A great intro to micro.blog and how it fits more generally into the #indieweb ecosystem. But I had to laugh at Eli saying that since he discovered micro.blog he is now a full-time PHP developer. I have just spent all morning, literally, trying to improve the sandpit ii8n which I play with PHP, and have just about given up, utterly defeated. How anyone ever gets XDebug to work is completely beyond me. VSCode, Atom, even PHPStorm all require the most astonishing acrobatics which I have simply been unable to perform. Now what?
I'm 100% with you. PHP's tooling is...obtuse, at best. Generally speaking, I rely on PHP's inbuilt ability to throw errors/warnings/alerts to debug. I use a HEAP of exception try-catch blocks. In my (limited) experience with development work, I would say that the biggest hurdle to entry is often setting up a development environment.
Eli Mellen, Mar 15 2018 on eli.li