This week, Symfony published maintenance versions 6.4.39, 7.4.11, and 8.0.11. In addition, we announced the second beta release of Symfony 8.1. Finally, we shared the schedule for the SymfonyOnline June 2026 conference and more details about SymfonyDay Montreal…
In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the answer, according to the Git history of the OpenClaw README, is: Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLAWDBOT → Clawdbot → Moltbot →🦞 OpenClaw Or in detail (the output from the tool): 2025-11-24T11:23:15+01:00 16dfc1a # Warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio)…
[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (“centering is impossible”) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what “centering” means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many…
The Flare team explains how they built end-to-end integration tests for their Laravel package using a real Testbench workbench app, HTTP server, and queue worker. The post also shows how they swapped the sender to write payloads to disk, then built helpers to assert traces, errors, and async job behavior. Read more
Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship a 0.1 release. You can see an example of the output in this JSON file. Tags: projects, inaturalist
Western Gull, Rock Pigeon, in Los Angeles Area (custom), CA, USI went for a bird walk in the morning before PyCon, and we spotted a local seagull enjoying a Starbucks.
Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan's distinction between software's flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It's a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and other real-world constraints still break the illusion of full automation. Read more
SymfonyDay Montreal 2026 is happening on June 4 at L'Espace Quartier Latin (UQAM). It's the perfect opportunity to sharpen your skills and meet the core team in Canada! 🎤 Speaker announcement! We are thrilled to host Robin Chalas, CEO & Co-Founder,…
Tool: QR code generator Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks. Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms
🎙️ PHP Podcast – May 14, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎙️ PHP Tek Is Four Days Away The countdown clock is basically ticking in real time — PHP Tek 2026 in Chicago is just four days and ten hours out […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.05.14 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0 This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of Datasette. Configuration looks something like this: plugins: datasette-llm-limits: limits: per-user-daily: scope: actor window: rolling-24h amount_usd: 1.00 Tags: llm, datasette
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2 Tool availability can now be attached to a required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the new datasette-agent-background permission. #10 Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technology company with a pair of legacy/legendary iPhone and Android apps. They told me they had just completed a coding-agent driven rewrite of both apps to React Native. I asked why they chose that, given that coding agents presumably drive down the cost of maintaining separate iPhone and Android apps.…
[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting! — Mitchell Hashimoto, on Bun porting from Zig to Rust Tags: zig, ai, mitchell-hashimoto, llms, rust,…
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a1 Now uses the execute-sql permission when deciding which tables to list to the user. #8 Tags: datasette, datasette-agent