Brilliant and hilarious. As always 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Sn...

Today I received my prize for winning the #SymfonyOnline January 2026's quizz: the mythical Sympony! 🦓

#PHP is undead whyphp.dev

Starting the weekend feeling like updating some old libs of mine 🌟 Instead had to spend the little time I had planned for it to: combat OS update shenanigans, realise I need Docker kerfuffle to get a chance to tweak it... But this won't stop me 😼

Hot take: #PHP's strict mode is the new weak mode!🍿 Recent improvements to casting rules in default mode are so much better than the explicit casts that strict mode forces on ppl that use it!

Nice podcast between CodeToTheMoons and @orhun.dev Also featuring Bionicles (sortof)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrx...

Yet another PostrgreSQL improvement on the eXtreme Legacy (2005 LAMP) application, when the player wants to read a single message: 1. SELECT message FOR message_id 2. if message is unread: UPDATE SET as read This can be done in one single UPDATE query, with RETURNING

Identifying and fixing a XSS vulnerability in an eXtreme Legacy (2005 LAMP) app. In this article we'll also demonstrate the vulnerability is real, by crafting the message with malicious code and the server to receive the stolen cookies. gnugat.github.io/2026/01/21/x...

How are you still not using #FrankenPHP? That's free perf for everyone and every #PHP project! Just look at those benchmark results. Worst case scenario: same perf as Nginx/FPM, but with one less point of failure. What's holding you back?

👋 Nous recrutons un·e développeur·se PHP/Symfony. Notre obsession : bien faire notre métier pour mener à bien les projets clients. Architecture claire, code lisible, et compréhension fine des enjeux. JoliCode, c'est la qualité. Pour nous, pour nos clients. Rejoignez-nous !

I don't know what took me so long: I finally added a git alias to remove deleted remote branches as well as the local ones tracking them. github.com/gnugat/dotfi...

I've been experimenting with the different models with ✳ Claude Code, and so far my observation is that Opus 4.5 is brilliant for code review (misses less stuff), but Sonnet 4.5 is good enough for the most development tasks (though it might need guidance or plan mode on occasions).

Gotta admire the diversity of eXtreme Legacy (2005 LAMP) code: starting by using switch, then following with if, if, if. I wonder if we can add a match in the mix 😀

Refactoring eXtreme Legacy code with the power of PostgreSQL (part 4)! Replacing 9 statistics queries with just a single 1, using FILTER ⚡

Bionicle 2025 vs 2015 🌊

Claude Code + Refactoring BisouLand = 💙

Found out about the new PHP Pattern Matching RFC🐘 I initially thought of it as another syntax sugar until I saw those diff snippets (from @loicfaugeron.bsky.social). Readability gains for complex logic are huge 🤯 Thanks Crell and Ilija for pushing PHP DX forward 🙏 wiki.php.net/rfc/pattern-...

Starting March 2026, GitHub will charge 0.002$/minute for self-hosted runners 😮 “The vast majority of customers will not see a change to their bill. Actions will remain free in public repositories.” How many people will be impacted? 💰 resources.github.com/actions/2026... #GitHubActions

Subqueries are unreadable. CTEs are not. Use WITH.

Refactoring eXtreme Legacy code with the power of PostgreSQL! In today's tweet: replacing 2 SQL queries (SELECT + UPDATE), with just a single one (UPDATE and RETURNING).

I’ve heard a lot about HTMX but didn’t have time to look too much into it. But after @damienalexandre.fr brilliant talk (“Atteindre la qualité d’une SPA avec HTMX et Twig” at ForumPHP Paris 2025), I‘m looking forward to try it! And I know exactly what project I’ll use it in 💖 youtu.be/wjmCTfVr4Q8

Sometimes, eXtreme Legacy code is too eXtreme. Like, doing a `for` loop on database results, instead of a foreach loop... Plz can I haz help 😿 github.com/pyricau/biso...

This morning, I woke up energized and eager to code. Two years ago, I presented a Terminal component at #SymfonyCon, but never published it due to its flawed design. I've now started over with a better plan to address these challenges. Let's see how far I can go. #symfony

When you switch your eXtreme Legacy (2005 LAMP) app from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and it becomes... 90% SLOWER 🙀. Turns out Pg has a big overhead when making a new connection, so it's better to set it as persistent. Which then makes it 13% faster that MySQL! gnugat.github.io/2025/12/03/x...

