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ProgrammingOne of the most exciting additions in PHP 8.5 is the pipe operator. It enables more readable and expressive code when working with nested function calls.
Posts by Dominik Chrástecký - Blog
About me
I'm a developer and an architect with ~10 years of experience. My languages of choice are PHP (Symfony), C#, Go and Typescript. With a tiny bit of Java and C++ here and there. I often write open source libraries, you can find my work on my GitHub. I started this blog for 3 reasons: I've wanted to start a blog for the last 15 years but never had time, I wanted a personal place where I can share whatever's on my mind, and I wanted to create something that uses ActivityPub.
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ProgrammingUse PHP’s FFI to supercharge your application by offloading compute-heavy work to Go!
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ProgrammingA small but meaningful update in PHP 8.5 introduces asymmetric visibility for static properties.
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ProgrammingPHP 8.5 adds support for final properties using constructor promotion. In this (very short) article, I’ll show you everything you need to know about this new addition.
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ProgrammingPHP 8.5 adds a new function for calculating the Levenshtein distance between strings — now with proper UTF-8 support.
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ProgrammingPHP 8.5 introduces support for attributes on non-class constants. This article walks you through everything you need to know about this new feature!
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ProgrammingToday, we'll explore one of the exciting features coming with PHP 8.5—the new #[NoDiscard] attribute to indicate important return values.
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ProgrammingCreating a basic Matrix bot is straightforward—generate an access token, send an HTTP request, and you're done. But posting messages to an encrypted room with verified sessions is a bit more involved. This guide will walk you step-by-step through creating your own encrypted Matrix bot using Golang.