Only 2 weeks until this year's @phpukconference.bsky.social! My talk will be the story behind #wdydy site EverythingIsShowbiz.com - a side project that started as "search podcast transcripts" and spiralled into the good, bad, and ridiculous world of AI-assisted development in PHP. #php #phpuk

WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE A LIVE SHOW IN DUBLIN. March 3rd, baby. On sale now. Tickets on sale now: www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/56740...

🎭 When a #PHP side project turns into a full #AI-powered system… @conroyp.bsky.social talks about the real lessons from building PHP + AI beyond the hype. #IntPHPCon |📍BER | 📅 June 8 – 12, 26 The session: https://f.mtr.cool/nfztgkerhg #GenerativeAI #SideProjects

Tic Tac Toe (or Xs and Os) is a fun game, loved by small kids in particular. Though once you get the hang of it, it more often than not ends up in a draw. TicTacGoAway.com is a version I* put together which adds a small twist to cut down on draws and get more winners.

⚡#ModernPHP offers tools that make your code cleaner, safer & more expressive. @conroyp.bsky.social highlights the features many devs miss and how they elevate your everyday workflow  #IntPHPCon|📍 BER | 📅 June 8 – 12, 26 🎓The session: https://f.mtr.cool/pvchkoxnuo #CleanCode #DeveloperExperience

🎉 PHP turns 30! A new @devmio.bsky.social expert roundtable brings leading experts — to share what makes PHP still thrive 🚀 ft. @spriebsch.bsky.social, @naderman.de, @conroyp.bsky.social - and many more! Dive into the full interview: https://tinyurl.com/59ubsdrs #IntPHPcon #PHP #WebDev #PHP8

Expanding your business internationally has never been easier - more demand, more channels, more global customers. 🌍 But the payments side hasn’t always kept up. Multi-currency pricing still creates pain: unpredictable FX, messy reconciliation, transfers landing a few cents off - no fun!

When I’m watching longer YouTube videos, I usually bump the speed up to 2× or 3×. Recently though, YouTube’s UI has gotten a tad erratic. Some videos have the full speed menu. Others only show the menu, but stick at 1x with no way to change it.

Over the past couple of months, "Average Position" in Google Search Console has shot up across loads of sites. Normally great news! Except impressions and clicks are often down. 🤔 So what's going on under the hood here?

Thanks to everyone who came along to my talk at @phpconference.bsky.social today, "Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be)". Great to see so many familiar faces in the room, and also to talk to some new ones afterwards! The slides are up now at speakerdeck.com/conroyp/mode...

💡 What happened at #IntPHPcon Munich? ⚙️ @conroyp.bsky.social – Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using 🏗 Thiago Cordeiro – #DDD & Clean Architecture A great mix of modern syntax and solid structure — showing how PHP keeps evolving for scalable, maintainable apps 💪 #PHP #SoftwareArchitecture

LinkedIn have taken to sending notifications warning you of notifications you may have missed. Potentially useful! In practice, not so much. They're not warning of useful ones (connection requests, post responses), but "person you don't know is playing game Y/posting in group Z you're not in" etc.

I'm excited to be speaking at Build Stuff in Vilnius this December! "Digital Cat & Mouse: Strategies to Outsmart Phishers, Scrapers, and Thieves" covers the (mis-)adventures that taught me how to protect digital assets in the wild (selling 10 Downing St, moving the Eiffel Tower to Dublin, and more)

We've all done it - testing on staging, click send… suddenly a real user replies to your test email. Laravel has a one-line feature that prevents that from ever happening again: Mail::alwaysTo() It quietly redirects every outgoing email to a single, safe inbox. Tiny feature. Big sigh of relief!

Lately, Google’s been hitting us regularly with copyright violation notices. The alleged crimes? Posting photos like... a traffic sign, a Dublin statue, and some houses under construction. Apparently we stole them from OnlyFans creators.

