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I'm Matthew Weier O'Phinney. I am a software engineer and architect, PHP expert, standards developer, and product manager. I create the tools that PHP developers use to build and deploy their applications, from APIs to content management systems. In addition, I am:

He/him.
A husband.
A father of two wonderful children.
A tangle artist.
An open source software developer and advocate.
Serial Basset Hound owner, and Boston Terrier wrangler.

I blog on this site, as well as elsewhere (see the icons next to the "Recent Blog Posts"), typically on topics related to open source development. Feel free to contact me.

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At that stage in my career where a majority of my day is often in meetings, and a primary duty is connecting folks to relevant subject matter experts.

It's... Okay. But as an introvert, it's hugely taxing.

And the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is sit at a desk... But drawing is my best recharge activity.

😑

— posted 7 days ago

@grmpyprogrammer Enjoyed your latest blog post, but there's one thing I think you're hugely optimistic about. You state, "let's be real, 90% of PHP code out there still running and accessible online is object oriented".

It's not.

WordPress accounts for half of all websites where PHP is known to run.

— posted 13 days ago

@wyri Is there anything like php-pm for managing worker pools that are doing their own processing (i.e., NOT web servers or listening on sockets)?

I was looking into your child process pool repo, and tried it, but I don't see evidence that mulitiple processes are being spun up.

Basically, want a pool of workers that are polling a data store and working in parallel. I've done this with Swoole, but have a use case where swoole doesn't work well.

— posted 23 days ago

Do you use #psr7 in #php? I've finally opened the PSR Evolution vote to add parameter and return type declarations: