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Loïc Faugeron
@loicfaugeron@phpc.social
mastodon 4.7.3My name's pronounced "Law-eek" (as in "coup-le o' week-s")
• 🧑💻️ I'm a Lead / Senior backend developer
• ⚧️ My pronouns are: he / his
• 🐘🎼 I write PHP and Symfony code
• 🐬🐘 I develop with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
• 🐧💻 I use Linux/Mac and the CLI
• 🧱🦿 I like LEGO and Bionicle
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63 Following
50 Posts
Joined January 20, 2026
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@grmpyprogrammer@yac.grumpy-learning.com the job market is brutal (went through this in 2025 and also 2024). It seems unfathomable to me that a legend like you got a handful of rejections, and got ghosted… what the heck
Congratulations on the offer, Inwish you well for the rest 🤘
#PHP & #Symfony in 2026: the stack worth a CTO’s attention
https://mustiere.fr/en/blog/php-symfony-2026-cto-perspective/
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@dantleech@fosstodon.org ~negotiations accidentally started~
you've found their super secret cheat code
Qalin, BisouLand's Test Control Interface, has 3 UIs: a CLI, API and Web.
And to my utter dismay, I kept reaching for the Web UI. I live in the terminal. Unacceptable.
Next week Fabien will announce a Component to build TUI apps, at SymfonyLive Paris.
I literally couldn't wait. So I built a TUI with PHP-TUI, a PHP port of Rust's Ratatui.
My geek honour is saved 😼. Check out the article detailing it here:
I saw @SecondeJ@phpc.social reply to a post with the following link ("Think of an Elephant" by Liam Hammett), and I couldn't agree more.
This is somewhat related to the "PHP lacks marketing" discussion: we need to carefully consider how we talk about PHP, to better promote it.
One of PHP biggest problem is lack of marketing, you say? Let's fix that.
Thames (the good dog in picture) proudly recommends PHP.
Woops. I just realised that in Rector, RuleSet::PHP_85 doesn't contain the previous versions (8.4, 8.3, etc).
So when a new PHP version comes, we add the RuleSet, but we don't remove the previous ones. got it. 🫡
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@dantleech@fosstodon.org legit concern, especially given the recent js, python etc supply chain attacks.
But it's what's being used for FrankenPHP, NativePHP, Laravel Herd, and Castor (JoliCode).
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@Synchro Vodafone has PAYG options, the cheapest one at £10. You HAVE to disable auto-renew during the registration process, so pay attention to all the options in the form.
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/sim-only/pay-as-you-go-sim
Not sure if you can register from France though, they do ask for a UK address (not sure what it is used for, because once the registration is completed, you get the eSIM via email).
They also require you to provide a "main" phone number, french ones are accepted.
I have a Form!
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I use a MacBook Pro M4 (got it as a freebee!), customised with AeroSpace, SketchyBar and skhd.
This allows me to have:
- Opt + 1: switch to Terminal
- Opt + 5: switch to Browser
- Opt + 6: switch to Slack
- Opt + 7: switch to Spotify
- Opt + d: switch to Discord
Switching workspace is instant (no animation), and if the app was closed it opens it
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@asgrim@phpc.social worth giving Wayland another chance, lots have changed since last year
Now I want raindrop ripples in my terminal.
Cube spinning when switching tmux sessions!
Wobbly tmux windows!!
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@dantleech@fosstodon.org I'll see if I can figure this out.
Heck, I might even try to go down The Elm Architecture way 😅
Let me translate to English @pockystar@bird.makeup 's Tweet Storm of the #Symfony_Live Paris 2026 for you.
Fabien's keynote: a new Symfony Terminal component, to build TUIs
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I use Slack as my notification center, the icon in the status bar shows:
- nothing: all good
- red dot: some messages, can check them later
- red number: direct mention, go check as ASAP as possible
I've integrated Google Calendar and Github with Slack, so I get direct mention when a meeting is about to start or a PR needs my review.
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I've just added a "Distribution / Upgrade" section, demonstrating how easy it is to use a package manager for your PHP bin, such as homebrew (mac and Linux).
https://gnugat.github.io/2026/03/25/turn-you-php-app-into-a-standalone-binary.html#distribution-%2F-upgrade
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I use zsh as my shell, with homemade config (no bloat like oh my zsh).
The autocomplete, autosuggestion and syntax highlighting are what I fancy the most about it.
With it I use starship for the prompt.
Great to see another big company using #PHP and #Symfony !
https://sensiolabs.com/success-stories/yuka-a-healthy-balanced-symfony-upgrade
Symfony's got a super secret mascot since 2025: the SymPony.
Why is there no official announcement introducing the cutie? 🦓
Here's a clip about it: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLaUvYHSClyeTCPaeLkuwIJ68Oh9QFydu?si=D3tF2towLesGuI68
And here's a picture of my SymPony
I’m on the hunt for good #Artemis clips to show with my daughters. Any favs to share?
Here are pictures of our LEGO SLS + Orion as payment (set 60228 from 2019)
Best clip we have is about the launch (with booster separation!): https://youtu.be/rKhtEkr127Y?is=-wL0mPsqCXI2iMsd
Would love to find more in space clips
TIL: one thing I was annoyed with phpactor was the spawning of find processes to index stuff.
Today I decided to do something about it! Originally I was thinking about swapping find for fd, so I looked at the docs.
Turns out there's a better option: find re-scans periodically for changed files even if nothing changed. But inotify (Linux) and fswatch (macOS) can be used instead, which is more efficient because they listen for OS notifications when the files actually changed!
When my 2 apps (monolith and Qalin) started needing the same domain objects, I had a choice: publish packages to Packagist, and feel the pain of having to update multiple repos to propagate a change...
Or pull up a 10 year old trick: monorepo.