📐 Build PHP apps that scale and adapt! Explore DDD, microservices, SOA & serverless in the Software Architecture & Design track. Learn from experts like Sebastian Bergmann, @conroyp.bsky.social‬ & @spriebsch.bsky.social‬. 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/cwrjurbywy

I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the International PHP Conference Munich @phpconference.bsky.social 2025! 📅 October 27–31, 2025 | 📍 Munich, Germany 🗣 Topic: Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be) 🔗 Details: phpconference.com/php-core-cod...

An incredible ‘What Did You Do Yesterday?’ resource

Gary Neville was ahead of his time

Hey @phlaimeaux.bsky.social, throwing my hat in the ring for the data nerds group in the broader wdydy-verse, thought you might get a kick out of a recent side project of mine, everythingisshowbiz.com

Looking forward to @phpconference.bsky.social in October! My talk is “Modern PHP Features You’re Probably Not Using (But Should Be)”. It’s about moving past a PHP 7.x mindset, and using the powerful features PHP has added in recent years. Enums, match expressions, readonly classes - we'll do it all!

I recently gave a talk, "Avoiding Déjà Vu: Building Resilient APIs with Idempotency". I've published a summary of the session, going over practical techniques to build resilient APIs. It covers 🧠 What idempotency really is 🧪 How to design safe retries 🔒 Locking and TTL advice

Aer Lingus has announced a lot of new routes to the States. I suspect this particular plane won't be the first choice to make the transatlantic trips though.

🌐 Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now (or "When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas") Inspired by @quinnypig.com's famous post about Route 53 being a database, I wondered what's the opposite? If DNS can be a db, what's the most absurd way to implement a DNS server? By building it using Stripe metadata, obviously!

The New Zealand high commissioner to the UK fired for remarks made at Chatham House. He must be wishing that there were some kind of established Rule that prevented comments there being made public. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I've been sceptical in the past of no-code/low-code tools - burnt once too often by WYSIWYG tools in the early 2000s! But tools like Stripe checkout, Zapier, and Hubspot workflows have brought a sea change in the quality and quantity of these tools, as well as huge time and money savings.

🎉 Excited to announce that I've been accepted to speak at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam on March 21st! 🌐 I'll be giving a talk on idempotency – what it is, why it’s so useful, and how big players like Stripe and AWS leverage it in production. 🎟️ On sale now: egeniq.paydro.com/dpc-2025

Struggling to get local LLMs like Deepseek or Llama running smoothly on Ubuntu with an AMD GPU? You're not alone! Ollama is great for running LLMs locally, though needs a few tweak to add support for older AMD cards when running Ubuntu www.conroyp.com/articles/run...

There's a small part of a larger post by Byrne Hobart that's stuck with me for a long time, about managers having two types of people when delegating: * send an item, tick it off your list, it'll be done * send it, then add an extra item to your list, reminding you to chase them for results

🎤 Thrilled to announce I’ll be speaking at CyberWiseCon in Vilnius this May! My talk covers the cat-and-mouse game between website owners and some of the internet’s more enterprising characters - scrapers, phishers, & content thieves. 🎟️ Grab your ticket here: cyberwisecon.eu

We recently had a project with tricky APIs - slow responses, CORS configuration issues, and heavy rate limits. Enter Cloudflare Workers! ✅ Caching - faster responses, avoid rate limits ✅ CORS proxy ✅ Serverless ✅ Generous free tier www.conroyp.com/articles/ser... #webdev #serverless #apis

My daughter recently got very into puzzles, particularly simplified Sudokus. The problem was that she loved the puzzles in her comics, but they only come out once a week - a limited supply! In an exceedingly-rare case of "developer actually finishes side project", I put together www.kidssudoku.com

Did you know you can use Google Sheets to power a JSON API? And you can do it without using any additional servers? The Apps Script built into Sheets can be used to power a simple API - perfect for building quick, simple apps and prototypes! www.conroyp.com/articles/usi... #webdev #api #serverless

I look forward to these end of year lists by Tom Whitwell, always full of interesting stories - haunted Chinese apartments available at a discount, horseback raves, sanction-busting cheese, Mikel Arteta's pickpocket squad - it's all in there! 52 things I learned in 2024: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...