Dec 9th: Today's wonderful PHP person is Matthias Noback @[email protected]. Matthias is well known and well liked throughout the industry, has written many books, given many talks and is always happy to help. Thanks for being awesome Matthias! #phpadvent

Dec 10th: Today is Laravel number one employee, Mohamed Said - thanks for everything you do in the #Laravel & #PHP Communities! #phpadvent

Dec 11th: One of the coolest (currently semi able-bodied) humans on the planet, Michael Dyrynda. Co-host of Laravel News podcast and North Meets South podcast plus plenty more awesome Laravel contributions - thanks for everything Michael! #phpadvent

Dec 12: A co-creator of Laravel Nova, Tailwind, podcaster and more - today we're thankful for the talented Hemp. #phpadvent

We missed yesterday due to travel issues. So today you get two!

Dec 13th: package releasing machine Freek Van der Herten #phpadvent

Dec 14th: Over to the US for this one: Uncle Cal Evans who has contributed bunches to the community, is always very helpful and a kind person. Thanks Cal! #phpadvent

Dec 15th: With lots of useful shared snippets and insightful blog posts. Today we're thankful for Sebastian De Deyne. #phpadvent

Dec 16th: A man of many tips, willing to help all those who ask and is full of knowledge - it's the very awesome Caleb Porzio ⚡️. #phpadvent

Dec 17th: Symfony project lead, legend and all round PHP superstar, it's Fabien Potencier. Thanks for all your wonderful PHP work Fabian! #phpadvent

Dec 18th: Today we say thanks to Laravel employee #2, Dries Vints. Dries has maintained Laravel.io for a long time and been a very active, friendly and informative community member and speaker. #phpadvent

Dec 19th: Today we're grateful for user group leader, php-versions.info maintainer and all round nice nerd - @matthewtrask. #phpadvent

Dec 20th: From deploying to dedicated and servers to smiling - today's day belongs to Chris Fidao. Absolutely awesome community member sharing knowledge that is hard to articulate sometimes. Stay awesome, Chris. #phpadvent

Dec 21st: Today we're saying thanks to the co-author of Tailwind CSS, the great Jonathan Reinink - thanks Jonathan! #phpadvent

Dec 22nd: It's a person as nice as Santa Claus himself, creator of Flysystem, all round awesome guy - today we're thankful for Frank de Jonge. I've seen Frank help others time after time in the PHP community and he doesn't get enough recognition of that. #phpadvent

Dec 23rd: Today we're thankful for nunomaduro - creator of many Laravel related packages like Laravel Zero. He's recently started working at Algolia too! #phpadvent

Dec 24th: Take a moment to thank Taylor Otwell today, he's the creator of Laravel which gave PHP a huge boost and made a lot of people fall back in love with PHP. #phpadvent

Dec 25th: On a day many around the world share with family and loved ones in unity, there's a person in the PHP community who symbolises those more clearly than any other. With compassionate, care and a will to help anyone - we're all blessed to know . #phpadvent

No more advent countdown for this year. See you December 1st, 2019 for a new batch of awesome people.

@matthewtrask You’re welcome to try and convince me otherwise but you’ll only be wasting time that I could be playing bioshock