Generate an image of a stereotypical PHP developer That was a popular toot on Bluesky, by Justin Jackson. I thought it would be interesting to make it again, in 2026, so here we go. ChatGPT in 2024 The original image, below, was produced on ChatGPT. It is a cartoon, […]
Rebuilding Taipan! with an AI Pair Programmer in PHP Taipan! was one of the games that hooked me on computers. My brother and I would play it on the Apple ]
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Aug
Aug
Two Large PHP Datasets, and How to Read Them With Itself PHP has a large code base online. At Exakat, we run the engine on a corpus of 3000+ open source projects. If you want to train, fine-tune, or evaluate an AI model on PHP code, or just mine a few hundred thousand real-world snippets […]
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Aug
Aug
Convert a boolean into a string What could go wrong? I was recently spelunking through the Cornstack/nomic training dataset, the massive corpus of code that feeds some of our modern AI overlords, when I noticed something amusing. One of the queries in that dataset ask how to “convert a boolean to a string in PHP,” […]
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Jul
Jul
Using a vector database with PHP PHP has roughly 80 array functions: eight – zero. array_map, array_walk, array_reduce,array_filter, array_each… wait, that last one was deprecated and removed in PHP 7.2. Or not? And some new functions came up in PHP 8.5, last november. The real problem is discoverability. You know the task, “find the first […]
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Jun
Jun
PHP and AI: What Actually Exists at the Language Level PHP runs about three-quarters of the web, and yet whenever AI comes up in conversation, PHP is the friend who wasn’t invited to the party. The received wisdom is that AI belongs to Python and that PHP developers are limited to politely calling someone else’s […]