One of the interesting things of being a long-time member of a programming community is that you can do a ton of work (in my case test-writing evangelism), then drop out of it, come back, and be welcomed with open arms (or maybe they are too scared of me to reject me) #phptek24#phptek
@stevegrunwell giving a shout-out to @derickr about Xdebug in his Technical Debt talk makes me realize I've been convincing people to use it for step debugging for almost a decade. #phptek
#phptek The way to get into open source is to show up. Mailing lists, github, discord and slack. Ask questions, read. But first you have to just show up.
Use Value Objects rather than massive $options arrays when exposing an interface for configuring requests made by your SDK, because you want to make your SDK code as self-documenting as possible. - @SecondeJ#phptek
OH: “A lot of the stuff that Python gets praised for being fast at, PHP now outperforms Python at doing, but it’s a story we’re not really telling. We should be telling that story.” #PHPTek#HallwayTrack#PHP