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Hello, I am Jiří Pudil

I am a full-stack web developer from Brno, Czech Republic. I contribute to open-source projects, write a technical blog, and speak at meetups and conferences.

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The case for contravariant template types

PHPStan has only supported invariant and covariant template types because they are so prevalent in real-world applications. But contravariant template types also have their use cases, and the latest release of PHPStan adds support for them, among other small improvements to generics.

1 year ago6 min read

The true power of sealed classes

In my recent post, I've introduced a PHPStan extension that brings support for sealed classes and interfaces to statically analyzed PHP. Looking back, I feel I haven't stressed the main benefit enough, so here I am doing it justice.

1 year ago4 min read

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Naja 3.0

The web platform is ever-evolving. In this talk, I discuss what that has meant for Naja in the recent years, which new features led to a new major release, and what backwards incompatible changes you should be aware of when upgrading. And by the end of the talk, I had released Naja 3.0 into the wild.

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24 Feb 2024

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