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Welcome to Daniel Scherzer's personal website. I am a software engineer with experience working in PHP, JavaScript, Python, C, and other languages.

I completed my undergraduate education at Tufts University, double majoring in Computer Science and Political Science and graduating magna cum laude in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science degree. As part of my work in Computer Science, I chose to write an honors thesis in my senior year, see here for details. I continued at Tufts for graduate school, graduating in 2025 with a Master of Science in Computer Science degree.

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I also have a blog. You can see a full index of my posts here. My latest blog post is:

The Story of PHP 8.5.6 Release Candidate 3

Thursday, 30 April 2026

I have previously had to skip a non-stable release (PHP 8.5.0 alpha3), and to create an extra unplanned release candidate (PHP 8.5.0 RC5). For PHP 8.5.6 release candidate 3, I had to do both: release candidate 2 was unplanned, and then an error led to skipping it, resulting in release candidate 3 that I just announced. Here is what happened. Continue reading...