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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · 3d ago

My DeepCopy package should cross 1 billion downloads in ~ 6 months 💃 https://github.com/myclabs/DeepCopy

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Aug 06, 2026

Replying to @denniskoch@phpc.social

@denniskoch@phpc.social it's before there's even a PR, it's a pre-review with yourself. Also going through a PR is slower than iterating locally.

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Aug 05, 2026

Introducing Prereview for @phpstorm

Review local changes:

human review: add inline comments like on GitHub
AI review: Codex + Claude Code review Then copy as prompt for your agent

https://github.com/mnapoli/phpstorm-prereview

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 31, 2026

Got secrets in local .env? Afraid of a compromised dependency or agent reading your filesystem?

I built dotlock:

store secrets encrypted in .env.secrets
decrypted on the fly via php artisan dev

https://github.com/mnapoli/dotlock

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 27, 2026

If this benchmark is to be trusted, current frontier is:

grok 4.5 (high): cheap + fast
opus 5 (medium): best
fable 5 (high): if you're feeling fancy and forget the rest.

Now time to see if Opus 5 is really that good. Source: https://cognition.com/frontiercode

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 20, 2026

Replying to @OndrejMirtes@phpc.social

@OndrejMirtes@phpc.social first time didn’t work (I made it too broad), second time I focused on one project that exactly met the criterias. Not sure if that made a difference

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026

yessss

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

I cannot express how shocked I am by how perfect it worked. (note: in this case I don't review the code)

My conclusions so far:

use Fable for important tasks/features that you don't want to mess up (i.e. it's worth the cost)
- that could be implementation if it's really important/risky
- or just the plan
Fable is also great at orchestrating big features using cheaper sub-agents (so don't think large task = lots of Fable tokens, Fable is really good at exploiting sub-agents)

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

Personal software: we've heard about the death of SaaS and software. It's mostly bullshit. But Fable built me 2 personal apps in one-shot, one very

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

complex (alternative to a $300 niche panorama software with heavy image processing), ZERO bugs (even though it builds a 1.2 GB image), handles not only the happy path but all the rest too (the software was perfect and did 100% of the job, better usability than competitors I tried), and orchestrated all the build and run, including using sub-agents for optimizing costs building it. One chat message for this.

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 08, 2026

I tried Fable extensively, I am blown away. Daily tasks are handled well, better than Opus but nothing too crazy. Complex tasks, risky features, etc -> Fable is insanely good. It codes better than me, it is

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

smarter than me, there is no question. I review every single line of code and it handles edge cases and scenarios I wouldn't even think of. My main value becomes judgment/opinions (architecture, naming, experience) and ownership of the code (long term vision, consistency, etc.), as well ofc as understanding the product and the users (shifting towards "product engineer").

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 07, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

Storing files publicly on S3 (e.g. avatars): add publicPath: public and every file in the public/ subdirectory will be public. The rest stays private.

Docs for Laravel: https://bref.sh/docs/laravel/file-storage#public-files

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 07, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

Zero-downtime deploys can be enabled by adding versionedAssets: true This is enabled by default when setting up Bref in new Laravel apps.

Docs: https://bref.sh/docs/use-cases/websites

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 07, 2026

3 nice Bref updates:

zero-downtime deploys for website assets
public storage on S3 made simple
osls 4.0: resolved deprecations, hardened, supports SSO

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jul 06, 2026

Best job in the world… I hope the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Jun 29, 2026

Replying to @tylerlwsmith@hachyderm.io

@tylerlwsmith@hachyderm.io @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io thank you, can't wait to get PHP into museums!

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Apr 02, 2026

with all the supply chain attacks, I'm pushing code to GitHub the secure way

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @mnapoli@phpc.social

This is built on Tauri, so super lightweight and fast to open. (and don't @ me about vim or whatever terminal editor, I'm not _that_ old 😂)

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Mar 26, 2026

If you're getting old like me, writing long prompts in a terminal is annoying: can't use the mouse, select text, use normal shortcuts… I built a native Claude Code prompt editor: hit Ctrl+G, edit the prompt in an overlay window and hit save https://github.com/mnapoli/PromptEdit

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Feb 26, 2026

Bref 3 is released 🎉

Since its creation, Bref has served 1.2 trillion requests and jobs!

▸ simpler & lighter runtimes
▸ PHP 8.5
▸ improved observability (logs & tracing)
▸ simpler Laravel onboarding
▸ postgres & redis built-in
and more ⤵
https://bref.sh/news/03-bref-3.0

Bref

Bref 3.0 is released 🎉 – Bref

Bref 3.0 is released and reaches 40 billion invocations every month.

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Matthieu Napoli @mnapoli@phpc.social · Feb 23, 2026

Improved Bref docs on a quick win: cleanup the AWS SDK before deployment https://bref.sh/docs/deploy#reducing-package-size (btw could also be useful if you deploy your app on a server)