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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 month 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.

2 months ago4 min read

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What's new in PHP 8+

This talk shows all the new features of PHP 8, PHP 8.1 and the soo-to-be-released PHP 8.2, and discusses what's new in the ecosystem and funding of PHP's development. Most importantly, it argues why you should upgrade asap and keep upgrading often.

@ Talks & Beer

24 Nov 2022

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