I'm JΓ©rΓ΄me Gamez, a platform and backend engineer with 20+ years of experience. I build elvah during the day and Open Source Software at night.
I'm a Jack of all trades with a soft spot for PHP, legacy software and, of course, Open Source software.
My hobby is my job and vice versa. My mission is to make the work of all developers (myself included) more productive and enjoyable. I have a special affinity for code quality, stability, and legacy software, and consider no code base to be unmaintainable πͺπ».
My most prolific project is the (unofficial) Firebase Admin SDK for PHP and its related libraries, which are downloaded 500K+ times a month, but I also publish and maintain many more Open Source projects in the BESTE, kreait, and my personal GitHub organizations.
- beste/firebase-bundle - A Symfony Bundle for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK (3 days ago)
- beste/firebase-php - Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP (1 week ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php - Cookiecutter template for new PHP projects. (3 weeks ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-test - A library that does awesome things (3 weeks ago)
- beste/laravel-firebase - A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK (3 weeks ago)
- laravel-notification-channels/fcm - Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notifications channel for Laravel (3 weeks ago)
- jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer - Symfony Normalizer and Denormalizer for ramsey/uuid (1 month ago)
- beste/firebase-tokens-php - A PHP library to work with Firebase tokens (1 month ago)
- beste/latlon-geohash-php - π Gustavo Niemeyer's geocoding system (1 month ago)
- beste/clock - β± A collection of Clock implementations. (1 month ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-test - A library that does awesome things
- jeromegamez/valinor-troubleshooting -
- jeromegamez/pinboard-for-newsblur - Fixing pinboard.in keywords to be displayed correctly in NewsBlur
- jeromegamez/dotfiles - My dotfiles, managed with https://chezmoi.io.
- jeromegamez/issue-template-tests - A repo to test how issue templates look like before using them elsewhere
- jeromegamez/clock-poc - Proof of concept for the proposed clock PSR
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php - Cookiecutter template for new PHP projects.
- jeromegamez/php-library-template - This project has been replaced by https://github.com/jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-project
- jeromegamez/.github -
- jeromegamez/duration-php - Working with durations made easy
- beste/firebase-bundle (6.1.0, 3 days ago) - A Symfony Bundle for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
- coollabsio/coolify (v4.0.0-beta.468, 5 days ago) - An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
- googleapis/google-cloud-php (v0.322.0, 1 week ago) - Google Cloud Client Library for PHP
- beste/firebase-php (8.2.0, 1 week ago) - Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP
- beste/laravel-firebase (7.0.0, 3 weeks ago) - A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
- jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer (3.3.0, 1 month ago) - Symfony Normalizer and Denormalizer for ramsey/uuid
- beste/latlon-geohash-php (1.5.0, 1 month ago) - π Gustavo Niemeyer's geocoding system
- laravel-notification-channels/fcm (6.0.0, 4 months ago) - Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notifications channel for Laravel
- beste/in-memory-cache-php (1.4.0, 5 months ago) - A PSR-6 In-Memory cache that can be used as a fallback implementation and/or in tests.
- beste/json (1.7.0, 6 months ago) - A simple JSON helper to decode and encode JSON
- Add App Check replay protection with transitional contract on beste/firebase-php (2 weeks ago)
- Add support for
kreait/laravel-firebase7.x and PHP 8.5 on laravel-notification-channels/fcm (3 weeks ago) - Support Firebase SDK 8.x and PHP 8.3+ on beste/firebase-bundle (1 month ago)
- Add support for Symfony 8 on jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer (1 month ago)
- Isolate grpc tests on beste/firebase-php (1 month ago)
- Update link to the unofficial PHP Admin SDK on firebase/firebaseopensource.com (1 month ago)
- Add support for
firebase/php-jwt:^7.0.2on beste/firebase-php (1 month ago) - feat: Add
NegatedInstanceofWithParenthesesFixeron PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer (2 months ago) - Add
ParenthesizeNegatedInstanceofRectoron rectorphp/rector-src (2 months ago) - Fix
firebase-toolsinstallation on beste/firebase-php (3 months ago)
- simonw/rodney - CLI tool for interacting with the web (3 days ago)
- stonerl/Thaw - Menu bar manager for macOS 26 (3 days ago)
- bobeff/open-source-games - A list of open source games. (3 days ago)
- tuanchauict/MonoSketch - An ASCII graph drawing app (3 days ago)
- knadh/oat - Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library. ~8KB min+gz. (3 days ago)
- kepano/defuddle - Get the main content of any page as Markdown. (3 days ago)
- git-pkgs/forge - Go library and CLI for working with git forges. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, and Bitbucket Cloud through a single interface. (4 days ago)
- git-pkgs/proxy - A caching proxy for package registries. (5 days ago)
- johnnydecimal/johnnydecimal-skills - SKILLS files for your favourite LLM. (1 week ago)
- simonw/showboat - Create executable documents that demonstrate an agent's work (1 week ago)
If you use one of my projects, I'd love to hear from you. Let me know what you like and what needs being improved. And if you're a happy user of one or many of my projects, please consider becoming a GitHub Sponsor!
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