Announcing the PHP Foundation's new Executive Director: Elizabeth Barron.

Some of you PHP old timers will recognize her. Some of the real OGs will even remember PHP Appalachia (but we don't talk about PHP Appalachia, do we?). She's been doing real FOSS supporting work in this space all this time and I for one am really excited to see what she's able to do for PHP in the coming years.

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

#AI #LLM #Programming

📢 We just published a deep dive on compile-time-only generics and we need your feedback!

This isn’t "full generics". It’s a scoped, performance-friendly approach focused on interfaces and abstract classes.

Is this the right direction for PHP?

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/08/05/compile-generics/

Version 3 of the PHP-FIG PER-Coding Style guidelines have been released, covering all the fun new features in #PHP 8.4!

Please help or sponsor your friendly neighborhood coding style tools so they can be updated, too. 🙂

https://www.php-fig.org/per/coding-style/

If you're able to help Joe today, please do. He and his family have a great financial need, and could use our support.

"I have psychiatry and psychology appointments on the 4th and 6th of June. Currently I won't be able to get there because they are at a hospital in my previous town.
My main bank account is overdrawn and they are threatening to close the account (today) if I don't fix it ... I can't fix it."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-big-ask-from-a-big-community

#PHP #PHPC

Shortened text: "We do still need help."

https://gofund.me/e568f036
#krakjoe #php

#PHP Community, Joe Watkins (a.k.a. @krakjoe) needs our financial support to help him and his family. Joe is a longtime member of the community and PHP core developer, but he’s had to take a step back in recent years due to health problems, which have also prevented him from earning income.

Please consider giving. Any amount helps.

https://gofund.me/5873ea9e

Hey #PHP. When you use union and intersection types, do you include spaces?

(RT for reach, etc. This is survey data for @phpfig. If you know of any official policies by major projects already, please note/link in the replies.)

#codingstyle #phpfig

Today, I was cut in layoffs. I’m so gutted because I loved this company, & my team was the best; I’ll miss my team most.

Now, as I look ahead, I’m searching for a staff/principal role where I can help other developers level-up through mentoring, tooling/infra, architecture, & improving DX. I’d love to work with a company contributing to open source & even to the #PHP programming language itself.

Update (27 Feb 2024): Thanks, everyone! I’ve accepted an offer. Please see update in thread below.