PHP Quality Tools – phploc lines of code

Maari Casey over at uncompany had a recent LinkedIn post about planning for freelancers. She made some good points, but I think skipped one, and it’s not just relevant for freelancers. Even well before an organization might need extra work – be it freelance or employee – companies need to have a plan for onboarding….

I’ve been testing out the Jetbrains AI service the past few months. Used Copilot for a while in 2023, then Codeium for about a year, and am now trying Jetbrains. I can’t say I notice much of a difference for most of the standard code I deal with, but I did recently start using Jetbrains…

The idea of a deployment per branch is not a new one, but often more difficult to set up than it might first appear. There are multiple approaches to take, many dependent on your final target setup. I recently came across a project targeting Laravel Forge, building on their SDK to provide an automated deployment…

I get an email newsletter from Martin Joo every week or so. The newsletters generally have some useful tips around the Laravel framework or sometimes just general development tips. I’ve learned a couple of neat tricks here and there, and will continue to receive. This morning I received an email with a Laravel ‘tip’ regarding…

I’m starting to read “Four Thousand Weeks” from Oliver Burkeman. I initially listened to much of the audio book, then bought a copy (link above to Amazon – no affiliate link). Have not finished yet, but the core message of the book seems to be There’s certainly more to it than this, and again, I’m…

Have been needing to programmatically fill out an I9 PDF, retrieved from gov site. Should be fairly straightforward, right? Well… the field names are… a mess. Field names like topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].U\.S\._Social_Security_Number__Last_4_numbers_[0]topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].expiration_date__if_applicable__mm_dd_yyyy[0] topmostSubform[0].Page2[0].Employers_Business_or_Organization_Address_Street_Number_and_Name[0] and so on make it pretty… not straightforward to create a usable key/value combination to search and replace. But… today, I noticed it got…