Daniel #PHPCONNECT'25

PHPCONNECT'25 was a success!!! I am super glad we pulled this off against all odds this year 🎉🚀 Really insightful talks and massive impact!! Big shoutout to @nativephp for sponsoring a 1000 licenses, and I can't wait to see what the PHP community builds with it!!🚀🎉

What a GREAT idea! Laravel partner syndication?!?! 🤯

Congratulations, Adiaha Essiett👩🏻‍🎓💐❤️ Best Graduating Student in Final Project and dissertation Prize in Healthcare Management with Distinction at York St John University

Code concept : isset() vs empty() isset() checks if a variable exists and is not null. empty() checks if a variable is empty (0, '', null, false, []). Use isset() when checking existence. Use empty() when checking value state. #php #phptalks #codeconcept

Push business logic into Action classes, Services, or Domain objects. Keep your controllers as thin HTTP adapters — validate input, delegate, return a response. Nothing more. Scalable systems aren't about frameworks. They're about knowing exactly where every line of code belongs.

shadcn/create works out of the box with @Laravel Run laravel new, build your preset then apply it using the cli.

Our "How to Build a Dev Team" Laracasts series is now fully complete. This was a massive undertaking with @mattstauffer, but I'm so happy that we could offer knowledge like this entirely for free. Learn directly from the CEO of @TightenCo. laracasts.com/series/how-to-…

⚠️ If you think PHP doesn't have a place in the AI age or that it should stick to the web, think again What made it great for taking over the web is going to be what makes it EXCEPTIONAL for taking over phones Not long to wait now 😉

What if you could build a fully native iOS app… using only PHP? Checkout this first demo of the new Super Native architecture behind NativePHP on iOS — where PHP runs directly alongside native code with no WebView, no JavaScript bridge, and no hybrid layer.

A concrete example of PHP's native FFI in action 🔥 x.com/codewithkyrian…

Lessons learned from going full native mobile: PERSISTENT PHP! Literally 10x performance. NativePHP v3.1 public beta out now!

PHP is better equipped to work with C than JS!

Who wants $100 for 5 minutes of work ? Just to showcase what they’ve built in the past? check comment.

Finally shipped something I’ve been building for a while now 🚀 Introducing NDArray PHP - high performance n-dimensional arrays for PHP, powered by Rust via FFI. It features zero copy views, has a memory-safe Rust core, single FFI call per operation and has a Numpy-like API that just works. And of course, it’s blazing fast!! This is a pretty low level library, and is the first among other utilities I aim to publish to improve ML tooling for PHP. The plan is to build an entire ecosystem -Improve TransformersPHP, new ONNX runtime, audio processing extensions, image analysis utils and more higher level ML abstractions for PHP with this foundation. So, If you’re working with numerical data in PHP, or you’re just curious about Rust/PHP FFI, check it out. Repo and documentation links in the comments ⬇️

Amazing pics by Niels Luigjes at @LaraconEU 26! 🔥🔥🔥 Also had the opportunity to talk with him a little during the event, and he's such an amazing guy!

My heart is overflowing! First India, now Amsterdam!? Just leaving Amsterdam after speaking at my first Laracon EU, and I’m honestly overwhelmed with gratitude. Seeing old friends, meeting so many incredible new ones, and being reminded how special this community is… it’s hard to put into words. Feeling incredibly thankful for every moment and really excited for what the future holds. ❤️

Making mistakes is an art. Too many, and you have too much to deprogram and course correct, too few, and you're not actually adapting and learning anything. So avoiding mistakes whilst directionally preferable, is catastrophic if taken to its ultimate conclusion, because then you simply won't act at all. So if risk taking is a type of art, you want to make asymmetric bets. What is the cost of failure, and what is the potential upside? Can I survive losing, and what do I gain when I lose that I can incorporate to iterate and improve my probability of success next time? This is what it is to be antifragile. So really, if I had to distil the "art of making mistakes" down to anything at all, it would look something like this: you want to fail as meaningfully as possible as often as possible in recoverable ways that not only provide insight when you lose, but actually rewire and condition your behaviour towards winning so you have what it takes to execute - to invoke an old adage: "practice makes perfect." In reference to conditioning: you probably *can* absorb shocks far more traumatic than you think you can, *but* just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Deep shocks destabilise the system in unpredictable and often hidden ways long-term, even when not acutely experienced in every waking moment, because they can remain dormant until a novel scenario causes your nervous system to flag and thereby associate what's currently happening with a previous negative experience, which then induces the undesirable state related to said experience. These are "psyche fractures" or what you would (assuming you're sufficiently self-aware) recognise as "trauma responses" - the induction of dysregulated nervous system states that cause false autocompleting cognitive errors via hypervigilant threat assessment (false threat tagging), as well as emotional dysregulation or numbness, and undesirable somatic responses such as: insomnia, loss of appetite, loss of interoceptive capacity (the ability to hear your body - for a woman: not being able to detect where you are in your cycle), crying, shaking, nausea, anxiety etc. Some nervous systems are more robust than others, yes, and thus harder to induce fractures into than others - but critically - not even the strongest nervous systems are immune to compromise. You must thread the needle between not being cowardly, and respecting your own well-being enough to operate around the threshold of your limitations (as well as incrementally improving those very limitations) rather than just hammering your own capacities without self-regard. Being kind to yourself in this way isn't even about "liking yourself" in so much as it is about "not breaking myself so hard I don't function properly anymore and don't seem to be able to recover from it".

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