Norbert Orzechowicz

Flow #PHP 0.41.0 is out! I managed to put together a quick blog post summarizing the most important changes / additions. Read more at: flow-php.com/blog/2026-06-2…

For those who never seen SEAL, you should start from the docs: php-cmsig.github.io/search/ by @alex_s_

Flow #PHP and SEAL (Search Engine Abstraction Layer) can now talk to each other, through flow-php/etl-adapter-seal package! flow-php.com/documentation/… Building search engines was never easier with #PHP

Creator of Sqlite on pull requests: "You say, oh, it's free. No. It's not free. What you're doing is asking me ... to maintain it for you, to to document it for you, to test it for you, to maintain it for you for the next 25 years. That's not free." Yep. Wise words from a wiser man than me. I've told people for the past decade and I have recent posts on here saying the same: the merge button is the easy part. Its the decade+ (Richard says 25 years) that follows where you've accepted the transfer of maintenance thats hard.

I'm working on Flow #PHP #Symfony (later laravel) - a fully functional demo app with ETL pipelines used for imports/exports/api, based on Flow PostgreSql and Flow Telemetry. Initially private (invitations only), please reply or send me a DM if you would like to take a look

Flow #PHP Telemetry (OTEL on steroids) is getting advanced attributes filtering processor 💪 With built in rules compilation, we can now filer signals by scope/signal attributes

Flow #PHP #Postgresql will support PostgreSql 18 since in relase 0.39.0 💪 flow-php/postgresql - AST parsers / deparser - migrations - query builder covering whole pgsql syntax - integrations with phpunit / symfony - AST based paginators / query modifiers

Flow #PHP Symfony PostgreSQL Bundle now supports excluding specific database objects from migrator diff generator by custom exclusion policies

@SheltonLouisGT I have been attempting to migrate pretty much since last year. Back then it wasn't ready, but @azjezz put insane amount of work into it since then, making it prod ready 💪

@norbert_tech Mago is quite new! Is it mature enough for you?

I migrated entire Flow #PHP into Mago Linter / Formatter / Analyzer. What before was taking more than a minute now takes 5 seconds. One tool replaced 3 providing insane performance boost. Since Mago is also very strict it helped me to improve Flow code quality 💪

@thomasdijkstra I personally think it's better and stricter - Flow codebase is 6 years old, it holds 50 packages, and I was able to migrate it and at the same time improve code quality

@norbert_tech Currently using phpstan, rector and csfixer. Saw mago pop up a while ago but it wasn't really there yet. Is it as good as phpstan etc nowadays? Or still missing a lot of rules/features?

@crmdesign8 @azjezz and its also on my list to add into Flow 😁 Already using it in few other places, it's great!

@norbert_tech @azjezz Mago guard is also a great tool to avoid boundaries issues. Worst to try if didn’t already.

Flow #PHP 0.38.0 is out! It's a technical release that doesn't bring too many new features. Recently I have been mostly focused on moving project to Mago Analyzer (formatter / linter are already there). More details: github.com/flow-php/flow/…

@faguo @azjezz I think mago i stricter than phpstan, but with my codebase size, it's more about performance

@norbert_tech @azjezz I kept them all, as they do not cover the same patterns nor go to the same depth. Can you share more details of the move you made? That sounds interesting !

I migrated Flow #PHP to Mago by @azjezz - for now only linter + formatter (working on static analyze). Performance gain is mind blowing 🤯 I also moved away from composer scripts towards just - much better DX now! Never used Mago? You should give it a try!

@binaryfire @azjezz I think it's closer to 10x-20x look at carthage-software.github.io/static-analyze…

@norbert_tech @azjezz Nice. What kind of perf difference are we talking? More than 2x? I’m thinking of switching our monorepo over. phpstan and cs-fixer are great but painfully slow on large repos. Even when using multiple processes.

@maks_rafalko @azjezz cs-fixer and rector for now, working on replacing phpstan, but Mago seems to be more strict so need to migrate one package at time

@norbert_tech @azjezz Got rid of phpstan and php-cs-fixer? Or using together?

And now we also have dark/light/system theme switcher 🤩

Flow #PHP got a new website for 0.37.0 release! This time the bright orange and blue colors were replaced with more toned versions of dark purple. Glowing effect around code samples was also removed. flow-php.com new version is up and running.

mdparser 0.3.0 adds two HTML-postprocess flags every CMS asks for: GitHub-style heading IDs, and rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" on every emitted link. Both off by default. Pure HTML post-pass; AST and XML output unaffected. github.com/iliaal/mdparser