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Brent @stitcher.io · 10/08/2026

There's a new polling API coming to PHP! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGpG...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 22/07/2026

Great to see tempest/highlight being used more and more :)

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Brent @stitcher.io · 19/06/2026

😶 Mark casually writing ONE review comment as a real comment so that I cannot mark it as resolved is triggering some deep OCD-like feelings I didn't know I had… Also: we're finally getting close to adding FrankenPHP worker mode support in Tempest, which is great 😊

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Brent @stitcher.io · 18/06/2026

From the Tempest Discord: people are actually building real things with Tempest and impacting lives 🥹

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Brent @stitcher.io · 08/06/2026

One more day until PHPverse!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 06/06/2026

🥹 My son made a drawing for me this morning. Can you see what it is?? 🐘

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Brent @stitcher.io · 21/05/2026

Be honest: you want one, right? Here's what you do: register for PHPverse and retweet this tweet and you might get one delivered to you 😎 Here's the link to register: jb.gg/7ne1ba

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Brent @stitcher.io · 21/05/2026

It's the small things that make the biggest difference

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Brent @stitcher.io · 20/05/2026

I might be giving away some LEGO elephpants in the coming weeks in preperation for PHPverse. Just saying.

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Brent @stitcher.io · 29/03/2026

I'm releasing the audiobook version of Timeline Taxi for free on my personal youtube channel, subscribe if you want to follow along: www.youtube.com/@brendt_gd

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Brent @stitcher.io · 26/03/2026

Idempotent routes and commands in Tempest: tempestphp.com/blog/idempot...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 19/03/2026

The 100M-row challenge has ended! Eventually people pushed PHP close to 2 seconds to parse the full dataset. Amazing! More insights here: tempestphp.com/challenges/p...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 16/03/2026

Bringing Elephpants was a success. Maybe one day, one of these kids will become a PHP programmer. Who knows!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 13/03/2026

The 100M row challenge in PHP is almost coming to an end, and even until the last days, results are improving like CRAZY xheaven.github.io/tempest-100m/

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Brent @stitcher.io · 27/02/2026

More than 100 participants; two prize pools for multi- and single threaded solutions; performance already pushed to sub-3 seconds. The 100M-row challenge is doing great! FYI: if you're with a company that wants to pitch in to biggen the prize pool, feel free to let me know :)

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Brent @stitcher.io · 25/02/2026

I'm literally at the bottom of the list 😅

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Brent @stitcher.io · 20/02/2026

Source mapping is now a thing in Tempest 3.2! tempestphp.com/blog/view-so...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 16/02/2026

A pretty cool new feature in Tempest 3.1: generate TypeScript types from PHP code! tempestphp.com/blog/generat...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 12/02/2026

A pretty big milestone today! We've released Tempest 3.0! tempestphp.com/blog/tempest-3

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Brent @stitcher.io · 12/02/2026

Someone actually came back a year later to tell me this, amazing! 🤩

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Brent @stitcher.io · 11/02/2026

Merged a bunch or PRs for tempest/highlight lately. One cool feature we now have is automatic benchmarking to ensure we never make changes that wreck performance. BTW, if you haven't heard of tempest/highlight before, definitely check it out, it's pretty cool! packagist.org/packages/tem...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 09/02/2026

Things that brighten my Monday morning: Fabien contributing to tempest/highlight 🤩

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Brent @stitcher.io · 28/01/2026

The perf optimizations keep coming!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 23/01/2026

"partial function application" is coming to #PHP 8.6. Probably one of my favorite features of the past years stitcher.io/blog/php-86-...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 20/01/2026

Remember how yesterday I optimized my #php replay command to process 14k events per second instead of 30? Yeah well… someone made a suggestion which bumped that number to 50k events per second. stitcher.io/blog/process...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 07/01/2026

Am I the only one who wants this??

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Brent @stitcher.io · 05/01/2026

Tempest being mentioned in an official PHP RFC 🌊

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Brent @stitcher.io · 03/12/2025

It's been a while since I PRd a whole new Tempest package. Feels very good 🌊

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Brent @stitcher.io · 02/12/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tempest now has 2k stars and its daily installs are also climbing significantly!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 27/11/2025

If you're at @symfony.com conference tomorrow, come check out my unconf talk at 11!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 26/11/2025

tempest/highlight just crossed half a million installs!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 10/11/2025

🌊 A killer new feature in Tempest 2.8: Route Decorators! tempestphp.com/blog/route-d...

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Brent @stitcher.io · 22/10/2025

symfony/polyfill is downloaded so much that its download count doesn't fit on a single line anymore 😂

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Brent @stitcher.io · 14/10/2025

Timeline Taxi is nearing its one year anniversary. I'm preparing something awesome!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 02/10/2025

This is what OAuth support looks like in Tempest 2.2. I think it's pretty 🤩

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Brent @stitcher.io · 01/10/2025

You know, don't mind me doing my casual code reviews 😇

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Brent @stitcher.io · 29/09/2025

When I wrote about impact charts, I really missed a proper dot-grid notebook to keep track of mine. So I made one. If you read the "Things I wish I knew" book, really liked it, and want to support me, I made two versions of that notebook for sale (normal and XL, banana for scale)

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Brent @stitcher.io · 19/09/2025

Think quick — PHP's new pipe operator: what do you think the output will be in PHP 8.5?

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Brent @stitcher.io · 17/09/2025

Pretty sure @freek.bsky.social will like this one: in Tempest 2.0 we've split the database migration interface into two: MigratesUp and MigratesDown, implementing a down migration thus becomes optional

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Brent @stitcher.io · 17/09/2025

I just love Tempest's simplicity! 🌊 I'm finally converting aggregate to Tempest, and I'm migrating data between two databases, super easy 🤩

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Brent @stitcher.io · 15/09/2025

My paperback book just arrived, always a little more special being able to physically hold what you've written.

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Brent @stitcher.io · 12/09/2025

Small beginnings, but this is nice!

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Brent @stitcher.io · 12/09/2025

If you want something to do during the weekend, I highly recommend checking out my new book! things-i-wish-i-knew.com

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Brent @stitcher.io · 23/07/2025

I have a confession to make… I prefer to use union null over ? to mark nullable types, and also prefer to start the union type with null| Am I the only one???

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Brent @stitcher.io · 05/07/2025

Can you spot where in this graph Tempest was released? Granted, it are still baby steps. But hey, gotta start somewhere :)

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Brent @stitcher.io · 17/06/2025

I'm really proud of what we managed to do with #PHPverse today. Thank you everyone ❤️

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Brent @stitcher.io · 16/06/2025

I mean… This is a good reason to attend #phpverse tomorrow, don't you think?

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Brent @stitcher.io · 11/06/2025

Something I've been working on slowly but am super excited about: Timeline Taxi part 2, as well as an audiobook of the first book 🤩 Lots of work to be done still, and I'm not putting any pressure on myself, but we're making progress 💪

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Brent @stitcher.io · 10/06/2025

Just published a new video! I had fun with this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaS...

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