How much "baggage" is currently in your composer.json file?
I surveyed 200 active developers to gauge the average weight of a modern Laravel application. The results highlighted a distinct split in the community regarding the "Build vs. Buy" mentality.
Over half of the respondents (54%) fall into the 6–15 package range. Given standard best practices today involving tools like PHPStan, Pint, and Debugbar, this feels like the industry standard.
#Laravel #PHP #developer #programming #technology

Phpmyadmin does not start #apache2 #php #phpmyadmin #database
https://askubuntu.com/q/1563331/612
Quoi de neuf les devs? #163 - Veille tech et l'interview de Raphaël
https://go.itanea.fr/nl163
#dev #programmation #php
🤔 Is this a #Composer normalization quirk caused by how #PHP encodes empty vs non-empty maps when regenerating composer.lock?
`stability-flags` is logically a map, but when empty Composer may serialize it as `[]` instead of `{}` especially after;
composer update --prefer-dist --prefer-stable
- Same dependency graph
- Different lockfile bytes / hash
Semantic determinism ✅
Byte-level determinism ❌
#Nix #BuildSystems #ReproducibleBuilds

I dream of a day where #PHP has some kind of (OPTIONAL) function/variable import/export system, if only to control scope in functional programs.
Referral Abuse Detector
Flag self-referrals and rapid referral farms.
#php #python #referrals #fraud #growth #risk #backendsafety #security #reliability #viralcoding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lPVS26aiI
👀 Berlin… something’s coming.
Four days where Symfony takes over the city — hands-on trainings, powerful talks, and the energy of the community 💻⚡
Save the dates. Get ready. This one will be special.
📅 April 21–24, 2026
👉 https://live.symfony.com/2026-berlin/
#Symfony_Live #Symfony #Berlin #PHP #DevCommunity

Heute wieder #RDD => Rage Driven Development. #php #software
If your custom validation rule internally defers to an existing Laravel rule and just inverts the logic, you might be able to avoid the custom rule altogether. Notice what I found in a recent code review. #php #laravel https://masteringlaravel.io/daily/2026-01-27-ruleexists-vs-ruleunique
```php
$a = [];
$b = array_merge([4 => 1], $a);
```
Which one is true now:
Released: laminas/laminas-text 2.13.0
#php #laminas
https://github.com/laminas/laminas-text/releases/tag/2.13.0
Xdebug client for the terminal:
https://github.com/dantleech/debug-tui