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New book: https://things-i-wish-i-knew.com/ https://timeline-taxi.com https://tempestphp.com https://stitcher.io Developer Advocate for PHP @jetbrains.com

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I suggest to take a close look at the readme ;)

28.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge Contribute to tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'd say this weekend is the perfect time to participate in the 100M-row challenge with #PHP!

github.com/tempestphp/1...

28.02.2026 08:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
PHP 1BRC Leaderboard Explorer

Marcos made a proper leaderboard! marcosmarcolin.github.io/leaderboard-...

27.02.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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More than 100 participants; two prize pools for multi- and single threaded solutions; performance already pushed to sub-3 seconds. The 100M-row challenge is doing great!

FYI: if you're with a company that wants to pitch in to biggen the prize pool, feel free to let me know :)

27.02.2026 10:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
100M-row challenge: backend coding and issue solving
100M-row challenge: backend coding and issue solving YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Doing some backend coding for the 100M-row challenge www.youtube.com/watch?v=IclX...

27.02.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok here's a 100M-performance challenge update:

- We're now running on a dedicated Mac Mini to ensure more stable performance
- Over 80 people have submitted an entry
- We now also have a participation prize! So everyone has a chance of winning 😁

26.02.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm literally at the bottom of the list πŸ˜…

25.02.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge Contribute to tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge development by creating an account on GitHub.

How fast can you make it? Here's the 100-million-row challenge in #PHP: stitcher.io/feed/posts/7...

You have two weeks to participate. Thanks to PhpStorm and Tideways for sponsoring the prizes!

25.02.2026 07:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Parsing 100 million rows with PHP
Parsing 100 million rows with PHP YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Come join me live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqFG...

24.02.2026 11:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's up? Is there a YouTrack issue for it?

20.02.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Source mapping is now a thing in Tempest 3.2!

tempestphp.com/blog/view-so...

20.02.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Very interesting: "We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand"

stitcher.io/feed/posts/7...

18.02.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A pretty cool new feature in Tempest 3.1: generate TypeScript types from PHP code! tempestphp.com/blog/generat...

16.02.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no

12.02.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A pretty big milestone today! We've released Tempest 3.0! tempestphp.com/blog/tempest-3

12.02.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Someone actually came back a year later to tell me this, amazing! 🀩

12.02.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Merged a bunch or PRs for tempest/highlight lately. One cool feature we now have is automatic benchmarking to ensure we never make changes that wreck performance.

BTW, if you haven't heard of tempest/highlight before, definitely check it out, it's pretty cool! packagist.org/packages/tem...

11.02.2026 07:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Things that brighten my Monday morning: Fabien contributing to tempest/highlight 🀩

09.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
10 seconds instead of 5 days to process all my data
10 seconds instead of 5 days to process all my data YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Pushing Performance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhIi...

03.02.2026 09:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

Once again processing 11 million rows with #PHP, now in seconds: stitcher.io/blog/11-mill...

29.01.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Processing MILLIONS OF ROWS in PHP in MINUTES instead of DAYS
Processing MILLIONS OF ROWS in PHP in MINUTES instead of DAYS YouTube video by PHP Annotated

The first step of my performance journey, now as a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY4R...

28.01.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The perf optimizations keep coming!

28.01.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"partial function application" is coming to #PHP 8.6. Probably one of my favorite features of the past years

stitcher.io/blog/php-86-...

23.01.2026 07:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Remember how yesterday I optimized my #php replay command to process 14k events per second instead of 30?

Yeah well… someone made a suggestion which bumped that number to 50k events per second.

stitcher.io/blog/process...

20.01.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

This was a very fun experiment! stitcher.io/blog/process...

19.01.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants. – Jose Zarazua

This is genius: stitcher.io/feed/posts/7...

17.01.2026 06:48 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
🚨🚨 PHP IN 2026
🚨🚨 PHP IN 2026 YouTube video by nunomaduro

Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0s...

14.01.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stitcher.io A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.

PHP in 2026! Happy new year :)

stitcher.io/blog/php-2026

12.01.2026 12:34 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One `Enum` interface for both Unit and Backed enums. BackedEnum is a sub type of unit enum, so typing on UnitEnum works, but isn't all the clear imo

09.01.2026 09:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly!

07.01.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0