Missing the Bus: When the “Bus Factor” Threatens Open Source Projects
David Bisset
Accidents and unforseen setbacks happen — to open source projects and their maintainers. The "Bus Factor" has been felt a lot lately.
WP-CLI 2.5 Release Pending
David Bisset
The long-awaited 2.5.0 release of WP-CLI is happening Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. Several obstacles converged to slow its progress in 2020.
WebP support seems to be in…
Dan Knauss
WebP support seems to be in the cards for WordPress. Jonny Harris shared this Trac ticket on Twitter and added the following comment: "Worked really hard on this one and I am proud of it. Massive props to @roundearth for…
Joe Watkins has an excellent (and…
Dan Knauss
Joe Watkins has an excellent (and potentially scary) read here on how some major aspects of the PHP project might depend on just a few people. He asks how many people does the PHP project depend on — and he…
If you’re a PHP developer using…
Dan Knauss
If you're a PHP developer using Composer, please be sure to read this new advisory on a potential supply chain attack. ☠️
Leonardo Losoviz explores why you might…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz explores why you might want to support "CMS-agnosticism" using the GraphQL API for WordPress plugin and the 91 PHP packages it contains. 📦
Leonardo Losoviz explains how you might…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz explains how you might be able to host all your PHP packages together in a "monorepo." "The monorepo allows us to version-control all our packages together, so that creating a new branch and submitting a pull request will…
The official PHP Git server was…
Dan Knauss
The official PHP Git server was attacked this past week. The attack is still under investigation, but actions were quickly taken to protect it, and there is no active security risk. To learn more, you can read Enrico Zimuel's explanation.…
Brent Roose has a preview of…
Dan Knauss
Brent Roose has a preview of what to expect in the upcoming release of PHP 8.1: Array unpacking with string keys A new array_is_list function Enums (Enumeration types) The RFC is still under discussion on enums, but the proposal to…
Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement a GraphQL server with components in PHP. He starts by defining components, and then he describes "the architectural design of the GraphQL server in PHP GraphQL by PoP, which uses components as a data…
🧪 Here’s a MySQL engine that’s…
Dan Knauss
🧪 Here's a MySQL engine that's written in PHP for unit tests. 😲 (Hat tip to George Peter Banyard.)
Matt Brown from Vimeo defends PHP…
Dan Knauss
Matt Brown from Vimeo defends PHP against two types of critics: those who view old PHP code as legacy code, and those who think PHP can't be "redeemed" at all: "I'm here to tell you that [PHP] can [be redeemed],…
Github has published its annual State…
Dan Knauss
Github has published its annual State of the Octoverse, which looks at its communities and user activity in 2020. Even if you aren't a Github user, it's interesting to see what a vast piece of the developer community is doing…
If I had a nickel for…
Dan Knauss
If I had a nickel for every time I heard "PHP is dead" I'd be rich! Warrick Bayman seems just as frustrated: "It isn’t dying and it isn’t reaching 'end-of-life.' That’s it. No matter how much some people want it…
“If PHP didn’t exist, what would…
Dan Knauss
"If PHP didn’t exist, what would be your primary coding language today?" I got a lot of interesting and some surprising answers to that question on Twitter. 🐦 Totaling up all responses, I got: Python 31% JavaScript 28% C /…
I enjoyed these recent comments Travis…
Dan Knauss
I enjoyed these recent comments Travis Weston made about "clean" PHP code: "You have to go out of your way to write clean PHP... that’s not to say it’s hard to write clean PHP, just that it requires you to…
