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Today we published our Impact and Transparency Report for 2025. We are incredibly grateful for our sponsors, partners, contractors, and individual financial contributors for without them, none of our work would be possible. We are also grateful for the PHP community and core contributors who consistently continue to show up and help make PHP better for all of us. We are all in this together! 💙 🐘 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/05/27/impact-and-transparency-report-2025/
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The PHP Foundation Impact and Transparency Report 2025

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

Matthew Setter 3d ago

Larry Garfield 4d ago

I hate to link to the Dead Bird site, but this is the entire business model:

https://x.com/alex_prompter/status/2059240459222868479

"They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

And still, people expect me to use this BS for my job.

#AI #LLM #FuckOpenAI #FuckAI

Alex Prompter (@alex_prompter) on X

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it

X (formerly Twitter)

Matthew Setter 4d ago

Raphael Albert 5d ago

German outlets are reporting about a study done by lobbyists that (miraculously) found that businesses are unhappy with the GDPR.

Obviously, this still hasn't been said enough: the GDPR's purpose isn't making businesses happy! Its purpose is to protect our rights. It's necessary because far too many businesses won't respect our privacy unless they're forced to!

If running their business responsibly is such a huge burden for them, maybe they should let someone else do it.
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#privacy #GDPR

Matthew Setter 4d ago

I get that of all tech writing file formats Markdown is the most popular. But, that doesn't make it the best choice.

There are so many ways in which it could just be, well, better.

Matthew Setter Aug 4, 2025

Feeling pretty frustrated right now. I just want a damn static site which I can customise with a minimum of fuss. Not to have to become an expert in an SSG to build. It feels, at the moment, that I should just build my own site and be done with SSGs

Matthew Setter Oct 23, 2024

Matthew Weier O'Phinney Oct 22, 2024

Last week, @zend published an article I wrote on the upcoming #php 8.4 property hooks. Coupled with async visibility (which I'll be writing about soon), I think PHP has gained some hugely useful and powerful features for defining data and value objects.

https://www.zend.com/blog/php-8-4-property-hooks

A Guide to PHP 8.4 Property Hooks | Zend by Perforce

PHP 8.4 property hooks represent an exciting leap forward for PHP. Our expert walks through why property hooks matter and explains how to use them in your code.

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