Guess the cat is out of the bag! I've been writing PHP since the late 90's, and its growth as a language has paralleled mine as a developer. I'm happy and honored to be able to be a part of a group of people working to continue advancing the language so many of us depend on!

"minimum viable shitposting" !!!!!!! 🤣

ramsey/uuid mentioned in print! This is a reminder that @phparch is a monthly magazine dedicated PHP. Go subscribe! (Thanks, @omerida, for using my library in your article; I got a kick out of it.) https://www.phparch.com #php

No ICE. No war. No Kings.

CONGRATULATIONS!

[experimental] trying something new with testing, looking for feedback Problem: coding accelerates, I can't keep up with tests. Either I review everything and we're not moving faster, either I don't and don't trust them Idea: executable specs

We’ve been running into people who had no idea what’s happening this Saturday which, honestly, caught us off guard. So please tell everyone you know.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ✊

A good post by Ryan Chandler: "Your value as a software engineer isn't in writing every single line of code, it's knowing which lines should exist at all." ryangjchandler.co.uk/posts/overco...

our mismanagement of the environment has crossed the point of no return, the dolphins are leaving

Some cats are just so damn cool.

The premiere of Friends is now closer to the Moon Landing than today. Oooof.

Video is what got me into podcasts, back in 2007! I would download video episodes from Diggnation, @leolaporte.me, Tekzilla, @cnet.com, and sync them to my iPod for my bus ride to work. Now, 20 years later, Apple is relaunching video in their podcasts app, and @transistor.fm is an initial partner!

Don’t ever let a recipe tell you how much garlic to put in. You measure that with your heart.

CERN took some antiprotons on a field trip! apnews.com/article/cern... (HT @matociquala.bsky.social)

Well holy shit. The Onion was just named one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by FastCompany. We're coming for you AI perverts!!!

"If you want Bluesky to be good you need to be weirder" Challenge accepted.

I just used github.com/travisvn/sto... to prevent the Tahoe upgrade notifications. I don't know why I didn't do it earlier.

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

Wealthy/powerful people are the least rational people you will ever encounter. We like to think, as a society, that poor people are poor because they make bad decisions, but most of the poor people I have known were making rational choices in situations where every option was bad.

Is it weird to anyone else that the “I’m a PC” and ”I’m a Mac” actors from Apple’s iconic ad campaign are now doing commercials for Ozempic with, essentially, the same narrative framing? lol

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating! 🎉🫶🏻

I’d like to have as many folks vote on this as possible, given the nature of the topic (i.e., copyright). If you keep in touch with any “old timers,” let them know I’d love to have their approval. Spread the word! https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update#voting_choices #php

Sweet. Can’t wait to try it out.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

crossed 50 million downloads on pestphp/pest 📈

Excellent writing from the PHP community - this week's issue at phpreads.com We also have an RSS feed now. Email Newsletter is next. Everything is free of ads and tracking.

A judge has blocked RFK Jr.'s changes to the childhood vaccine schedule and paused his appointments to the CDC's vaccine advisory panel.

If Dems are forced to filibuster they should read the Trump/Epstein files on the floor.

The bottleneck in software development is project management, product planning and product design; not coding. For this reason, LLMs to generate code will not make any difference to speed software development up—even for the hypothetical case that they would be infallible and free.

Happy Caturday you lovely Bluesky people From me and Kyushu

The straight of Hormuz is open for transit.

DEEP SQUIRREL THOUGHT ((( i resemble that remark! )))°°°🐿

Does it make sense to write tests for enums? I feel kind of like I should, just like I feel like I should write tests for public constants. If someone changes the static value, I want a test to complain about it, but PHPStan complains about me writing these tests because “it will always be true […]

I think I may have cracked it

this is how i access bluesky

This has always been true. We must ship

The better of a dev you are, the better you are with gen coding tools AI is amplifying bad patters that devs have Mostly because leadership team are creating environments that allows this to happen When failures happens it's a systems issues.

Clown shoes

😢 [giant virtual bear hug]

The Laravel Community Mobile App Helps You Discover Events and Connect With Developers posted by @ericlbarnes.com laravel-news.com/laravel-comm...

Fancy name for a piano

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Lifetime Achievement Award for Bill Nye the Science Guy 📸: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

☕ c h e e r s 🪂

starting soon.. watch here: www.youtube.com/live/gX-dAAG...

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed.

#LunarEclipse FAQ: Q: Is it safe to look at? A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse. Q: Do I need a telescope? A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up! Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom? A: Not at all! The news has that covered.

I hate writing opinion blog posts but I think I might be cooking with this one.