PHP Internals News: Episode 15: base_convert() Improvements
In this fifteenth episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Scott Dutton (Twitter, GitHub) about his base_convert() Improvements RFC.
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Life Line
Sigh, the AI Slop has now come for the PHP project.
I had this little Black-capped Chickadee eating out of my hand earlier on a lovely 8k walk with @dseguy and @DaveLiddament in the snow at the back end of @ConFooCa .
Thanks Canada!
#confoo #confoo2026 #BirdPhotogaphy #BirdsOfMastodon
Updated a restaurant
Created a ticket shop, a bench, and a toilet
Created a picnic_table; Updated a viewpoint
Updated a shelter
I hiked 9.3km in 3h12m03s
Updated 3 restaurants
I walked 3.1km in 29m25s
I walked 4.4km in 45m01s
I walked 5.4km in 55m28s
Updated a restaurant; Confirmed a hotel
I walked 6.3km in 1h12m59s
Paraphrasing opening keynote speaker at ConFoo: "Should we go back to the waterfall method of writing massive specs upfront to feed to AI coding agents?"
I walked 1.6km in 17m29s
I walked 2.1km in 17m44s
Updated a pub
I walked 2.6km in 26m41s
Merged pull request #1065
Comparison whether class is userland or internal used the wrong macro
PHP 8.6: zend_enum.h now mixes code with declarations
PHP 8.6: Argument names are now stored as zend_strings
Updated a bench and a waste_basket
I walked 8.3km in 1h25m37s
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