LerdPHP
lerdphp.bsky.social
LerdPHP
@lerdphp.bsky.social
Local PHP development for Linux and macOS. Automatic .test domains, per-project PHP, one-command TLS. Rootless Podman, open source.
175 commits, 70 merged PRs, 5 contributors.

Full digest: lerd.sh/digest/v1.35.0.html
lerd v1.35.0 — dev digest
Engineering digest for lerd v1.35.0: PHP running on the host rather than across a bind mount, twelve dashboard themes kept in the config, and disk figures that stopped counting a shared layer once per...
lerd.sh
September 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Also twelve dashboard themes, kept in the config rather than in one browser, so they follow you to another machine.

And the disk numbers got honest. A shared base layer was charged once per image sitting on it, so a cleanup claiming 1.5 GiB actually freed 0.3.
September 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
It ships as beta and nothing switches unless you ask. The extension set is fixed at build time, so php:ext and php:pkg refuse under it, and native builds start at 8.1.

lerd php:runtime
September 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
So PHP can now run natively on macOS. PHP-FPM, the CLI, composer and workers on the host, nginx and services stay in containers.

A Laravel app with Horizon and Filament went from 62 to 238 req/s under 10 concurrent clients.

Linux never had that boundary and is unchanged.
September 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM