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Typed class constants, and the interface that had been lying

Deep diveDecember 7, 202310 min read

8.3 on 23 November, and a constant can finally declare a type. An interface constant documented as a string, implemented as an int in one class.

The method that stopped overriding anything in 2019

Deep diveDecember 5, 202310 min read

#[Override] in 8.3, and what it asserts. A subclass method dead since a parent rename four years ago, with a bug report closed as not reproducible.

The interface with one implementation, and when that is fine

Deep diveNovember 16, 202310 min read

140 interfaces, 128 of them with exactly one implementation, and a jump-to-definition that always lands on the wrong file.

A PSR-3 context array nobody was reading

NoteOctober 26, 20232 min read

Every log call carried a context array, the log format rendered it as a string, and the aggregator indexed it as one blob. The context array is the…

A value object library, and the day it needed a serializer

Deep diveSeptember 20, 202310 min read

A Money type, an Email type, and thirty more, none of which can cross a boundary without being unwrapped by hand.

A container we replaced with four functions

Deep diveApril 12, 20238 min read

A package with a dependency injection container, for eleven services, spending 90 ms compiling on a request that does 12 ms of work.

PSR-18, and the HTTP client we stopped writing

NoteApril 12, 20232 min read

Three packages in the same application, each with its own curl wrapper, each with its own idea of what a timeout means. The value is not the abstraction,…

The generic PHP does not have, and the analyser that does

Deep diveFebruary 27, 20239 min read

A collection class that returns mixed, and forty call sites asserting the type by hand. Docblock generics, and where they stop being worth it.

An HTTP client faked at the PSR-18 boundary

NoteFebruary 8, 20232 min read

Mocking a client library’s own interface couples every test to that library; faking the standard interface does not. Throwing on an unstubbed request is the design decision that…

A monorepo for four packages and one application

Deep diveOctober 5, 202210 min read

Four packages, four repositories, and a change that spans three. A version bump dance that takes an afternoon.