The February release types the application skeleton rather than the framework internals, which is a smaller change than the headline suggests and a useful one. Typing the skeleton…
PHPUnit 10 deprecates the docblock forms in favour of attributes, which is a mechanical change across every test file and a real improvement. Attributes are parsed by the…
A class with six static factory methods and a private constructor, where five of the factories did the same thing with different argument names. Named constructors earn their…
A minimal base image sounded like an easy win and turned out to be a wash, because the extensions pull the libraries back in. The nine megabytes between…
A test that fails between 23:00 and midnight, once a year, and passes on every rerun. PSR-20 standardised this interface in 2022, which is worth adopting for the…
A billing module everybody agrees should be separate, a team of four, and 88 classes that reference it. The boundary, drawn in code rather than in conversation.
The codebase had it in about 60% of files, which is the worst of the three possible states because nobody can tell which behaviour applies where. The seven…