Matthew Daly

OK, today's the last day of 2025, and while I'm not usually one for blogging specifically about things like this, I feel like this year it would be helpful to make an exception.

For some years now, I've been using Lando as my main development environment at work.

Late last year, at work they were looking for people to train up and get certified on working with Drupal so we could bid for jobs working with it.

Today I abandoned my most popular open source package, Laravel Azure Storage.

If you regularly read this blog, you may have noticed that I haven't posted much this year.

If your introduction to object-oriented PHP was anything like mine, inheritance was probably touted as one of the biggest advantages.

When modelling users in a hierarchical organization, it's common to need to retrieve the line manager or subordinates of a given user.

I'm sure you've heard some of the buzz about ChatGPT.

In September 2016, I started a new job after my previous employer went into liquidation.

I'm a big fan of callables in PHP in general.