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PHP

2025

PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument in Diffs

Think of an Elephpant

PHP Scratch Files in VSCode

Twig Push/Stack Extension

PHP Open Source

cpx exec - Scratch File Runner

PHP Laravel VSCode

Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle - PHP UK 2025

Scratching an Itch: Scratch File Superpowers - PHP SW 2024

PHP VSCode Talk

PHP Associative Arrays Are Predictably Ordered

Prepending a String Key to an Associative Array in PHP

2024

Detecting Autoloaders in Composer Bin Commands

Introducing cpx - Composer Package Executor

TemPHPest for VSCode Showcase

Introducing TemPHPest for VSCode

Quickly Comment Out a PHP File

The First Useful Test is Empty

A URL is valid PHP code?!

2022

Slicing into Blade - Laracon EU Online 2021

PHP Laravel Talk

2021

PHP as a Templating Language

2020

Unconventional Autoloaders (Talk)

Announcing the Livewire.run Newsletter

PHP Laravel Livewire Newsletter

Protecting Against Infinite Gmail Addresses Using Regex

PHP Regex Gmail

Avoiding the Pain of Localisation (Talk)

PHP Talk Localisation

Unconventional PHP (Talk)

Inline Parameters Extension for VSCode

PHP VSCode JavaScript TypeScript Lua

Laravel TALL Stack Preset

PHP Laravel TailwindCSS AlpineJS Livewire

Static Constructors in PHP

Laravel Testing - CSS Selector Assertion Macros

PHP Laravel Testing

2019

Private Constructors

My PHP Wishlist

A Look At PHP's isset()

PHP Wishlist: Typing

PHP Wishlist: Operator Overloading

2018

Catching an exit(); in PHP

Bitmask Constant Arguments in PHP

PHP Shareable Social Media Links

Laravel Set .env File Variable

Throttle Simultaneous API Requests with Laravel

PHP Function Chaining with Pipes

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