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Improve readability and reduce bugs by using array functions over loops

Aug 12, 2024

I was a butcher for roughly four years before I became a software engineer. (And nowadays, I’m a vegetarian.) And while one of the jobs doesn’t require you to work inside a refrigerator half the time, there are actually quite some similarities in how we keep our work environment clean.

Aug 7, 2024

We have a lot of 'rules' in software engineering, and we often want to break them. But be wary of breaking rules you don't fully understand yet.

Jul 31, 2024

This week I learned of a small change that got introduced in PHP 8.2 that I completely missed. The iterator_*() functions got an update, which make them actually usable when dealing with the iterable type. Now this is only really relevant if you are dealing with iterables that might not be arrays, but you need to use them as an array.

Jul 30, 2024

Something I’ve been hearing myself says in every project that I have installed Psl in, is “Just use Psl for that”. And while some bits and bobs like array_find are getting into PHP 8.4, the library does so much more. In this post I’ll go over the bits that I use often, and maybe convince you to give it a try as well.

Jul 23, 2024

We have been able to natively type parameters of methods and functions in PHP for quite some time. In basically any version of PHP you should be running we can do something like the following:

Jul 17, 2024

Youre on holiday, and suddenly you cant push or pull your github or gitlab repos, find out why that could be, and how to fix it.

Jul 9, 2024

declare(strict_types=1) makes your code more strict, but what does it actually do?

Jul 4, 2024

Learn how to integrate PHPStan, a powerful static analysis tool, into your PHP projects to enhance code quality and reduce errors, in a legacy project.

Jun 27, 2024

A book about deep work, on how to gain focus, and increase your productivity

Jun 26, 2024