Insights & updates from the build floor

Jul 08, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - July 8, 2026

This Week in PHP Internals — July 1 to July 8, 2026. The Deprecations RFC fought about WordPress and then about evidence, Time\Duration declared itself complete...

By Len Woodward

Jul 01, 2026 PHP

This Week in PHP Internals - July 1, 2026

The Deprecations RFC turned into a fight about honesty, Rob Landers opened Primary Constructors, and a user wrote a heartfelt "Disheartening Rant" about async —...

By Len Woodward

Jun 16, 2026

Oops, They Did It Again

After a month long scramble to move automated workflows away from Claude, it turns out we didn't have to... yet.

By Ed Grosvenor

Jun 08, 2026 Clients Security

We've Had the Tools All Along

The tools required to keep us safe from the new threats have mostly been around for years. We just haven't been using them.

By Ed Grosvenor

Jun 01, 2026 Clients AI

There's No Such Thing as Stable

Needy apps that throw exceptions and crash from time to time might be less dangerous than the ones that never cause you headaches.

By Ed Grosvenor

Mar 16, 2026 AI

Beating Agent Anxiety

I've broken out of the rate limit rat race, and my Claude subscription is working for me full-time on things that really move the needle.

By Ed Grosvenor

Mar 11, 2026

The Trial Period Might Be Ending

Anthropic might have just signaled that the trial period we've all been enjoying is about to come to an end.

By Ed Grosvenor

Feb 14, 2026 AI

The New Folly of Conventional Wisdom

As the way we build applications evolves, our dogma must evolve with it. It might be time to stop saying a rewrite is never the answer.

By Ed Grosvenor

Feb 09, 2026 FFmpeg

Why Your FFmpeg Drawtext Words Don't Line Up

PHP's GD library and FFmpeg both use FreeType to render fonts. They produce different pixel measurements for the same text. Nobody warns you about this

By Len Woodward