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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…

Laravel 12, and a starter kit we did not use

Deep diveMarch 19, 20258 min read

A major release in February that is deliberately almost nothing, and an upgrade guide that fits on a page.

PHPUnit 12, and the tests we deleted instead

Deep diveMarch 13, 20259 min read

A two-hour upgrade, and a directory of 188 tests excluded from every tool since 2023 and running on every push.

Static analysis at level 10, and the four errors that stayed

NoteMarch 12, 20252 min read

Level 10 treats every unspecified type as mixed rather than as a wildcard, which is the last real step and finds a specific class of gap. The two…

The container binding that was resolved on every request

NoteMarch 12, 20252 min read

A singleton bound lazily and resolved eagerly by a line in the same provider, four years after somebody added it. Sharing a value with every view is the…

Laravel 12, and an upgrade guide that fits on a page

NoteMarch 10, 20252 min read

A major release in February whose upgrade guide is shorter than most patch notes. A major that is almost nothing is either a mature framework or a stalled…

An API versioned for the first time in six years

Deep diveMarch 6, 202514 min read

Six years of additive-only changes, and a change that cannot be additive. A field whose meaning must change, with four consumers reading it.

A PSR-14 dispatcher, and the listener I could not order

NoteFebruary 19, 20252 min read

PSR-14 deliberately says nothing about listener priority, which is a principled decision and occasionally an obstacle. Two listeners on the same event where one must observe the other’s…

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…

Mutation testing on a second directory

NoteJanuary 23, 20252 min read

A technique applied to one directory in 2023, extended to a second, with a much worse result and a better reason. A low score on code that implements…