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With PHP's recent focus on stricter type handling comes some new terminology that might be intimidating to some and confusing to others.

Two new terms, "contravariant parameters" and "covariant returns", describe how derived classes and interface implementations can widen and narrow the declared types of their parent interface or class.

Back in the code-slinging, devil-may-care olden days of PHP (up to version 4), we didn't have to worry about this stuff, because the language's loosey-goosey typing "solved" it for us. We could come up with any horrendously tangled mess we wanted to.

But now, PHP is growing up. It has Opinions™. And those opinions mean that more care needs to be taken when smashing rocks together to craft our classes.

The new Whateverthing is here!

I've redesigned the site in TailwindCSS and I'm very happy with how it came out. The previous design, based on Foundation 3, was alright, but it's been increasingly hard to find docs for Foundation 3 since it was becoming so ancient.

CascadiaPHP is an amazing conference in Portland, Oregon hosted at University Place Conference Center. I attended 2019's edition and it was full of great content and fantastic speakers.

This is the conclusion of a three-part series about the conference.

CascadiaPHP is an amazing conference in Portland, Oregon hosted at University Place Conference Center. I attended 2019's edition and it was full of great content and fantastic speakers.

This is the second of a three-part series about the conference.