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The service class that was three procedures

NoteJune 2, 20252 min read

A class named for a noun, containing three methods that share no state and call nothing in common. A class whose methods share no dependencies is a namespace…

A package I published, and the API design I got wrong twice

Deep diveMay 19, 202516 min read

turkerdev/php-figma-api, a typed client for a third-party REST API, and two design mistakes that only appear once somebody else uses it.

An aggregate that grew a second reason to exist

NoteApril 16, 20252 min read

A Subscription that had been correctly scoped in 2023 and had acquired a usage counter written thousands of times a day. An aggregate boundary is correct at a…

private(set) on a collection, and the array copy that saves you

NoteApril 10, 20252 min read

Exposing an array property publicly for reading felt unsafe until the copy semantics were the point rather than an accident. PHP arrays are values, so reading one gives…

#[Deprecated] on a constant, and the notice nobody saw

NoteMarch 28, 20251 min read

A deprecated class constant emitting a notice on every use, into a channel that had been discarding notices since a configuration change in March. The same mistake as…

A first-class callable stored on a readonly property

NoteMarch 20, 20252 min read

A strategy passed to a constructor as a callable, which used to be a closure with a comment and is now something an analyser can check. The docblock…

A property hook that should have stayed a method

NoteFebruary 10, 20251 min read

A get hook that looked like a property, read like a property, and issued a database query. The rule I wrote down in December — pure, cheap and…

The trait I replaced with a constructor argument

NoteJanuary 8, 20252 min read

A trait providing a logger to eleven classes, each of which called a static accessor to get one. The trait was hiding a service locator behind a method…

#[Deprecated] on a method, and what the engine does with it

NoteDecember 24, 20242 min read

Deprecating a method had been a docblock tag that only an IDE respected, and 8.4 makes it something the engine reports. It works on functions, methods, constants and…

Property hooks, and the getter that was a habit

Deep diveDecember 16, 202410 min read

8.4 on 21 November, and a property can have a getter without being a method. 412 getters that return a property unchanged.