github.com/settermjd/ru....
Release 0.2.3 · settermjd/rustlio
What's Changed Clean up and simplify validate_body by @settermjd in #6 Refactor lookup_phone_data as asynchronous by @settermjd in #7 Add SMS Pumping Risk Score functionality by @settermjd in #8 ...
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I've not benchmarked the code, but it was a fun way of performing a case-insensitive way of searching for an array key in PHP, and returning the key's value, if the key was found. Thoughts?
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: Don't use Markdown for technical documentation. Have a listen:
Don't use Markdown for technical documentation
If you've written technical documentation, you'll know about Markdown....
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Resterm just keeps getting better! I upgraded from v0.41, earlier today. It's easier to navigate because you can hide/collapse UI elements. It explains the request for you, breaking down what happened. And, it just shows you more of what's going on. Some excellent improvements!
So, it turns out that you can search your shell history even more effectively with basic regexes. 😀 Not sure why I never thought of doing this before, but it makes searching LOADS better.
So, it seems that it is possible to paint oneself in a corner and write an unreachable method. How would you call A::foo() in this code below? Come on, #PHP, there must be something here. #phptip #phptrick php-tips.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ti...
I'm planning to install Ubuntu on an old Chromebook. Is there anything I need to be aware of or keep in mind? Any little gotchas?
Just scheduled the next episode of the podcast to go live at 1pm AEST, this Wednesday. A big rant about Markdown is incoming! podcast.webdevwithmatt.com
Web Dev with Matt
Want to learn web development from the comfort of your chair, car, when you're out for a run, or doing some random house work? This is the show for you. Every week, in 20 - 40 minutes, I help you impr...
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I'm just going to say it. I loathe Markdown's table syntax.
You might think that GUIs are more efficient for using Git than the command line. I disagree. Today, I'm going to show you six options that I regularly use with Git Log that make the command-line way faster. Here's the link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
You might think that GUIs are more efficient for using Git than the command line. I disagree. Today, I'm going to show you six options that I regularly use with Git Log that make the command-line ...
You might think that GUIs are more efficient for using Git than the command line. I disagree. Today, I'm going to show you six options that I regularly use with Git Log that make the command-line way ...
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Web Dev with Matt: 6 Git Log Options I Use That Make the Command-line Better Than a Git GUI. Have a listen:
6 Git Log Options I Use That Make the Command-line Better Than a Git GUI
You might think that Git GUIs are more efficient for using Git than the...
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I use league/commonmark as the basis for rendering post content on my blog. After reading through the extensions documentation, i think it's time to take it further, and write some of my own. commonmark.thephpleague.com/2.x/extensio...
Extensions Overview - CommonMark for PHP
An overview of the extensions included with this library
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After working with Rust for some time, the difference between using &str and String finally clicked: - Use &str when you’re reading a string. - Use String when you're manipulating a string.
Rust is full of wonderful data structures. Two of the most interesting are HashMap and BTreeMap. If you're wondering what the differences between them are, and when to use one over the other, check out this short post: www.slingacademy.com/article/choo...
Rust - Choosing HashMap vs BTreeMap: Trade-offs in performance and ordering - Sling Academy
When working with collections in Rust, one of the common decisions you'll face is choosing the right data structure. Two of the most frequently used maps in Rust are HashMap and BTreeMap. Both have th...
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Just published a new episode of the Web Dev with Matt podcast titled: Getting Started With Git Reflog. Have a listen: podcast.webdevwithmatt.com/s2/30
Web Dev with Matt | Getting Started With Git Reflog
Git Reflog shows you a lot about what's going on in your Git repositories, and let's you clean them up better than other commands can. For this reason, and because I have been known to accidentally...
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Want a wonderfully succinct discussion on Rust's derive attribute? Here it is: iamtechhunter.substack.com/p/understand...
Understanding #[derive(...)] in Rust
If you’re new to Rust, you may have seen #[derive(...)] sitting above structs or enums and thought:
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Downloads of #GIMP 3.2.4: Released 19th April > 2.67 million downloads for Windows ~ 350k macOS downloads > 350k "active devices" for Snap > 220k of last Flatpak (6 days old!) > 50k AppImages Total: ~ 3.65 millions of *known* downloads of version 3.2.4. > 80k downloads/day. 🫠
Does anyone know of a good regular expression performance tester?
🔒 An update on Composer & Packagist supply chain security: where we stand, what ships this week with Composer 2.10, what's next. If you maintain PHP packages, enable MFA now. blog.packagist.com/an-update-on... #php #phpc #composerphp #supplychainsecurity
An Update on Composer & Packagist Supply Chain Security
The last months, and even more so the last weeks, saw an increasing amount of software supply chain attacks targeting open-source ecosystems. A handful of these have hit the PHP ecosystem too, via tak...
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Today we published our Impact and Transparency Report for 2025. We are incredibly grateful for our sponsors, partners, contractors, & individual financial contributors for without them, none of our work would be possible. thephp.foundation/blog/2026/05... #php #opensource
The PHP Foundation Impact and Transparency Report 2025
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
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I get that of all tech writing file formats, Markdown is the most popular. But, that doesn't make it the best choice. There are so many ways in which it could just be, well, better. For example, the ability to restart lists from a given index. Just saying.
It took us a bit longer than expected but after over a month of discussions and rewrites, Composer 2.10 RC2 is now available for testing with a new policy config and detected malware now blocked by default on install. github.com/composer/com... #composerphp #phpc
Release 2.10.0-RC2 · composer/composer
Composer 2.10 is ready for a release, and we need your help to test it and report any regression. Please try it out! Running composer self-update --preview will get you the 2.10.0-RC2 Running comp...
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