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I mentioned this on X as well: I'm looking forward learning more of your experience with VSC in the coming months. Personally I don't think you can easily compare it to PhpStorm, but let me know how it goes :)

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More dependency considerations | stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

Some followup thoughts on last week's blogpost: stitcher.io/blog/more-de...

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Stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

I was reading this blog post about how package managers are evil. I don't really agree on the "evil" part because package managers do solve a problem that would be very hard to deal with manually. That being said, I was curious enough to do a little experiment.

stitcher.io/blog/depende...

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PhpStorm 2026.1 Released - Laravel News PhpStorm 2026.1 ships with Laravel 13 support, an expanded MCP server for third-party agents, PHP 8.5 pipe operator quick-fixes, and git worktree support.

PhpStorm 2026.1 Released posted by @ericlbarnes.com laravel-news.com/phpstorm-202...

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Oh that’s so nice to read!

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I'm currently reading this. Just about to start ch5. Loving it so far!

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The plan | Timeline Taxi (Free Audiobook Ch.2)
The plan | Timeline Taxi (Free Audiobook Ch.2) YouTube video by Brent

I'm releasing an audiobook version of my sci-fi novel on YouTube. The second chapter is now live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hb...

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You can now listen to the Timeline Taxi audio book on YouTube for free! stitcher.io/feed/posts/7...

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I'm releasing the audiobook version of Timeline Taxi for free on my personal youtube channel, subscribe if you want to follow along: www.youtube.com/@brendt_gd

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New ORM relations β€” Tempest Tempest's ORM now supports HasOneThrough, HasManyThrough, and BelongsToMany relations

Tempest now has HasOneThrough, HasManyThrough, and BelongsToMany relations: tempestphp.com/blog/new-orm...

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Idempotent routes and commands in Tempest: tempestphp.com/blog/idempot...

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PHP Foundation Director interview YouTube video by PHP Annotated

What does the future of PHP look like? I'll be talking about this question in 10 minutes, LIVE on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/x_KmbLt...

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Your questions for the new director!
Your questions for the new director! YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Be there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCGX...

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TWO SECONDS to parse 100,000,000 rows in PHP
TWO SECONDS to parse 100,000,000 rows in PHP YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Join me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Ue...

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The 100M-row challenge has ended! Eventually people pushed PHP close to 2 seconds to parse the full dataset. Amazing!

More insights here: tempestphp.com/challenges/p...

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I grabbed their attention with elephpants, not yet explaining what they have to do with my job.

I then told them "I'm a youtuber" to further blow their minds.

Then I asked whether they knew that their online school platform was built by people, to explain what "a programming language" is

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Adding discovery in Laravel FOR THE WIN
Adding discovery in Laravel FOR THE WIN YouTube video by PHP Annotated

We had a very fun stream yesterday to discover (HAH) what Tempest's discovery is truly about. Watch the 20m recap here: youtu.be/jki2VF6NJIo

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Adding Tempest's Discovery to Laravel
Adding Tempest's Discovery to Laravel YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Join me live as we combine the best of two awesome frameworks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGR...

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Adding Tempest's Discovery to Laravel YouTube video by PHP Annotated

In a little over an hour, I'll be live, adding Tempest's discovery to Laravel! www.youtube.com/live/AeGRMZN...

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Bringing Elephpants was a success.

Maybe one day, one of these kids will become a PHP programmer. Who knows!

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Today I'm speaking at a pretty amazing conference: my 6-year old son's class who are learning about professions. 😁

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Speeding up xdebug 300% WITH AI
Speeding up xdebug 300% WITH AI YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Come join us! We're live now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cv...

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Speeding up xdebug 300% WITH AI
Speeding up xdebug 300% WITH AI YouTube video by PHP Annotated

When this post is 1.5 hours old, Roman and I will be live talking about how he sped up xdebug by 300%.

You don't wanna miss this!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cv...

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Truly decoupled discovery β€” Tempest Tempest's discovery can now be used in any project

Just published Tempest 3.4, which only has one feature β€” but a massive one: truly decoupled discovery!

tempestphp.com/blog/truly-d...

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The 100M row challenge in PHP is almost coming to an end, and even until the last days, results are improving like CRAZY

xheaven.github.io/tempest-100m/

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Speeding up xdebug 300% WITH AI YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Tomorrow, ex-Foundation director @pronskiy.bsky.social and I will talk about how he vibe-coded a debugger for PHP that's 300% faster than xdebug. Be there.

youtube.com/live/G3cvygq...

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Stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

More than that, it's so amazing to see it integrated into the Tempest PHP framework (tempestphp.com β€” thanks @stitcher.io!) and powering one of my favorite sites, stitcher.io

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I suggest to take a close look at the readme ;)

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GitHub - tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge Contribute to tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'd say this weekend is the perfect time to participate in the 100M-row challenge with #PHP!

github.com/tempestphp/1...

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PHP 1BRC Leaderboard Explorer

Marcos made a proper leaderboard! marcosmarcolin.github.io/leaderboard-...

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