Dan

Made blog post for project structure make legacy code quick yo: www.dantleech.com/blog/2026/01...

UK folks should sign this petition (which I know never makes a difference, because why would the government actually listen to people?) but worth a shot. Starting to see effects of this roll out and it's making me angry 🙄 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #OSA #OnlineSafetyAct #UK #UKPolitics

I've been working on an DBGP (Xdebug) step-debugging TUI. It allows you to step forwards and backwards, shows inline values and has vim-like key bindings. This release includes a macos build. github.com/dantleech/de... #php #rust #xdebug

Oh look, my company's logo :)

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Why would I sign a contract and then ignore it? This feature seems odd, and not sure why so many people are voting yes. wiki.php.net/rfc/optional...

Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies.

I wouldn’t normally repost The Mail but… 🫡

Spent the day improving my workflow! Introducing the "wsdl inspect:ui" command which opens up a TUI to inspect what information we know about your WSDL. #php #soap

Really enjoyed giving this workshop on building an Expression Language!

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index

Running the Portland Coastal Marathon: www.dantleech.com/blog/2025/02...

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Looking forward to speaking about #PHP Value Obejcts and You 🫵 at DPC on the 21st of March!

Create an expression langauge in #php or another #programming language in one our or more (or read in 5 minutes or less) with my patented* expression langauge recipe (blog post) with added Godzilla: www.dantleech.com/blog/2025/01...

#PHP, DTOs, C-DTO, and You 🫵 a mildly opinionated blog post www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/12...

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

So the EU has decided to standardize all chargers to USB C. That's great. Meantime in Brexit:

I got tired of mocking frameworks in class-based languages, so I created the simplest, most compatible, and most powerful mocking library that I could imagine. It's great for PHP / Java and other class-based languages. github.com/ShawnMcCool/...

As someone who deals with legal documents on a near-daily basis, this is accurate.

My Year in the Year 2024 in Years: www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/12...

Food is a complicated topic, especially trying to balance nutrition with lower climate impacts and animal welfare, but I’ve taken a stab at explaining a bunch of it here with no nonsense or judgement. philsturgeon.com/unf-king-the...

Go look up TIME’s 1938 Person of the Year

I don't like the whole "can't edit posts" feature on this platform. Editing posts is basically my thing.

Want to learn about how to bring the power of generics to PHP? For the next 24 days I'll be releasing a video a day to cover all you need to know about generics in PHP and the tools required. Day 1 - Introduction: vimeo.com/1035029403

The curse of being able to code is that every time I run into a small issue with a piece of software I want to write my own version from scratch

Hey PHP devs, fun fact: the #️⃣ emoji starts a line comment!

I keep hacking on my Rust Strava TUI. It's a glorious mess and it's great. github.com/dantleech/st...

my sister: why do you delete so many posts me: sometimes you don't know something's really stupid until you send it out into the world my mother: *staring at me just a beat too long*

I wrote a new blog post: PHP, Value Objects and You 🫵 www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/11...

Blogged about my PHPBench workflow: www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/09...