Author: Stefan
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Some years ago, during lockdown times, ThePHP.cc talked me into writing a talk for their online conference. They knew my company tried to support open source in several ways and hoped that I would share the how and why. Since then, I’ve done that talk at several conferences (including the amazing Dutch PHP Conference and…
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Yesterday my PHPStorm updated to the latest version 2026.1, and since then I had issues with it. It seemed to have a dark overlay or a shadow of a window over part of or the whole window (depending on whether the screen was maximized or not). I could still work in PHPStorm, but it was…
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It took me a while to really sit down and reflect on it, but March 13 was the day of Dutch PHP Conference aka WebDevCon aka AppDevCon. What I love about this threesome of conferences is that it isn’t limited to just PHP, while you can still enjoy a whole lot of PHP content. Funny…
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This post is long overdue. We made the switch from Slack to Mattermost early last year, in our effort to have more control over the systems that we rely on, and also to try and remove the dependency on the US given the current (geo)political climate there. I’d been wanting to try out Nexaa for…
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OK, so this is a short and quick post just to clear some confusion. I spent hours and hours trying to figure out what the hell was going on when I was running into this NS_ERROR_CORRUPTED_CONTENT for javascript files For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what the cause was for this error.…
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Last week I started at a new customer and they’re fully committed to the Azure DevOps environment. They use their Git repositories, their project boards and also their pipelines. Since the project I’m working is currently their only PHP project, they did not yet have any experience with setting up pipelines for a PHP project.…
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One of the most discussed subjects during code reviews or in projects is not a functional thing but more a style thing: How does the code look? What coding style do we adopt? And while it feels like mostly a cosmetic thing, the code style is actually quite important. It determines not just how you…
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With the risk of sounding old: When I was young, if you wanted to learn something, you basically had two options: Read a book and start self-teaching, or book a training session and learn through that. Since then, a lot has changed. And that’s a good thing. Video tutorials, podcasts, blogs, magazines, monthly usergroups, conferences,…
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been an Apple Fanboi. Well, no, not that long, but ever since I started working at Ibuildings in the 00’s and getting my first Mac, I was sold. Unfortunately at some point for a power user like me the laptops started becoming less interesting (and also way…
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With only a few more days to go until Dutch PHP Conference 2025 it’s time to look forward to the conference. DPC is always a good conference (and has always been so), but I’m going to put focus on some talks that I’m really looking forward to. Sacred Syntax: Dev Tribes, Programming Languages, and Cultural…