Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan)

Loves my family, loves Motorsport, especially #F1. Enjoys programming, particularly in #php and using #laravel

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@rectorphp I'm glad this has been added to Rector. I looked for it in Rector the other day. I already use the Easy Coding Standard rule, which does the same. 🎉

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

💖 I'm sponsoring Leo Khoa https://t.co/Pd2jyFZBRW because he is the author of Laragon https://t.co/wPf8wajIrh which I've used for years. It's simply the best development experience on Windows 🚀🚀 I promote it to all our devs at work!

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@bhaidar Yep, been there done that! I use:

$endDate = (clone $date)->endOfMonth();

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@jclermont @phpstan I use Larastan, which is @phpstan with Laravel rules on level 9. The main problem is with 3rd party plugins and Laravel helper functions. E.g. a 'label' method expects a string, if I pass in a translation PhpStan thinks mixed is being passed in. Generics 🤷‍♂️

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@devagrawal09 Livewire: https://t.co/hX0OGZTzEp

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@nicoverbruggen Extra feature request: could it install Xdebug too?

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@peterbaeklund The best way to raise an issue with Laragon is using GitHub discussions: https://t.co/HDMEfKpOtG I normally try to help a few times per day.

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

Hopefully, you haven't been in a car accident in 20 years. Convince me that you don't need a seat belt and are happy to disable the airbags.

[Sebastian Schlein @seb_sebsn]

I haven't used strict types in php for 20 years. Convince me that I need them now.

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@AshAllenDesign I started using query() after watching @PovilasKorop video https://t.co/CQ5wfcPVih the main reason is readability, particularly for multi-line queries, as you wrote "..query constraints on to a new line and they all vertically align in the code" 👍

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@AshAllenDesign This goes to show how the Laravel ecosystem is continually evolving over the last year: Mix is now Vite and Mailhog has been replaced with Mailpit from Laravel 10. 🎉

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@derickr I live 10 miles away from the highest mountain in South Wales, Pen-y-Fan. It felt like a good pen name 😃

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

I wrote a blog to help PHP developers setup Xdebug in VS Code 1.5 years ago https://t.co/WXy9G4nCb9 I got to meet @derickr today at #phpuk23 ! Great talk on what's new in PHP 8.1 & 8.2

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@PHPUKConference I enjoyed and learnt a lot from @braddle Mark Bradley's TDD workshop at the @PHPUKConference 2023 yesterday. Clearly TDD takes the right mindset and practise. I hope to put it into my development workflow! #phpuk23

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

Has a regular listener of @pfwd Peter fisher's podcasts it was a pleasure to meet him today #phpuk23

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@enunomaduro @PHPUKConference 🙋🏻‍♂️can't wait 🎉

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@codewithdary My dev tools are:
- https://t.co/4lmEjJ6YmS - ECS or Pint
- https://t.co/IZEnbuzWdS - Static analysis
- https://t.co/0NBqhT5Pmx - linting
- https://t.co/zKSWSjGGj1 - helps auto-completion
- https://t.co/IkdSjw8Sqj
- https://t.co/AuC135jfTN - stops any commits not up to standard

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@pjkellar @aarondfrancis @LaraconEU I haven't seen anything, yet, subscribe to https://t.co/w7RSqpK5mW

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

My latest blog post: How to run cron jobs on Windows https://t.co/ORp3C0OLI2 #php

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@PovilasKorop I think @benpopper from @StackOverflow should look at these restrictions. Stopping genuine contributions will only lower the quality of content.

[Michael Pritchard (AKA Pen-y-Fan) @MikeAPritch]

@calebporzio I would go for

poll().seconds(5)

seconds(sec) { defaults.milliseconds = false; defaults.interval = sec; return this },