The State of PHP 2025 examines how developers use, prefer, and rely on PHP, showing how this long-standing web language continues to modernize through new frameworks, improved tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.

In this report, we present findings from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025. Alongside the numbers, you’ll also hear…

Sometimes it's helpful to add some text to my current Obsidian daily note without having to switch to Obsidian, find the daily note and then type my text.

To do this, we can use the magic of Obsidian's obsidian:// URI schema and automate the text capture in Apple Shortcuts, with…

I've set my Mac up such that video calls such as Zoom use the microphone and earphones attached to my Behringer UMC204HD, which all other audio plays through the my normal speakers which are the default.

One issue I have with this is that it's quite hard to change…

At JetBrains, we want the PHP community to shine. First and foremost, we do this by building PhpStorm, the best IDE for PHP development; but we also support and help drive the PHP Foundation; have just organised PHPverse, accessible for everyone worldwide; and recently we made the …

I use OpenIn to open links in a given browser when I click on them in other applications. This is really helpful to keep various work related stuff in different browsers or profiles and I find it very helpful.

One thing that's bothered me is that links from the Jira…

Zoom used to have a strange behavior, one I'm sure they thought would be useful, but in reality was infuriating: if you moved between virtual workspaces, Zoom would minimize to a thumbnail window that followed you around to workspaces.

At some point, it went away, thankfully... but after a recent…

After pulling a new version of the Docker PostgreSQL container, I started getting this warning:

WARNING: database "dev" has a collation version mismatch DETAIL: The database was created using collation version 2.36, but the operating system provides version 2.41. HINT: Rebuild all objects in this database that use the default…

I use bash's history all the time, via ctrl+r and also with the up and down keys; it's wonderful.

Sometimes, I want to get back to the end of my history and I recently discovered that there's a shortcut for this: meta+>. It doesn't matter where you are…

Understanding Relationships Between Classes, Interfaces, Traits, and Enums in PHP

Modern PHP offers four major code structures — classes, interfaces, traits, and enums — each with its own purpose and rules. But the real power of PHP comes from how these structures can interact with each…

Following on from my earlier exploration of JWKS (RFC7517), I found myself needing to convert the JWKS into PEM format.

This time I turned to Python with my preference of using uv with inline script metadata and created jwks-to-pem.py.

The really nice thing about inline script metadata…