While reviewing pull requests it often happened to me that I missed a new public (or even protected) method being added. A public constant slips in. A new property with a suboptimal name or type. This is in general not a huge deal in closed source......
I have spent the last year moving a few big old codebases, including Composer, to PHPStan's level 8. Here are a few lessons I think I have learned in the process. I was for a while skeptical about using the baseline feature as it seemed to me like......
(What feels like) a lifetime of maintaining open source projects has left me with some things to say about the haters. I'm not sure why. Trying to do a light take of it instead of getting mad, here is a post categorizing them. Your average online......
My blog was always based on some home-grown CMS I built during my studies in.. checks CV 2007-2008. This was mostly fine but it had no markdown support and it was one more server to manage. I would like to try and write some more content here again so......
I have been developing web apps on Windows for the last 10+ years. I ran PHP, Apache then Nginx, MySQL and Postgres, Redis and others. I dabbed in VMs at some point but was always dissatisfied with the experience so mostly this was all running natively......
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015, 2016.1, 2016.2, 2017.1 and 2017.2 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs......
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015, 2016.1, 2016.2 and 2017.1 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs of the......
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015, 2016.1 and 2016.2 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs of the last month......
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015 and 2016.1 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs of the last 28 days for......
Earlier this month an article was published summarizing Nikolai Philipp Tschacher's thesis about typosquatting. In short typosquatting is a way to attack users of a package manager by registering a package with a name similar to a popular package, hoping......