Brent
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New book: https://things-i-wish-i-knew.com/
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Developer Advocate for PHP @jetbrains.com
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Brent
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· Nov 3
👋 To people considering following me, here's what you can expect from me on bsky:
- Tempest, a PHP framework me and others are building
- PHP in general, new updates, opinions, …
- Timeline Taxi, a sci-fi novel I've recently published (and who knows if there's more to come)
- Tempest, a PHP framework me and others are building
- PHP in general, new updates, opinions, …
- Timeline Taxi, a sci-fi novel I've recently published (and who knows if there's more to come)
Things that brighten my Monday morning: Fabien contributing to tempest/highlight 🤩
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Things that brighten my Monday morning: Fabien contributing to tempest/highlight 🤩
Pushing Performance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIi...
10 seconds instead of 5 days to process all my data
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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February 3, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Pushing Performance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIi...
Once again processing 11 million rows with #PHP, now in seconds: stitcher.io/blog/11-mill...
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January 29, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Once again processing 11 million rows with #PHP, now in seconds: stitcher.io/blog/11-mill...
The first step of my performance journey, now as a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY4R...
Processing MILLIONS OF ROWS in PHP in MINUTES instead of DAYS
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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January 28, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The first step of my performance journey, now as a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY4R...
The perf optimizations keep coming!
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
The perf optimizations keep coming!
"partial function application" is coming to #PHP 8.6. Probably one of my favorite features of the past years
stitcher.io/blog/php-86-...
stitcher.io/blog/php-86-...
January 23, 2026 at 7:51 AM
"partial function application" is coming to #PHP 8.6. Probably one of my favorite features of the past years
stitcher.io/blog/php-86-...
stitcher.io/blog/php-86-...
Remember how yesterday I optimized my #php replay command to process 14k events per second instead of 30?
Yeah well… someone made a suggestion which bumped that number to 50k events per second.
stitcher.io/blog/process...
Yeah well… someone made a suggestion which bumped that number to 50k events per second.
stitcher.io/blog/process...
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Remember how yesterday I optimized my #php replay command to process 14k events per second instead of 30?
Yeah well… someone made a suggestion which bumped that number to 50k events per second.
stitcher.io/blog/process...
Yeah well… someone made a suggestion which bumped that number to 50k events per second.
stitcher.io/blog/process...
This was a very fun experiment! stitcher.io/blog/process...
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January 19, 2026 at 1:54 PM
This was a very fun experiment! stitcher.io/blog/process...
This is genius: stitcher.io/feed/posts/7...
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants. – Jose Zarazua
stitcher.io
January 17, 2026 at 6:49 AM
This is genius: stitcher.io/feed/posts/7...
Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0s...
🚨🚨 PHP IN 2026
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January 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0s...
Am I the only one who wants this??
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Am I the only one who wants this??
Tempest being mentioned in an official PHP RFC 🌊
January 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Tempest being mentioned in an official PHP RFC 🌊
Live with Nuno! www.youtube.com/watch?v=csnh...
🚨🚨 EMERGENCY: Super Safe Controllers, Form Requests & Tooling
YouTube video by nunomaduro
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December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Live with Nuno! www.youtube.com/watch?v=csnh...
Join me on the daily open source grind! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL3x...
The daily open source grind
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December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join me on the daily open source grind! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL3x...
Aggregate is no more.
Well, actually, it simply has been moved 😁 stitcher.io/feed
I hope the redirect on the RSS feed works as intended. Let me know if your RSS reader is showing weird stuff!
Well, actually, it simply has been moved 😁 stitcher.io/feed
I hope the redirect on the RSS feed works as intended. Let me know if your RSS reader is showing weird stuff!
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
stitcher.io
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Aggregate is no more.
Well, actually, it simply has been moved 😁 stitcher.io/feed
I hope the redirect on the RSS feed works as intended. Let me know if your RSS reader is showing weird stuff!
Well, actually, it simply has been moved 😁 stitcher.io/feed
I hope the redirect on the RSS feed works as intended. Let me know if your RSS reader is showing weird stuff!
If you're following stitcher's RSS feed, I might have just flooded your feed with a lot of posts from aggregate.
If that's the case, I'm sorry 😞 It was an accident
If that's the case, I'm sorry 😞 It was an accident
December 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you're following stitcher's RSS feed, I might have just flooded your feed with a lot of posts from aggregate.
If that's the case, I'm sorry 😞 It was an accident
If that's the case, I'm sorry 😞 It was an accident
🚨🚨 Diving into my oldest codebase EVER
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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December 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just sent out my last newsletter of the year. Take a look, maybe you'd like to subscribe as well? stitcher.io/mail/archive...
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
stitcher.io
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just sent out my last newsletter of the year. Take a look, maybe you'd like to subscribe as well? stitcher.io/mail/archive...
2 hours from now, I will be taking a deep dive adventure into the OLDEST #php codebase I've ever written.
It's an absolute monstrosity 😬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxZ...
It's an absolute monstrosity 😬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxZ...
🚨🚨 Diving into my oldest codebase EVER
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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December 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
2 hours from now, I will be taking a deep dive adventure into the OLDEST #php codebase I've ever written.
It's an absolute monstrosity 😬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxZ...
It's an absolute monstrosity 😬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLxZ...
💀 Reviewing my own code from 10 years ago
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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December 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What could go wrong? Writing your own test framework.
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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December 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Had a great stream with @enunomaduro yesterday, and we're doing a second part next week!
Here's my personal highlight: youtube.com/clip/UgkxLnU...
Here's my personal highlight: youtube.com/clip/UgkxLnU...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Had a great stream with @enunomaduro yesterday, and we're doing a second part next week!
Here's my personal highlight: youtube.com/clip/UgkxLnU...
Here's my personal highlight: youtube.com/clip/UgkxLnU...
Surprise! One more coding livestream this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZV...
Being white noise for vibe coders
YouTube video by PHP Annotated
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December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Surprise! One more coding livestream this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZV...