PHP Internals News: Episode 20: Test Infrastructure Improvements
In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub) about improvements he and others have made to test PHP on many more platforms and in many more configurations.
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Life Line
I walked 3.5km in 35m31s
Created a main entrance and a home entrance
Created an entrance
Updated a house building
Created an entrance
I walked 5.8km in 1h15m06s
I've just finished reading "A Cheese-Monger's Tour de France", by Ned Palmer.
Now I want to try many of those! 🧀
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the 23rd edition of #phpday, the international PHP conference in Italy, organised by @grusp.
I’ll be presenting a talk titled: "Better Debugging With Xdebug".
It's in Verona, Italy, on May 14-15th 2026.
You can use my speaker’s discount code "speaker_10OFF" for 10% off at https://www.phpday.it/tickets/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=post-speaker
I walked 5.5km in 1h11m00s
I walked 1.1km in 9m37s
Merged pull request #1066
PHP 8.6: Changes to opcache optimisations wrt function arguments
I walked 10.5km in 1h49m54s
Fixed building type
Fixed addresses and building type
Updated a bus_stop, a waste_basket, and a bench
Created 2 waste_baskets; Updated 2 bus_stops and a crossing; Confirmed a dry_cleaning shop
I walked 8.5km in 1h29m59s
Merge branch 'v2022'
Update data to 2026a
I walked 5.6km in 1h8m16s
I walked 9.5km in 2h15m36s
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!
Updated a restaurant



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