Yanick Witschi

@toflar@phpc.social
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Co-founder @terminal42. Core dev @contaocms. He/Him. Enjoying PHP, Symfony, DevOps, hoops, tennis, music, Bärndütsch and life!
I am super excited to announce the immediate release of Loupe 0.13 which I have worked on in the past weeks. Go checkout the improvements, they are massive! :) https://github.com/loupe-php/loupe/releases/tag/0.13.0 #loupe #php #sqlite #search
Release 💥 0.13.0 - on our way to v1.0! · loupe-php/loupe

🚀 Massive Performance & Concurrency Improvements! I am excited to announce the release of Loupe v0.13, a major step forward towards v1.0 focused on performance, stability, and robust concurrency ha...

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Liip + me = amazing 💚
Liip – me = sad redundancy math 😿


So… new job, I can haz? 😻


I have no clue how to find a new job. I haven’t been looking for over a decade. When I like something, I tend to stick around.



But… Now I'm on the job market.

API's, Symfony, integration developer… or honestly, anything you think I’d love. I’m a fast learner and curious by nature. 🧙‍♂️

If you spot something that fits, hit me up. I bring tons of experience, fun, memes, and clean code.

#php #fedihire

AI will get better and cheaper with time. Eventually, spam bots will submit web forms with legit looking content every few minutes. It will get increasingly hard for customers to distinguish between real and fake form submissions. And basically impossible for automated tools. In other words, our current spam protection captcha solutions will all fail. How are we going to deal with this? #spam #captcha #forms
Composer 2.9 is coming, and there's an RC to try out! We need your help and feedback https://github.com/composer/composer/releases/tag/2.9.0-RC1 #composerphp #phpc
Release 2.9.0-RC1 · composer/composer

Composer 2.9 is ready for a release, and we need your help to test it and report any regression. Please try it out! Running composer self-update --preview will get you the 2.9.0-RC1 Running compos...

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You're not paid to think?

A short piece about what's important in a software development team.

Not velocity. Not throughput. Not KPIs. These things can be valuable, but beware that too much focus on them will lay dry the heart of your development work:

Welcome to Ticket Driven Development...

https://thecynical.dev/posts/ticket-driven-development/

Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere

When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?

The Cynical Developer

Say goodbye to parse_url() headaches! 🥳

PHP 8.5 is introducing a new URI Extension with standards-compliant (RFC 3986 & WHATWG) and secure URL parsing. It provides a clean API and lets you easily modify URI components.

Learn more 👇

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10/10/php-85-uri-extension/

PHP’s New URI Extension: An Open Source Success Story

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

Together with PyPI, Maven Central, crates.io and other major package registries we signed a statement on sustainable open source infrastructure.

3B+ installs/month and evolving #composerphp and packagist.org requires sharing the costs.

Our Blog: https://blog.packagist.com/a-call-for-sustainable-open-source-infrastructure/
Open Letter: https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/

#phpc #php #supplychainsecurity #opensourcesustainability

A Call for Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure

Today, we joined other major package registries in signing an important joint statement on sustainable stewardship of open source infrastructure. Together with Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Open VSX, OpenJS Foundation, OpenSSF and Alpha-Omega, we're addressing a critical challenge: the growing gap between infrastructure usage and support. The Reality We

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🚨 Warning to PHP package maintainers: We did not email you to change your passwords & 2FA. Emails asking you to update your credentials are a phishing attempt. We had the phishing site & domain taken down. If you got the email and entered your credentials, please contact us. #phpc #composerphp

Rückblick auf des #Contao-Core-Entwicklertreffen und Vorschau auf die nächste #LTS-Version (und ein wenig auf Contao 6):

#ContaoRocks #OpenSource

https://contao.org/de/news/rueckblick-auf-das-zweite-core-entwicklertreffen-2025

Rückblick auf das zweite Core-Entwicklertreffen 2025

Jedes Jahr trifft sich das Contao Core-Entwicklerteam zwei Mal für einen kurzen Code-Sprint von drei Tagen.

One of the side-effects of the AI bubble is that we stopped talking about alternative solutions to computing problems. Everything needs to be solved with "AI" - meaning an LLM - and nobody stops and asks if there is an alternative. This drives me mad because LLMs are not only unreliable, but also shockingly inefficient. And I'm positive that for most tasks there *is* an alternative algorithmic solution that is more reliable and less expensive.