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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.

10 months 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.

11 months ago4 min read

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The future is passwordless

This talk introduces passkeys, a technology that brings a solution to all problems of passwords: their are unbelievably convenient to use, resistant to data breaches and phishing, and practically eliminate the possibility of human error. All this building upon open standards and existing APIs.

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30 Sep 2023

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