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24 postsPHP 8.6 Preview: Partial Application, Polling API, and Clamp()
PHP 8.6 preview: partial function application, a new Polling API, built-in clamp(), reflection updates, and stricter session security defaults.
Compiling PHP DTOs: The Path to 4.5M Hydrations per Second
A PHP 8.4 package compiles DTO hydration into per-class closures with opcache-backed caching and lazy ghosts, delivering up to 35x faster hydration.
Lerd: An Open-Source, Rootless Herd Alternative for Linux and macOS
Lerd is an open-source, rootless Podman-based PHP dev environment for Linux and macOS, offering Herd-like .test domains, TLS and AI-agent integration.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comPHP 8's JIT Compiler: How It Removes the Interpreter Tax
PHP 8's JIT compiles opcodes into native machine code, removing interpreter overhead. This piece covers OPcache, Tracing vs Function JIT, and CRTO tuning.
Web Developer = Embedded Developer: Real PHP Now Runs on ESP32
php-baremetal 1.0.0 runs the real, unmodified PHP interpreter natively on ESP32 microcontrollers using minimal portability patches.
WooCommerce Checkout Monitoring: Catching Silent Failures Early
How to detect silent WooCommerce checkout failures — broken payment gateways, order pipeline stalls — before clients notice, using order stats and smoke tests.
PHP's Polling API: The Missing Piece for Fiber-Based Async
PHP's Polling API RFC has merged to master. See how it pairs with Fibers to finally give async PHP a native event-readiness primitive.
Manticore Speaks MySQL, So Here's a Laravel Database Driver for It
A Laravel database driver turns Manticore Search's MySQL wire protocol into full Eloquent support, including migrations and native KNN vector search.
How to Build a Modern WordPress Theme Using Vite
Learn how to integrate Vite into WordPress themes for Sass, JS modules, hashed production assets, and manifest-based asset loading with graceful fallbacks.
JIT Support in PHP 8.0: Performance Boost and Innovations
PHP 8.0 introduces JIT support, enhancing performance and enabling innovations. JIT makes PHP more effective in CPU-intensive applications.