Sebastian Bergmann :phpunit:✓
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Account age
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🧰 Free analysis for Sebastian Bergmann :phpunit:
📊 Post engagement
15
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: My favourite kind of bug fix: one that only adds a new regressio · 61 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.9 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
36×
Follows 55 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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RE: https://phpc.social/@sebastian/117007183050868222
I have been working on PHPUnit with high intensity recently. I cannot keep this up without more funding.
To everyone who already sponsors my Open Source work: thank you. Your support ma…
PHPUnit 13.3 will be released next Friday, August 7. It ships quite a few impactful improvements I have been working on over the past months.
The ChangeLog lists what's new, but my newsletter, sent right after the release, explains these c…
Answers to questions I am asked again and again about PHPUnit, test automation, code coverage, and testing in PHP:
https://phpunit.expert/faq.html?ref=mastodon
A security vulnerability in PHPCSUtils revealed an eval() call in a static analysis tool. Why disable_functions cannot reach eval(), and what a switch in the PHP engine to disable it could look like:
https://phpunit.expert/articles/when-st…
My favourite kind of bug fix only adds a new regression test and leaves every existing test untouched.
I checked this claim against PHPUnit's own history and learned the most from the counterexamples:
https://phpunit.expert/articles/untouc…
Looking forward to this one: on August 6, I'll be at the @engkiosk Rhine-Ruhr Meetup in Düsseldorf! 🎤
I'll be talking about "Turbo-Charging Your PHPUnit Suite", because slow tests destroy flow, and it doesn't have to be that way.
If you're…
RE: https://phpc.social/@sebastian/116882147948130910
Having just watched "Caramel", I think it's high time I added "The Bear" to my list of all-time favourite series. But ... do I need to update my article now?
2025 and 2026 proved to be a stress test for the supply chains of all package ecosystems.
A review of Composer and Packagist: what PHP does well, what it can learn, and who owns our infrastructure.
https://phpunit.expert/articles/composer-…
This week's piece is not a technical article but a personal essay about the TV series that fascinate me:
https://phpunit.expert/articles/stories-about-systems-that-resist-people.html?ref=mastodon
RE: https://phpc.social/@sebastian/116879224138213525
This toot should have been an article, and now it is. But it will have to wait its turn to be published.
Selecting exactly the tests you want, finer control over the order they run in, faster and clearer output when they fail, and more expressive test doubles.
I walk you through what is new in PHPUnit 13.2:
https://phpunit.expert/articles/pre…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
phpc.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 15 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.9× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Created PHPUnit. Co-Founded thePHPcc. Helps developers build better software.
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