2 apps, 10 packages, zero extra tooling. Composer path repositories handle it all out of the box!
I've written about how to set this up.
https://gnugat.github.io/2026/03/04/xl-11-monorepo.html
PHP CS Fixer can add declare(strict_types=1) to ALL PHP files in the project, but what if some of those rely on loose types?
RectorPHP (now) has you covered: it can add it only to files that are safe.
https://getrector.com/blog/introducing-safe-and-progressive-strict-type-adoption-rule
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@paulshryock@phpc.social having learned Python back in the 2000s, and learning Rust now, I all I can say is "yes".
Python is definitely easy to learn. there are some quirks though, and some PHP reflexes don't apply there (or so I'm being told, for example DIC).
I can't share any insight on Rust as I'm still learning it. But I really like its enums, match statements, and the Option (Some/None)
How do you test a feature that only triggers 3 days after registration? You could wait. Or hack the DB. Or hardcode a bypass.
Or... expose a dedicated internal API that presets your app into any state on demand, like they've done at Bumble.
I couldn't find an established name for this pattern, does one exist?
I've written about how to build one with modern #Symfony
Usable by devs, QA, designers and product alike, through a CLI, API and web UI. Even in PHPUnit tests!
https://gnugat.github.io/2026/02/25/xl-10-qalin-test-control-interface-with-symfony.html
Static PHP binary for PIE! Amazing 😻
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@dantleech@fosstodon.org so I'm slowly finding my footing.
I've got a concept of "Screens" and "Layouts". I've seen that Widgets are all about the "rendering", but somehow lacking the behaviour side.
For example: I've created a HotkeyTabsWidget: tabs that can be switched by pressing the corresponding hotkey. I suppose a corresponding HotkeyTabsComponent would manage the behaviour?
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I make heavy use of "terminal tabs" in my workflow, but I don't get that from the terminal app, I get it instead from tmux.
When I start working on a project I use my rt-new-session.sh script. It starts a tmux session with the project name, jumps in the project directory (using zoxide), and creates three windows named vim, ai and zsh.
- Ctrl + Space + 1: switch to IDE (vim)
- Ctrl + Space + 2: switch to coding agent
- Ctrl + Space + 3: switch to shell
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@Girgias@phpc.social do you mean that if people are using static analysis, then they don't need strict_types;
and if they aren't using static analysis, they also don't need strict_types?
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@ghostwriter@phpc.social I didn't know it reached composer. thanks for spreading the word!
Symfony TUI component MERGED! 🎉
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/63778#discussion_r3104843460
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@asgrim@phpc.social nice! And I 100% agree.
I’ve configure git lg to also display the date and authors: https://github.com/gnugat/dotfiles/blob/93ad73ef828d3bc29e97325768e5f465dc9bfd9c/201-git/config/config#L38
In terms of merging strategy, I’m also a big fan of rebasing before merge, so the graph doesn’t look tangled. This is at the cost of losing the true dates, but makes it easier to read a merged branch history
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@asgrim@phpc.social I just realised you also advocates for rebase in your article, I somehow missed that part :s
Also for the curious, here's what git lg look like
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@freekmurze@phpc.social if you manage to give AeroSpace another try, maybe my config could be of interest.
In combination with SketchyBar and skhd, I've set my environment to use 1 workspace per app (1: terminal, 2: dev adjacent e.g. orbstack, etc, 4: test adjacent; 5: chrome 6: slack, 7: spotify and now d: discord).
I use opt + digit to switch to the appropriate space.
I have one external screen (in addition to the laptop's), and I haven't had any issues
https://github.com/gnugat/dotfiles/blob/main/501-aerospace/config/aerospace.toml
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I use Alacritty as my terminal (because it uses dotfiles for config, and works on both Linux / Mac).
I also like that window decorations can be removed (I use one maximised window per workspace, so those are useless to me)
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@dantleech@fosstodon.org for the record I use phpactor with vim and I’m very happy with it.
I have no idea why people feel entitled to complain about a solution that’s been created and maintained by a single individual for a decade.
There are new shiny alternatives, but IMHO they are as much someone’s pet project as phpactor, with no guarantee they’ll be maintained to the extent phpactor has been
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@lordsimal@phpc.social we're using JetBrains YouTrack at work, and I find it okay.
I've also heard a lot of good feedback about linear, but I haven't tried it yet.
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@sculpin@phpc.social I'm so glad to see this is happening. I've been wondering if I should switch to hugo or something, but seeing the project maintained again is great!
I'm happy to be a beta tester if you need that :)
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I use Chrome as my browser, with vertical tabs which I think were made available in April 2026.
It took me two weeks to get used to it (and my eyes still go top right when opening a tab instead of bottom left).
Vertical tabs have more readable titles, no matter how many are open. They can be collapsed to icon size to save some space. And I search through them using Cmd + Shift + A.
They've also made Grouped Tabs useful again for me!
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For 10 years since 2014, I've been using cd, ls / tree, cat / less, ack, find.
In 2025 I've decided to upgrade: zoxide, eza, bat, rg and fd.
I'm also heavily using fzf to fuzzy find and preview basically anywhere: vim, shell history and filesystem.
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I have two other tmux scripts:
- rt-list-sessions: used to display the sessions in my tmux status bar (index: name)
- rt-switch-session: used to switch to a session by its index
- Ctrl + Space + s + index: switch to session
Can you tell I love keybindings?
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The way I see it, there are 3 methods that can be used:
- email (requires a provider like Brevo to send emails)
- oauth (Google, GitHub, Discord, Mastodon?)
- passkeys (computer finger print, Face ID on phone)
Ideally I’d implement as many choices for the user, but I’m not too keen on email. The thing I’m wondering about is what would be a user’s expectation when they are asked to sign up?