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A generator’s return value needs getReturn, exactly once

NoteApril 5, 20222 min read

A generator may return a value as well as yielding, and the value is only readable after the generator has finished. The pattern is useful for a summary…

Moved blocks, and the Terraform refactor that destroyed nothing

Deep diveMarch 30, 202210 min read

1.1, and a block that renames a resource without destroying it. Renaming a module meant a plan that wanted to drop a database.

Concurrent rendering is not a feature you turn on

Deep diveMarch 15, 202214 min read

18 in March, after two years of alpha, and createRoot is the whole opt-in. Then a fortnight of consequences.

Laravel 9 moved to Symfony 6 and took PHP 8 with it

Deep diveFebruary 17, 20229 min read

February, the first annual major, and a version number that means less than it used to. The work is two packages that block everything.

Laravel 9 accessors are one method rather than two

NoteFebruary 15, 20222 min read

February’s release replaces the get-and-set method pair with a single method returning an Attribute object. The old syntax still works and is not deprecated, so this is an…

Elasticsearch 8 turns security on and removes types

Deep diveFebruary 11, 202214 min read

February, and a major that changes the default posture rather than the API. The cluster starts and nothing can connect to it.

A first-class callable binds visibility where it is written

NoteFebruary 3, 20222 min read

The … syntax produces a Closure bound at the point of creation, which means a private method can be handed out and will still work wherever it is…

A block theme is a directory of HTML files

Deep diveJanuary 25, 202216 min read

5.9 on 25 January, and templates/ replaces the template hierarchy. A theme with 41 PHP templates and an editor that cannot see any of them.

A hybrid theme keeps PHP templates and gains theme.json

NoteJanuary 6, 20222 min read

A classic theme can add theme.json without becoming a block theme, which is the migration path for an existing site. The flip is abrupt: creating templates/index.html makes WordPress…

array_is_list, and twenty years of guessing

NoteDecember 29, 20212 min read

Deciding whether an array was a list or a map had been done with array_keys($a) === range(0, count($a) – 1), which allocates two arrays to answer a question…