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Together with The PHP Foundation, we’re embarking on an exciting expedition – the first annual State of PHP census that aims to tally the elePHPant population across the world. Come join us!
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For OSS work, I work with two git remotes:
I set up locally like this:
Making software accessible often comes down to removing small but repeated points of friction in everyday workflows. Today, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing recent improvements in JetBrains IDEs across several areas: compatibility with assistive technologies on various platforms, keyboard navigation, and non-visual feedback. Some of these improvements…
The Early Access Program (EAP) for the next major PhpStorm 2026.2 release is now open!
PhpStorm’s EAP builds are a great opportunity to try upcoming features for free in your real workflows and share feedback with the PhpStorm team. Your input directly influences what makes it into the final release.
I've been using the construct sudo run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/ to determine if recent system updates required a reboot.
Today I learned I can simply check for the existence of the file /var/run/reboot-required.
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Matthew…JetBrains PHPverse – a community-inspired professional event for PHP developers – returns once more on June 9, 2026. This year, we’re gathering some of the most influential voices in the PHP ecosystem to share their insights on shaping the modern PHP language, the internals of ecosystem tools and frameworks, and…
I was recently building something that was taking date input from an HTML form field, and casting it to a PHP DateTimeImmutable. I was then comparing that to another date, and got thrown off during testing when I compared the resulting instance to new DateTimeImmutable('today'); the instances were…
I'm doing a little DB work recently, and needing to choose how to represent certain data in the database. For a few fields, ENUM would be the correct choice, but there's a possibility I would need to expand the ENUM later to add values.
My question: is this safe?
The…
I've been using the experimental "display: masonry" CSS for my gallery and a few other areas of my website for over a year (with a fallback to standard grid columns). However, I noticed in the last few months that my browser was no longer honoring it, and finally…
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