Are you able to join us at #PHPverse on June 9? Join our Executive Director & keynoter @ElizabethN, along with a fantastic lineup of expert speakers (including Board member @naderman). A free virtual event that you won't want to miss! thephp.foundation/blog/2026/… #php #phpverse2026

"token-shaking" is the new "mouse-jiggling"

(Spoiler: YES!) It's time to talk about Magento's future. We think Adobe will do the right thing and help us ALL preserve a $30B GMV technology. linkedin.com/posts/activity-…

I really do think there's a generational thing at work here. Those old enough to remember The Station nightclub fire in '03 know that once fixtures are enflamed, GTHO!

I'd be interested to see an overlay of ZIRP timing for each of these (no snark intended)

"In 2026, is Magento sinking into the ocean?" Short answer: not at all. This was a question in r/Magento, and my answer turned into an exposition. If you don't know me, I was chief evangelist & community wrangler for Magento for many years. linkedin.com/pulse/2026-mage…

*checks date on post*

Yesterday I saw a post saying it (aka Silicon Valley for AI) would be London. Methinks these aren't well-founded hypotheses. (My equally-unfounded hypothesis? The Silicon Valley for AI will be... Silicon Valley.)

just got PHP threads working on iOS 🎉 true parallelism and background tasks coming to @nativephp soon

I want people to chime in on this assessment.

polar cost $2m to build over the course of 3 years. it's open source. it's free. enjoy. github.com/polarsource/polar

Proud to announce we just renewed our annual $18,000 sponsorship for the The PHP Foundation! Check out this summary on the work completed in 2025. So much more could be accomplished, if all businesses using PHP contributed. Sign up as a sponsor and help moving PHP forward!

OpenAI’s perception as having ceded the top position in AI with respect to frontier model development and consumer adoption forces a few realizations: - Vertical integration is critical. Last month, I fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 with Vertex AI and deployed to an endpoint on GCP with a few command line inputs and clicks in the GCP web interface. The enterprise use case probably requires more functionality than mere API access; it has to provide the technical ligaments for integration and deployment. - Distribution isn’t disrupted. Google and Apple continue to control the principal content dissemination points for consumers, and although recent regulatory / legal challenges have challenged total app store control (eg., third-party app stores and payments), Google emerged from its antitrust trials with Search primacy in tact. “Google’s Gambit” proved successful: AI Mode has 75MM DAU, AI Overviews has 2BN MAU, and Google and Apple remain the fundamental chokepoints for consumer discovery and engagement. - Ads remain the dominant / inevitable business model for mass-market consumer products. A disciplined product development process needs to accommodate the ads monetization model from the earliest stages and manage the ads-related engagement / monetization tension as a product priority. Delaying the introduction of ads simply inflates the presumed consumer pushback ("enshittification", the fatuous notion that excess consumer surplus is beneficial in the long term).

If you could get a NativePHP for Mobile license just by sponsoring the project (any amount, one-off or recurring), would you?

Many teams ship ChatGPT/Claude to production for simple tasks. That's like using a Formula 1 car for a McDonald's run. Here's how to choose what features need AI and which models to use: web.dev/articles/right-sized… Lower latency. Reduced costs. Better privacy. Smaller footprint✌️

When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting Such a great design detail 💡

💥 I’ve been doing these visual explainers, this one is about rendering on the web, I’ll post one each day this week. Hopefully it helps break down stages- parsing, render tree construction, layout, paint, etc, for folks who are learning.