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A security researcher reverse-engineers ionCube's commercial PHP encoder/loader using Binary Ninja on aarch64 Linux, working toward a source-recovering unpacker.

An open-source, zero-dependency SQLite debugging tool that tracks database changes and allows instant rewinding to any previous state via snapshots, a web UI, and a CLI watcher daemon.

This article explains that modern regex engines like PCRE can parse far more than regular languages, debunking the common claim that HTML cannot be parsed with regex.

PHP and Lua's log function can produce non-monotonic results due to using different algorithms for base 10 (log10) and other bases (ln), leading to counterintuitive behavior where a larger base yields a larger logarithm.

Qbix Server is a pure PHP web server that handles 10x more concurrent PHP requests on the same hardware compared to Nginx+PHP-fpm by forking workers after loading classes to share memory via copy-on-write, reducing per-worker memory from 30-60MB to ~5MB.

A proof-of-concept implementation of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in pure PHP without persistent connections, demonstrating feasibility.

Yann LeCun defends open source by listing major projects like Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PyTorch, questioning the idea that releasing them was 'dumping'.

A developer used AI to build a PHP engine in Rust, passing 17% of PHP's official test suite and rendering WordPress, despite having no prior Rust or compiler experience.

A rare bug in PHP's DateTimeImmutable caused off-by-one-day errors for February of year 0; the fix is to use alternative timestamp conversion methods.

A developer reflects on PHP's oddities after five years of use, focusing on the quirks of its array implementation and type system.

Phel v0.36.0 is released, bringing a numeric tower and first-class Vars to the Lisp-inspired functional language that compiles to PHP.

The PHP project is voting to replace its current dual-license structure with the BSD three-clause license to simplify its legal framework.

TypePHP is a native Ahead-Of-Time compiler for PHP that translates PHP source code into C++ and then into native machine code, enabling faster execution and interoperability with PHP's runtime.