BlogFlockTwenty years is a lifetime in software engineering. Languages rise and fall. Frameworks become obsolete. Entire categories of developer tools appear, dominate the industry, and quietly disappear again. Yet through two decades of change at JetBrains, one engineer has remained focused…
Welcome to the PhpStorm 2026.2 release overview. This version advances PhpStorm as a platform for your preferred coding agents, models, and AI subscriptions, improves PHP and Laravel support, and delivers productivity gains for working with Git repositories, databases, and the built-in terminal.
PhpStorm 2026.2…
On June 9, PHPverse 2026 brought together PHP developers from different backgrounds to watch talks by domain experts, exchange opinions, and even try to catch a running elePHPant. The five-hour live stream has been viewed 15,000 times in total and received 10,206 live chat comments, with over 2,600 people…
I use Nextcloud, and have used the Nextcloud News app as my feed reader for a number of years.
Since moving all my hosting to a home lab, I noticed that Nextcloud News was unable to retrieve feeds from my own website, which was weird. Looking at the logs,…
Evidently, the AI models trained on my internet activity, and I have thoughts.
I recently saw some folks posting images like the above, linking to intheweights.com; the site allows you to put in a name, and then it analyzes the various models to see how much they have used…
I nearly always open Sublime Text from the command line using subl and have specific requirements for when it should open a new window or re-use one.
If I'm opening a directory, then I would like it to re-use the same window if I have previously opened that directory. However…
Every developer has tools they rely on daily. The workflows they’ve built around them, the ways they’ve learned to move faster, debug smarter, and write better code – that kind of hands-on experience can be hard to put into words.
We’re collaborating with LinkedIn to make it easier for you…
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!
With the help of the community, we’ve designed a comprehensive survey that aims…
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…
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