Arrived just in time at Laravel Live Denmark to see @sebastian 🥳🤓

I get that expecting everyone to speak English isn't fair, especially since many have the unfair advantage of it being their native language. It’s not mine either. But social media has connected me with amazing people worldwide - imo it'd be a shame to limit posts to just German speakers.
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I feel sad when PHPeers mostly post in their native language, which I don’t speak. I mostly don't follow those accounts, even though their posts could be very insightful. It feels very unfortunate, as I love how connected the PHP community is globally!
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It’s release day! 🥳 v2.0 of the crawler package is finally out! 🚀💪🏻
A lot of work went into removing deprecated 1.x features. Now we can focus on new features and improvements again!
Check out the detailed upgrade guide here: https://www.crwlr.software/packages/crawler/v2.0/upgrade-guide

F*** Cookie Banners. But if there'd be oscars for those, this one by
@jetbrains should be nominated! 😅👏

OK, the $57M Series A investment explains the huge team growth at laravel recently 😅
Congrats to Taylor and the team.
Still have to say, that I hope, commercial interests won't have any negative impact on laravel's OS projects.
But for now I believe it will be a great thing for the whole PHP community! 💪🚀

Compressing the string "Hello World!" makes it longer 😅

Wow, the crwlr/query-string package just passed 500.000 installs. I admit it's only because bref decided to use it as a dependency, but still makes me proud! 💪🚀🥳

Just wanted to write an array as code to a file.
Like: <?php return [...];

I knew there was var_export(), but the arrays it prints are damn ugly. Like:
array(1 => 'foo', 2 => 'bar') 🤮

Thankfully I found brick/varexporter. If you ever need this, I'd recommend this package 👍🏻

https://github.com/brick/varexporter

For all the Austrian PHP Devs 🇦🇹:
A quick reminder that there is a Discord Server called "PHPeople Austria". We're not a very big group yet, but we're a chill bunch with a love for PHP 🫶🐘
Come and join us!
https://discord.gg/M8FR8B4g

Question: you're developing a library and you let users provide their own implementation of something, by extending an abstract class. You add a new method to the abstract class. Should you tag a major version, because the new method name could conflict with user's code?

Yay, I just deployed the new crwl.io landingpage 🥳
I'm making big steps towards the public launch 💪🏻 who's interested => sign up for the beta, I'm going to send out some more invites soon.
If you have a use case for crawling/scraping, but don't want to do it on your own, just contact me any time!

https://www.crwl.io

A new major feature for the crawler library is on it's way: you'll be able to use (rotating) proxy servers for loading!

https://github.com/crwlrsoft/crawler/issues/99#issuecomment-1739339750

As it is hacktoberfest right now, I'll wait a few weeks before tagging a new release, but you can have a look at it, try it, give feedback. 🙂

Read about this RFC for DOM HTML5 parsing and serialization in the latest edition of PHP Annotated and love it! 💪 Do it!
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/domdocument_html5_parser

Is anyone of you doing localization with laravel, inertia and vue? What's your approach to it?

As I didn't find any Chat-Groups for the Austrian PHP Community (tell me if I'm missing something), I just created a Discord Server called PHPeople Austria. If you want to join: https://discord.gg/4Ttgfv5S
Sharing is appreciated! Let's get the PHParty started!

*lol* twitter locking out themselves! 🤦‍♂️

This is interesting...

”People do use Add to Home Screen… Recently we were testing some prototypes on iOS… Of the 10 people we talked to, 4 were familiar with this flow and had saved various things this way. When I mentioned this to others on the UX team a few shared similar stories… What does that tell us? It tells us that it’s something that at least some regular people do and that it’s not a hidden power user feature… it’s a good reminder to check your assumptions.”

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2023/02/people-do-use-add-to-home-screen/

Oh looks like it just stopped.

Nice! There's a live stream of the main track of the #phpuk conference! 🤩 🙏 🤓 👏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eag8mbIWR_0