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PHP 8.6’s soft feature freeze: what just locked in, and what’s still up for grabs

PHP 8.6’s soft feature freeze: what just locked in, and what’s still up for grabs

Beta 1 for PHP 8.6 landed this week, and buried inside that routine-sounding milestone is the moment PHP’s next release mostly stops accepting new ideas. Not completely. But close enough that if you’ve been half-watching an RFC thread, wondering whether it would survive to actually ship, this is the week you find out. If […] The post PHP 8.6’s soft feature freeze: what just locked in, and what’s still up for grabs appeared first on PHP Architect.

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PHP and Composer Support Is Now in Beta

PHP and Composer Support Is Now in Beta

Today, Socket’s PHP and Composer support is moving from Experimental to Beta and is now enabled for all customers. PHP reachability analysis is also generally available, helping teams determine which vulnerabilities in their dependencies can be reached from their application code. We introduced PHP and Composer support earlier this year with package search, dependency scanning, SBOM generation, CVE detection, and AI-powered analysis for Packagist packages. Moving to Beta makes that protection…

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llm 0.32.1

llm 0.32.1

Release: llm 0.32.1 Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of httpx, and it turned out LLM depended on that library but only installed it via a transitive openai dependency. This dot-release fixes that for the moment by pinning to openai<3, and a soon-to-drop 0.33 release will switch from httpx to httpx2. Tags: httpx, openai, llm

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llm-openrouter 0.7

llm-openrouter 0.7

Release: llm-openrouter 0.7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.32 it can display the reasoning traces for LLMs available through OpenRouter. Updated for compatibility with LLM 0.32. Models now use OpenRouter's implementation of the Responses API. Three new server-side tools: Shell, WebFetch, and WebSearch. Enable these with options like -T WebSearch. Tags: llm, openrouter

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Stop Making TUIs

Stop Making TUIs

Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March, and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis. I'm not habitually knocking out real UIs for my other projects yet, but I'm running out of excuses! Thomas: If you haven’t…

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The Agent-Era Career

The Agent-Era Career

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. If the AI layer gets good at anything, it will be anything that has an answer key. School used to be answer keys all the way down. School is the ultimate anchoring of success, because it’s […]

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Quoting Matt Webb

Quoting Matt Webb

After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mathematician friends – I learnt how to use quaternions just enough to make the app work. So learning doesn’t stop just because I outsource a bunch of thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more. I like that as an outcome.…

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ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale

ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale

ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT. The Promptwatch product uses automation to track responses to prompts across end-user chat products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. They publish aggregate reports on this as part of their own content…

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The PHP Podcast 2026.08.20

The PHP Podcast 2026.08.20

🎙️ PHP Podcast – August 20, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Shirley MacLaine is the answer — but what’s the question? RAM prices went up 500%, GitHub fell over for eight hours, and the crew figured out how you can actually contribute to PHP. Glasses optional. 🎬 Shirley MacLaine, Green Room […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.08.20 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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