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Two of the biggest features in the upcoming PHP 8.4 are property hooks and asymmetric visibility (or "aviz" for short). Ilija Tovilo and I worked on them over the course of two ye…

I've just released version 2.0 of [Crell/Tukio](https://github.com/Crell/Tukio)! Available now from your favorite Packagist.org. Tukio is a feature-complete, easy to use, robust …

Erin Kissane recently posted an [excellent writeup](https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads) about the coming integration of Threads into the Mastdon/ActivityPub/Fediverse world…

Static methods and properties have a storied and controversial history in PHP. Some love them, some hate them, some love having something to fight about (naturally). In practice,…

I am pleased to announce that the trio of libraries I built while at [TYPO3](https://typo3.com/) have now reached a fully stable release. In particular, [Crell/Serde](http://githu…

I have a home server I built several years ago. It used to be a mail server, but now it's mainly just a home file server. Still, it runs a three-drive RAID 5 array for safety. R…

The term "technical debt" gets thrown around a lot. Way too much, in fact. Part of that is because it has become a euphemism for "code I don't like" or "code that predates me." …

In the last 2 years or so, I've run into a number of projects that claim to use the [PSR-3](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-3/) logging standard as published by the [PHP Framework …

Like much of the world I've been working to migrate off of Twitter to Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. Along with a new network is the need for new automation tools, and I'…

At the `$dayjob`, I am working to have us adopt [Lando](https://docs.lando.dev/) as a development tool. Lando is a docker-compose abstraction layer that simplifies building standa…

At the `$dayjob`, I am working to have us adopt [Lando](https://docs.lando.dev/) as a development tool. Lando is a docker-compose abstraction layer that simplifies building standa…

PHP 8.2 was [released](https://www.php.net/releases/8.2/en.php) on 8 December, to much fanfare. And, as always, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the PHP language is…

Sorting algorithms are generally old hat to most programmers. They've either analyzed them to death in class, already written many of them, or work in a language where one is prov…

A while back, I [announced](https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/php-attribute-utils) the release of my [AttributeUtils](https://github.com/Crell/AttributeUtils) library and its po…

Enumerations are a feature of many programming languages. However, we should perhaps say "many languages have a feature called enumerations." What that means in practice has a lo…

# Benchmarking serialization I was discussing recently with a TYPO3 colleague about performance, specifically caching. Both he and I are working on systems that may involve hundr…

`null` has a controversial history. It's been called "the billion-dollar mistake" by its creator. Most languages implement `null`, but those few that do not (such as Rust) are ge…

## Announcing AttributeUtils After sitting on it for a while, I am pleased to release a PHP library for robust, powerful attribute handling in PHP 8.1: [Crell/AttributeUtils](http…

[Last time](https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/php-tricks-uncommon-match-expressions), I talked about fun uses of the `match()` expression in PHP, using unconventional types of e…

Recently, I've been helping a new developer out in a chat room. He's still learning PHP and working through tutorials, with lots of questions along the way. Earlier this week, by…