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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

Should you commit your Composer lock file?

Should you commit your Composer lock file?

Davey Shafik wrote a great article for EngineYard called Composer: It’s All About the Lock File. The point of his article is to try and suggest people get a lot more used to committing their composer.lock files. Please, do go read his article now and for the love

PHP Wars: Attack of the Clones

In the last article I said I wanted to write about when its a good idea to release a component. A lot of this comes down to: is there one out there that does what I want, and if so, can I use it? This blog post is going to

What is The League of Extraordinary Packages?

This is the story of group of friends, who decided to write some code, but somehow confused and angered everyone with a keyboard. tl:dr; "Waaaaah why doesn't everyone like usssss..." That said, the long-form might entertain anyone who is curious about The League. It has

Anger and Guilt in Open-Source

In the tech industry far too many people pretend that everything is O.K. We pretend that sexism isn't rife. We pretend that startup failures are a "success" in some way. We ignore negative feedback and only publish success. We pretend that our work is amazing

I was an Extraordinary Alien... For a Week

The last seven months have been a weird time. I started off the year with the knowledge that the startup I worked for was running out of money. This was not huge in itself as most startups are defined by their time to live, or their "runway." It

The Neverending Muppet Debate of PHP 6 v PHP 7

Update 12/12/2014: The answer is now of course PHP 7. There are a few major, important conversations happening in the PHP internals mailing list as we speak: * The Facebook lot heading up a specification based off of PHP 5.6 * Should phpng be moved into master to be

The Pocket Guide to Sexism in Tech

Today I had somebody explain to me that they just didn't believe there was a problem with sexism in tech. They flat out said it is not a thing. I explained things I have seen and heard with my own eyes and ears in various jobs and events