🚀 Veille Tech – Semaine 34
on August 21, 2025
Each week, I share a selection of resources and new developments that have struck me in the tech ecosystem. Here's what caught my attention for week 34.
🔑 Understanding OAuth Flows
Helary Guzje provides an excellent explanation of the different OAuth flows and their use cases. A useful reminder for choosing the right approach depending on the context (web app, mobile, machine-to-machine API), and avoiding common pitfalls related to authentication and security. 👉 Read the article
⚡ PHPStreamServer
PHPStreamServer is a high-performance PHP application server, written in PHP itself. An interesting alternative to traditional FPM and Swoole, once again demonstrating the vitality of the PHP server-side ecosystem.
💻 Jan – an offline alternative to ChatGPT
Jan is an open-source alternative to ChatGPT, designed to run entirely locally. A promising solution for those who want to benefit from AI assistants without relying on the cloud or sacrificing data privacy.
🌀 PHP 8.5 – Improved Clone
The "clone with" RFC has been integrated into PHP 8.5. It allows you to clone objects while modifying certain properties in the process, with support for hooks, readonly, and __clone(). This small addition simplifies developers' lives and improves the language's usability.
👉 See the RFC
🎨 Filament v4
The stable version of Filament v4 has been released, bringing simplification and efficiency to Laravel developers. The tool is further maturing to quickly build elegant admin interfaces and back offices.
🔒 PHP 8.5 – Asymmetric Visibility for Static Properties
PHP 8.5 introduces asymmetric visibility for static properties, a feature that already exists for instance properties. This small improvement strengthens the language's consistency and provides more granularity in visibility management. 👉 Read the article
🤖 Inspector MCP Server
Valerio Barbera presents the Inspector MCP Server, a building block that directly connects AI agents (Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, etc.) to production data. This integration allows assistants to suggest optimizations based not only on code, but also on telemetry and real-world errors in production. A major step forward in AI-enhanced development, designed for the PHP ecosystem. 👉 GitHub Repo
📚 Functional Programming in 40 Minutes
In his talk at GOTO 2024, Russ Olsen (author of Getting Clojure and Eloquent Ruby) demystifies functional programming. He shows how the concepts of purity, immutability, and higher-order functions simplify development and help manage complexity. An inspiring resource for understanding how functional programming integrates equally well into dedicated languages and traditional object-oriented environments.
👉 That's it for week 34! And you, which resource impressed you the most?