Quo is now live. A new free open source variable debugging tool
https://github.com/Protoqol/Quo

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When One Worker Can’t Keep Up: Scaling Projections
https://medium.com/@dariuszgafka/when-one-worker-cant-keep-up-scaling-projections-16a7de72f95f

https://redd.it/1syrck9
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When One Worker Can’t Keep Up: Scaling Projections
https://medium.com/@dariuszgafka/when-one-worker-cant-keep-up-scaling-projections-16a7de72f95f

https://redd.it/1syrcex
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Academic feedback needed
/r/learnprogramming/comments/1syttau/academic_feedback_needed/

https://redd.it/1syuok3
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Announcing laravel-sluggable v4 with self-healing URLs
https://freek.dev/3112-announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls

https://redd.it/1sz0xj3
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Technical debt is not malice
https://phpunit.expert/articles/technical-debt-is-not-malice.html

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Aimeos e-commerce framework 2026.04 – PHP 9 ready, Laravel 13, Symfony 8, security hardening and more

We just released Aimeos 2026.04, the PHP e-commerce framework for custom online shops, market places, complex B2B apps and #gigacommerce:

Ready for PHP 9: Minimum raised to PHP 8.1, all deprecations removed across core and 30+ extensions, fully tested on PHP 8.5. PHPStan static analysis added at level 4 with zero errors.
Laravel 13 & Symfony 8: Day-one support for the latest framework versions. The stand-alone shop and headless distributions ship on Laravel 13 out of the box.
Customer CSV import: Full import pipeline with address/property support, regex validation, group filtering and admin UI upload — rounding out CSV import for products, catalogs, suppliers and now customers.
- Product feed extension: New extension for generating Google Merchant and Idealo product feeds. Includes several configuration options to customize the exported products and details.
Security hardening: XSS prevention via HTML sanitization in the CMS, GraphQL query depth/complexity limits, and tighter permission checks in the admin API.
PHPUnit 12: Stricter test isolation and deprecation handling across the entire test suite.

For those who haven't come across Aimeos before — it's an open-source e-commerce framework (LGPLv3) built for PHP developers who want full control over their shop without being locked into a monolithic platform. A few things that set it apart:

Framework-native: Integrates directly into Laravel, Symfony or TYPO3 as a composer package. You use your framework's routing, auth, middleware and tooling — Aimeos plugs into it rather than replacing it.
Headless-first: Full JSON:API and GraphQL APIs out of the box. Use any frontend you want — Vue, React, mobile apps, or the included server-side rendered HTML client.
Multi-tenant / multi-site: Built-in support for running multiple shops from a single installation with separate catalogs, pricing, languages and currencies per site.
Scales from small to large: The same architecture powers single-product shops and marketplaces with millions of products. ElasticSearch and Solr integrations are available for high-volume search.
Extensible, w/o forking: 30+ extensions for payments, shipping, CMS, feeds, caching (Redis), search engines and more. Custom extensions follow the same pattern without touching core code.
No SaaS lock-in: You host it yourself, own your data, and can switch or extend anything.

GitHub: https://github.com/aimeos/aimeos
Docs: [https://aimeos.org/docs](https://aimeos.org/docs)
Demo: https://demo.aimeos.org

If you like Aimeos, give it a star :-)

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What's New in Laravel 13.7: JSON Assertions, @fonts & Worker Signals
https://youtu.be/EC3UYLyggBQ

https://redd.it/1szxa31
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Aimeos: Laravel e-commerce 2026.04 released – now on Laravel 13 with PHP 9 readiness, security hardening and more
https://redd.it/1szxtvp
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Microsoft Drivers 5.13.1 for PHP for SQL Server released - security fix for connection pooling

5.13.1 is out with several fixes for the sqlsrv and pdo\_sqlsrv extensions:

* **Access token leak in pooled connections** \- Connections with different access tokens could share the same pool entry, causing identity cross-contamination and use-after-free. Fixed by incorporating the token into the pool key.
* **Silent INSERT failure** \- Prepared INSERTs could silently fail when triggers or `SET NOCOUNT OFF` produce extra result sets, causing implicit rollback with MARS enabled.
* **Fatal error re-executing prepared statements** \- Re-executing a prepared statement returning multiple result sets with different column layouts could crash. Metadata is now properly freed between executions.
* **sqlsrv\_errors() returning null** \- After a failed connection with no ODBC diagnostic records, `sqlsrv_errors()` returned null instead of the actual error.
* **Stream invalidation** \- Binary streams became invalid when the originating statement went out of scope.

Drop-in upgrade from 5.13.0, no API changes. Supports PHP 8.3/8.4/8.5.

Install: `pecl install sqlsrv` / `pecl install pdo_sqlsrv`

Full blog post: [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/announcing-microsoft-drivers-5-13-1-for-php-for-sql-server/4516258](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/announcing-microsoft-drivers-5-13-1-for-php-for-sql-server/4516258)

GitHub: [https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql)

Docs: [https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/microsoft-php-driver-for-sql-server](https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/microsoft-php-driver-for-sql-server)

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Terminal is Super Slow

For some reason my terminal is super slow. e.g. something as simple as composer require laravel/reverb in a new Laravel project can take up to 10 minutes to complete. It seems like it hangs/freezes midway, and sometimes it finishes the job and other times it crashes.

I tried disabling all extensions, clearing cache, and setting "disable-hardware-acceleration": true, but nothing helps.

I'm on a Dell Precision 7670, 64gb ram, i9, Win 11.

Any ideas?

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Google Gen AI SDK has no official PHP SDK — Google asked for stars and use cases

Google Gen AI SDK currently supports Python, Node.js, Go, Java, and .NET/C#, but there is no official PHP SDK.



I opened a public Google Issue Tracker request for official PHP support:



https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/507647520



Google Cloud replied that, according to their Public Issue Tracker process, feature requests usually need a handful of stars and comments from several users before the engineering team works on them.



So if official PHP support for Gemini / Vertex AI GenAI SDK matters to you, please consider starring the issue or commenting there with your real use case.



Existing PHP options such as `google/apiclient`, `google-cloud-php`, and GAPIC-generated clients do not provide the same unified GenAI SDK developer experience as the official SDKs for other languages.



Useful comments would probably include things like:



\- whether you need Gemini Developer API,

\- whether you need Gemini API on Vertex AI,

\- whether you need both through one unified SDK,

\- whether you use Symfony, Laravel, or another PHP stack,

\- whether streaming, tool calling, multimodal input, structured output, or file upload support matters to you.



This is not about asking for a framework wrapper. The missing piece is an official PHP SDK equivalent to `python-genai`, `js-genai`, `go-genai`, `java-genai`, and `dotnet-genai`.

https://redd.it/1t05rx8
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Join Us for PHPverse 2026 on June 9
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2026/04/join-us-for-phpverse-2026-on-june-9/

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Reli 0.12.0 is released with major expansions in tracing, memory analysis, monitoring, and runtime inspection
https://github.com/reliforp/reli-prof/releases/tag/0.12.0

https://redd.it/1szzaxu
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Handling Excel Files

Does anyone have any package recommendations for processing Excel files that isn't maatwebsite/excel? It's dependencies are stuck on a PHP version < 8.5, which blocks the current 8.5.5.

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Symfony 8.0.9 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-8-0-9-released?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Problems with escapeshellarg
https://deployer.org/blog/quote-vs-escapeshellarg

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I benchmarked Laravel's two main module systems. The result contradicts the assumption that the Composer-native one is automatically faster.

https://redd.it/1t0pcbe
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