This year's #SymfonyCon was incredible -- full of good vibes and awesome talks. Huge thanks to the @symfony.com team for the spectacular organization 🙌 Hope all attendees of my "Rediscover the Console" talk enjoyed it, here are the slides! speakerdeck.com/chalasr/redi...

#SymfonyCon talks, slides and code examples are on GitHub: github.com/SymfonyCon/2... If you were a speaker, please share your slides and consider writing down your thoughts in a blog post #PHP #Symfony #OpenSource

#Symfony 8 is here, and the new Console DevEx is just astounding! (Better exceptions in the terminal, for example when the testsuite fails, is also 👌) symfony.com/8

Sometimes Claude Code likes to toot their own horn

Rector is so awesome! The advantage of continuously executing it (at the same time as PHPUnit, PHP CS Fixer and PHPStan), is that it'll detect when changes that were previously unsafe to do can now be executed safely, and apply them. eXtreme Legacy, part 7: gnugat.github.io/2025/11/26/x...

Upgrading my 2005 LAMP eXtreme Legacy app, from PHP 5.6 to 8.5! Turned out to be quite easy thanks to Rector and PHP CS Fixer. We also get some nice performance improvements! See: gnugat.github.io/2025/11/19/x...

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html #ietf

I'm really impressed with the official "What's new in PHP 8.5" page (today's the release of #PHP 8.5 btw!). It's very well made, great job! www.php.net/releases/8.5...

Claude Code users (especially Laravel/Symfony): you REALLY want to re-install Claude Latest Claude versions will load your `.env` (including secrets!) into Claude Code. Claude then runs your tests with local config instead of testing config!

🚀 New in Symfony 7.4: Better PHP Configuration ➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-better-php-configuration

Symfony 7.4 brings a cleaner way to define console inputs: command arguments and options can now be mapped directly to PHP classes and enums using attributes like `#[MapInput]`, `#[Argument]`, and `#[Option]`. Type-safe, structured input for your CLI commands 🎉🍕🥓 #Symfony #PHP #DX

Ooooh Claude... At least you're trying. "✳ For BisouLand, I think the loveliest port convention would be based on 21 - 'Bisou' has 5 letters, and 2+1+5+0+something = love?"

Thanks to @Pierstoval for sharing this amazing resource to search and compare PHP CS Fixer rules mlocati.github.io/php-cs-fixer...

Tuesday Confession: I love @secondej.bsky.social talks. Full of positive energy, the storytelling is compelling and in service of the topic. And I always learn a thing of two!

🚀 New in Symfony 7.4: Improved Invokable Commands ➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-improved-invokable-commands

🚀 New in Symfony 7.4: Better Exceptions in Terminal ➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-better-exceptions-in-terminal

What if #PHP had nullable and non-nullable cast operators? That's what we would like to propose for PHP 8.6 👀 wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable...

As of #Symfony 7.4, functional tests’ error rendering will finally get you straight to the point with a beautiful, concise output 🥳 Especially useful when doing large refactorings that make dozens of such tests fail while progressing. Before/After 👇

Sometimes, we make typos in the namespace, classname, filename, folder names... Here's how to setup a way: * to check for it: composer dump-autoload --optimize --strict-psr --strict-ambiguous * to fix it: swiss-knife namespace-to-psr-4 src --namespace-root 'App\\' gist.github.com/gnugat/437d6...

Published: eXtreme Legacy 5: PDO Migrating from the deprecated MySQL extension to modern PDO, and the security of prepared statements. gnugat.github.io/2025/10/22/x...

The London School of Pomodoro method is a variant from Great Britain where one makes a tea pot, drinks tea while coding, inevitably takes small (bathroom) breaks, until the teapot is empty which is when a longer break is required (to replenish it). 🫖

Voici mon retour sur la conférence de @dunglas.dev consacré à Franken PHP lors du forum PHP de l’ @afup.org

PIE (the new extension installer in PHP) really is a game changer. I mean so is the entire PHP Foundation by extension (pun intended).

Published: eXtreme Legacy 4: Coding Standards gnugat.github.io/2025/10/01/x...

mega php tip: use #[SensitiveParameter] for sensitive parameters.. php will hide its value in stack traces, error messages, and logs.. this prevents accidental leaks of secrets in production.. absolute chef's kiss tip.. ✨

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