Trying to standardise legacy projects and seeing how to move modules for better management and discovered yet another awesome #PHP analysis tool - deptrac. You can define your layers and how they should be connected, and it'll show you any violations. Great way to locate code that breaks modular boundaries!

https://deptrac.github.io/deptrac/

Periodic reminder Stop using boolean as options flags in #PHP use Enum (Backed or Not that's not the point) instead. Boolean flags are hard to read and to remember and they often lead to tricky bugs or at best a required trip to the API documentation if it exists (defaulting to scanning the codebase for the method definition), Enum are explicit and readable and offer granularity instead of a simple yes/no answer

Benchmarking Array Merges in PHP: When to Optimise and Why It Matters. #PHP
https://dev.to/jszutkowski/benchmarking-array-merges-in-php-when-to-optimise-and-why-it-matters-2lf7

What are folks using for job/message queues in #PHP, these days?

Edit: I’m looking for PHP applications or libraries that provide a drop-in job queuing system that your existing code can use to register and manage jobs.

Is the Vim (9.1) tag search slow for you too? This only happens with huge projects that have many PHP vendor dependencies, which can occur quickly with PHP. How do you handle it? Does Vim understand multiple tag files? Can it be multi-threaded somehow?

Composer is great — but it is not a magic remedy to solve autoloading performance problems.

In fact, autoloading can slow down large PHP apps like Magento or Laravel by 100 ms + per request.

We share 5 common mistakes and how to fix them (with real profiling data), in our latest blog post.

https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/autoloading-performance-avoid-these-5-mistakes?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=autoloading-performance-avoid-these-5-mistakes

Generation of four sequences decomposed into weight × level + jump (log(weight), log(level), log(jump)) - three.js animation:

1: The natural numbers (A000027) https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Natural_numbers.html

PHP além do composer: Gerenciamento de Extensões PHP: Do PECL ao Moderno PIE. #PHP
https://dev.to/walissonaguirra/php-alem-do-composer-gerenciamento-de-extensoes-php-do-pecl-ao-moderno-pie-1ebm

What defines great Shopware performance?

In this episode of @shopcastfm, @beberlei shares key takeaways from benchmarking 700+ stores:

- Core Web Vitals explained

- Real-world tips for faster UX

- Plugin pitfalls and hosting choices

Listen: https://shopcast.fm/casts/057-shopware-6-performance/
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46k1NpnAjfE

Generics in PHP: Hands-On with Compile-Time Generics. #PHP
https://doganoo.medium.com/generics-in-php-hands-on-with-compile-time-generics-6237c76d94d4

I have just released new versions of PHPUnit 8.5, PHPUnit 9.6, PHPUnit 10.5, PHPUnit 11.5, and PHPUnit 12.3.

These new versions (as well as new versions of some of their dependencies) no longer use functionality that was deprecated for PHP 8.5 within the last 24 hours or so. This should make testing your code with PHP 8.5 easier.

How is your Sunday going?

Creating our own package in PHP. #PHP
https://dev.to/deniskorbakov/creating-our-own-package-in-php-5hdd

Lazy Evaluation in PHP: Real‑World Memory Savings with Generators. #PHP
https://dev.to/oleksandr_vasyliev/lazy-evaluation-in-php-how-generators-and-iterators-save-memory-and-speed-up-code-3529

Long live <?php

Down migrations are oddly controversial in the Laravel community. Instead of trying to change anyone's mind, here's a rule of thumb we follow for when it makes sense to roll back a migration in production. #php #laravel https://masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-08-08-video-when-is-it-safe-to-roll-back-a-migration