Marked Logs and Monolog Channels
March 8th, 2023
A look at cspray/marked-logs and Monolog channels and how these 2 libraries can work with one another.
Introducing database-test-case
March 2nd, 2023
An overview of a library I've created, designed for testing database interactions in your PHP apps.
I got scammed: A Postmortem
February 9th, 2023
On 2023-02-08 I got hit by a scammer. This blog post talks about the things I did wrong and what I can do to ensure future attacks aren't successful.
Annotated Container, Why Attributes?
August 20th, 2022
Talks about some reasons Annotated Container uses Attributes to configure dependency injection.
Introducing AnnotatedContainer - Part 3
August 13th, 2022
A wrap-up of my time spent creating Annotated Container.
Introducing Annotated Container - Part 2
June 30th, 2022
Part 2 of a 3-part series introducing a dependency injection framework named Annotated Container. In this article, I go into detail how to solve three common problems working with Annotated Container; dealing with multiple aliases, injecting non-object values, and integrating with third-party services that can't be annotated.
Introducing Annotated Container - Part 1
June 1st, 2022
Part 1 of a 3-part series introducing a dependency injection framework powered by PHP 8 Attributes. This article provides some motivations behind the library and basic usage.
My Next Adventure
May 16th, 2022
An amazing thing happened in my career, and I'm excited to tell you about it!
Thoughts on HBO Max
June 19th, 2021
Recently social media has been talking about an HBO Max intern that sent an integration testing email to their production mailing list. The focus of a lot of this attention has been on the intern themselves. However, we should be placing more scrutiny on HBO's reaction to this problem.
Customize Symfony Namespaces
June 16th, 2021
While reviewing popular PHP frameworks I ran into some problems customizing the default App namespace commonly used in project scaffolding. This article talks about how to customize the namespace for a Symfony app to ensure expected functionality in a new setup still works.
Embracing Polywork
June 13th, 2021
I recently got invited to Polywork, a new take on a professional social network. In this article I talk about why I really like Polywork and some of the reasons I think it is better than LinkedIn.
Introducing AsyncUnit
May 26th, 2021
I ran into some problems creating an integration test in an Amp powered application that needed to establish a connection to a database. Not finding a suitable solution with PHPUnit or existing testing frameworks I started writing my own with first-class support for asynchronous PHP.
A General Update
May 23rd, 2021
2020 was an absolutely crazy, awful year. Unfortunately it followed up what was the worst year of my life in 2019. In this article I talk about my experiences with the pandemic and why my blog has been quiet.
Getting back a lost domain
May 2nd, 2020
My original blog was hosted on cspray.net. Unfortunately, I made a beginner mistake and forgot to renew my website. I thought it was lost forever but eventually I was able to get it back.
The true and false value
August 26th, 2019
In a deployment to our production application we discovered a long-standing bug that had only just now decided to show itself. Tracking down what was wrong I discovered a value that was simultaneously being treated as true and false!
The Bedpan
March 10th, 2019
My mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer and became bed-ridden. I cared for her while she died a painful, degrading death. In this article I talk about something I take for granted but can be taken from you…using the bathroom.
Fighting against surveillance capitalism
February 17th, 2019
I've grown weary of having my entire online existence under surveillance so companies can attempt to squeeze as much revenue out of me as possible. In this revenue I talk about the problem and what I think we can do to help fix it.
Asynchronous testing with amphp and PHPUnit
February 9th, 2019
While writing unit tests for Amp I discovered a way PHPUnit could be modified to reduce amount of boilerplate. This article talks about contributions I made to the amphp-phpunit-util wrapper to make testing with Amp a lot easier!
Hi!
My name is Charles Sprayberry. I've been making confused expressions while writing code for the past 10 years. Sometimes I get paid while doing it, other times I do it for free. Occasionally, I get the urge to ramble about the things I've done with code and this website is a collection of those ramblings. My professional and personal focus is currently on PHP, but I have written applications in many other shitty languages. When I'm not writing code or stroking my glorious beard I like to spend time with my wife, play with my dog, shitpost on Twitter, and other things I'm not gonna tell you about.
My OSS Projects
Annotated Container
A dependency injection framework allowing you to configure a PSR-11 Container using a powerful set of PHP 8 Attributes! Bring your dependency injection configuration closer to your code.
Phinal
I'm a firm believer in the final construct. It helps ensure that users of your library or application don't resort to inheritance as a first-step measure. To ensure that I'm encouraging composition I created a Psalm plugin to let me know if I have classes not marked final.
Labrador Kennel
A suite of opinionated libraries and frameworks with the intent of easily building production-ready applications on top of Amp. Provides a foundation for wiring your dependency graph, configuring your app settings, emitting semantic events, creating reusable Plugins, and other utilities when creating async applications. Frameworks built on top of that foundation enable building feature-rich HTTP and CLI applications.
HTTP CORs
Building a modern web app you've undoubtedly had to deal with Cross Origin Requests. This library aims to make dealing with these type of requests for Amp http-server applications easy to deal with. Providing an array-based configuration and an object-oriented, fluent API for defining CORs makes this library flexible enough to work with however you prefer to handle this concern.