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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…

#[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.

A framework upgrade that was mostly deleting

Deep diveMarch 14, 20249 min read

Laravel 11 in March, a skeleton with four fewer directories, and an application still carrying 2019’s structure.

PHPUnit 11, and a suite that had already been migrated

Deep diveFebruary 29, 20249 min read

11.0 in February, a year after the 10.0 migration did the hard part, and eleven deprecations that were all things 10 had warned about.

The migration Rector wrote and we rewrote

Deep diveFebruary 7, 202410 min read

An automated refactor across 412 files, a diff of 8,000 lines, and three wrong hunks in it. The review nobody could actually do.

Layer rules after a merge, and the baseline that grew

NoteFebruary 6, 20242 min read

Merging two codebases produced a layer rule baseline of 188 violations, where each had been under five. A baseline that jumps is nearly always a configuration problem rather…

A typed constant on an abstract class, six months on

NoteJanuary 11, 20242 min read

Six months of typed class constants, and the useful case turned out not to be the one the feature was announced for. What I wanted was an abstract…

A typed class constant, and the child that narrowed it

NoteDecember 8, 20232 min read

Constants were the last untyped declaration in the language, and 8.3 fixes that with the covariance rule you would expect. The type is checked at compile time on…

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.