Wouter de Jong (@[email protected])

In 2013, @fabpot started a challenge of creating a Symfony app with only 1 file and 200 lines of code. Today, I showcase how far we get with modern Symfony in my latest blogpost: wouterj.nl/2026/02/200-li…

New blog post on how we manage env variables to configure our applications in Kubernetes, to allow changing them without a redeploy: wouterj.nl/2026/02/manage…

wouterj.nl/2025/12/symfon… To celebrate 20 years of Symfony, I've crunched a bunch of numbers and share some memories of Symfony development since the 2.0 release in 2011.

@weaverryan A very happy birthday to you!! 🎈 Keep kicking, and hopefully we'll manage to meet one day again 🤗

Today I turn 41. Cons: have this mean-ass brain tumor Pros: unlike last year, I’m at home. Also, my MRI from Monday is stable and I watched my baby cousin get married last weekend Plenty to be grateful for

@jeffrey_way The nice thing with syntax highlighting is that it doesn't have to be strict or validate the syntax. The private(set) syntax probably works out of the box for most, as private is already a keyword in the property definition and (set) will just be ignored (get the plain color).

I always wonder if it's a nightmare for syntax highlighters to keep up with language changes, or if it's not too difficult. This PHP 8.4 code looks *nothing* like what you might have written in the PHP 4 days.

@weaverryan @symfonycon Would love to see you there next year! ❤️ I'll certainly miss you in the hallway track the next days, but it's for the better cause 💪

Heading out solo tomorrow to Boston to see docs at Mass General to talk CAR T. Lining up the possible next steps. Things ok at the moment, but gotta stay 5 steps ahead! Next year let’s travel to @symfonycon instead!

Agreed. The value of PR descriptions is often in things that are NOT directly inferable from the changes: - What original problem led to this PR? - Are there related issues / prior discussions? - What alternatives have been tried? Does this supersede previous attempts? - Why are certain seemingly unreasonable choices made? What are the tradeoffs? AI that generates summary based on the changes of an isolated PR is not really helpful in a meaningful way. Good PR descriptions need not only a holistic understanding of the entire codebase, but even the contribution history of the project. That’s of course harder to do, but I think it’s a possible direction to make it actually useful.

@weaverryan Booo-ing with you. Keep fighting Ryan 💚

Seizure last night in front of the whole family. Doing ok, but scan came back a bit dirty, possible “regression”. Booooo. Send love, encouragement and any ideas - looking into CAR T at MGH

@brad_frost stimulus.hotwired.dev and turbo.hotwired.dev

If you were to build a reasonably-interactive web app not using the React ecosystem, what would you reach for?

New post on my blog: 📝 Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes wouterj.nl/2024/08/git-no… We distribute code using Git, but the discussions in pull requests are just as important! I'll show how Symfony also distributes the discussions using Git.

@GromNaN @GrahamJCampbell @enunomaduro But also, PHP 8.1 is almost 3 years old and in security fixes only phase. Any codebase that is actively developed should not be blocked by that 😅

@GrahamJCampbell @enunomaduro There are solutions to keep compatibility with old PHP versions. #L293" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/twigphp/Twig/b…

great to see global functions like "md5" aren't getting deprecated in PHP 8.4; i've used them before, not for "security" reasons, but just to generate random hashes from a string for basic "checksum" purposes i think most people use it for "checksum" purposes too

@enunomaduro MD5 and SHA-1 are useless today. For non-secure hashes, use the faster XXH algorithms. xxhash.com For security purpose, use secure algos with a seed. php.net/manual/en/func…

@VotrubaT @switchtrue_ As far as I'm aware, sub-splits of Laravel are in the illuminate vendor. Are you sure laravel/container is the package you want, and not illuminate/container? #L2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/illuminate/con…

@switchtrue_ Challenge accepted! 😄

Yesterday I spot a popular, working, useful PHP tool I wanted to try and install. But failed... 😅 There are many packages like this. I'm writing a post on how to do it better. Can you guess the topic? 😇

@weaverryan A very late happy birthday Ryan! I'm happy to hear your friends could be there to brighten up the special day.

The pizza was fantastic… and we went to a baseball game!

Today I turn 40. Not how I pictured it: in the middle of chemo and radiation for a cancer that can’t be cured, working my ass off to keep walking, and away from my family. It sucks. On the bright side, 2 friends are visiting me in Durham and we’re making pizza tonight (non-trivial with my highly restricted diet)

@YonelCeruto And to finish the challenge (that is, without Symfony UX): you can use \Twig\Environment::createTemplate('<!doctype html>...')->render() to fully inline the template in the app.php file as well, moving everything to 1 file.

@YonelCeruto Yes, going to write a blogpost about it soon as well. Symfony has improved a lot between Fabien's old challenge and today. Btw, in your example you can make the Kernel class anonymous and reduce it to even more lines of code :)

Big shoutout to @wouterjnl for reminding me of Fabien's old 2013 challenge: building a full-stack Symfony app in one file! Check out my attempt here: github.com/yceruto/symfon…

@Nekdev @lyrixx GH doesn't allow to specify closure reasons. It's not "we don't want this feature", but it's "there is no way to implement this feature atm (that is worth it)". If someone has a great new idea on how to implement it, or a new PHP feature allows for this, we're happy to reopen!

@lyrixx I actually agree on this one. Not really about the discussion (it makes sense to me even though it's a bit - idk why - aggressive against enums)... But more about the fact that the issue is closed with everybody agreeing on something missing for enums.

Lovely comment 😂

@welcoMattic @VenetAxel1 You don't need to use PSR-7 yourself if you use a dependency that "is compatible with PSR-7"? Or do I miss something important here?

@SymfonyCasts @zenstruck Wooot perfect man for the job! Congrats and have fun @zenstruck & sfcast team!

Best day ever at SymfonyCasts! Kevin Bond (aka @zenstruck) is joining the team as a tutorial author and to work on open source. Expect great new tutorials in the style you love… but with a Canadian flare. We couldn’t be happier! buff.ly/3USKebA

@_Codito_ It's even more stupid because it was a very simple string replace for some days/weeks in production, leading to all sorts of security issues with domains ending in "twitter.​com": krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/twitte…

FFS, it even replaced Twitter's domain in my tweet and now it looks dumb 😂. Or is it only rendered like that? Regardless, stupid idea.

NOOOOOOOOOOO, twitter.com now redirects to x.com and I am forced to use this aberration of Melon's mind 😩. This is the worst rebranding I am aware of. #TwitterForever #SiempreTwitter #LeaveXForEggplants