So long and thanks for all the fish 👋🐟 I am no longer active on Twitter. You can find me over at BlueSky @simonrjones.bsky.social and Mastodon @simonrjones@mastodon.social or via the real world!

Congrats to the PHP team on the new release! 👏 I like the new release pages - makes it a lot easier to understand the big changes

We’re looking for a PHP Developer (mid-level) to join a supportive team at @studio24 (£35-£44K)👩‍💻 #RemoteJob The role is focussed on PHP development, using Laravel and Symfony, and building on top of CMSs such as WordPress and Craft. Find out more at

#RemoteJob PHP Developer (mid-level) at @studio24 (£35-£44K)👩‍💻 We’re looking for someone to develop accessible, human-centred websites with a focus on PHP development, Laravel, Symfony, Craft CMS and WordPress - find out more at

#RemoteJob Web Developer (junior to mid-level) at @studio24 (£26-£44K)👩‍💻 We’re looking for someone to develop accessible, human-centred websites with a focus on front-end development, Craft CMS, WordPress, JavaScript and a little PHP - find out more at

A brilliant and important talk by @Mark_Baker on life lessons in software development including an important focus on mental health and taking care of yourself. The video will be posted in the next few days.

Tonight we have @Mark_Baker talking to us about the human side of working in open source. An Elderly Software Developer’s Long Journey through Technology

We’re happy to welcome @Mark_Baker to talk to us on Tuesday https://t.co/i1rJOYWukf Mark will talk to us about his experience working in open source over the past 35 years. This promises to be a really interesting talk about the human side of software development & open source!

Really looking forward to Mark’s talk this Tuesday eve, please do sign up and come along!

.@liamcrilly is taking about Nginx Unit at tonight’s PHP Cambridge

Tonight, 7pm, we have @liamcrilly talking about Simplify Your Application Stack with NGINX Unit https://t.co/vv4o3cbTp2 - see you there :)

Join us at our next 2 events: Tues 20 Sept, Simplify Your Application Stack with NGINX Unit with Liam Crilly. Sign up at https://t.co/vv4o3cblzu Tues 18 Oct - An Elderly Software Developer’s Long Journey through Technology with Mark Baker. Sign up at https://t.co/i1rJOYVWuH #php

Next @phpcambridge events: Tues 20 Sept - Simplify Your Application Stack with NGINX Unit with @liamcrilly https://t.co/vv4o3cblzu Tues 18 Oct - An Elderly Software Developer's Long Journey through Technology with @Mark_Baker https://t.co/i1rJOYVWuH

Due to the heatwave in the UK and Europe we’ve decided to postpone this week’s event “An Elderly Software Developer’s Long Journey through Technology” with @Mark_Baker and run it later in the year. We’ll confirm the new date soon. Stay cool everyone :)

We have @Mark_Baker talking to us on Tues 19 July about his reflections on a life as an open source PHP developer, should be a fascinating and thought provoking session! Please join us at

We have @Mark_Baker talking to us on Tues 19 July about his reflections on a life as an open source PHP developer, should be a fascinating and thought provoking session! Please do join us at

@FedericoRazzol1 Federico wrote a book on MariaDB:

About to start a talk on advanced MariaDB features with @FedericoRazzol1

And we have @liamcrilly talking in September about NGINX Unit and how it can help you build efficient (and simpler) web applications. Find out more & sign up at

We also have @Mark_Baker in July talking about his journey as a developer and what he’s learnt, covering so-called soft skills (they are the hard ones!), work/life balance, ethics and more. Should be a really interesting one! More details & sign up at