@afilina.bsky.social Thanks a ton for sponsoring me on GitHub! It is so much appreciated, especially given I know how much you’re already giving to help Ukraine protect itself and Europe 💛 Count on me to transform your support into the best #OSS contributions I can! Merry Christmas 🥂

I'm working on a new PHP workshop. I'm laughing because in 5 minutes, I was able to create an include and nomenclature mess (on purpose) that would make everyone's head hurt. It's not even as bad as what I see in the wild. In case you can make it to Montreal in February: confoo.ca/en/2026/sess...

What do we miss about PHP without hearing the thinking behind it? Come listen, ask, and learn. codefire-conversations.com

We teach about the dangers of too much indirection in code, but when it comes to infrastructure, those lessons seem to be disregarded. If you struggle when reasoning about your infrastructure, it can take your top engineers a day or more to fully resolve a production outage.

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

While preparing my talk for SymfonyCon about framework upgrades, I did a deeper research into the history of backward compatibility management. Now I appreciate the effort that the @symfony.com team put into ensuring smooth transitions even more. It's really S tier in my opinion.

In this podcast with fwdays, we talked about mentorship, open source, legacy code, and a few other topics. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=poquW_vYxUs

Ah yes, the Online Safety Act. Like SovietWomble said: "we're just going to disconnect the internet and float off into the Atlantic". It was a random joke 6 years ago. Now it's slowly becoming a reality.

There we go. 40 years old. I don't feel any different.

🙌 Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend ➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/remembering-ryan-weaver-teacher-core-team-member-friend

Nébuleuse de l'Iris (NGC 7023), hier soir depuis mon jardin au sud de Rennes. #S50 #Astrophoto (stacking: 33 minutes)

Blind bird pricing for @longhorn ends tonight. I hope I’ll see you there! https://phpc.social/@longhorn/115085335840037464 #php #longhornphp

Today is Ukraine's Independence Day. If you want to contribute, our volunteer recon team, which keeps the invaders away, needs to repair some vehicles. Slava Ukraini! afilina.com/donate/harmata

This talk is a terrifying dive into how corporate enshittification ("we need an audit trail" anybody?) and the Peter principle are everywhere, punching security holes through the highest levels of a government. https://youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY

Just a friendly reminder that the correct pronunciation of "The Linux Foundation" is "The Collective Interests of Big Tech" re: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115010725723159394

What's a good solution for a fediverse-driven blog comment section? I'm thinking disqus, but fedi-driven 🤔

The is no such thing as software that should only last a few years. That was a harmful myth from the start. There's a prototype, and there's software you plan to use, maintain and expand.

Don't buy Logitech mice. To please shareholders, they enshittified and switched to ultra-cheap components that break after a few months, causing the device to incorrectly double-click. Enough to drive you mad and ruin your work/gameplay. >>

I had to turn off all capitalization-related autocorrect in Word. It's just incompatible with technical documents. reCAPTCHA is not an accidental caps lock. GChart is not a typo.

Going through a list of PHP dependencies of a legacy project and routinely marking libs as "abandoned in 2008." You know you're doing legacy archaeology when you download zip copies of code via the wayback machine.

LOL what?! 15K views on a video of one of my talks, as though Nerdearla didn't already have a huge audience. "Effortless Software Development" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_Q...

Interesting discussion.

If you’re in need of a veteran Symfony dev, ping me! I’ve got someone!

Ok is it just me or Ukraine's flag no longer displays in my profile name? It was fine before. Software is hard.

I worked with Zend Framework since 2007. It eventually became Laminas. Now it's retiring. It was a fun few decades. Mezzio is so much better though, so I agree with this decision. getlaminas.org/blog/2025-06...

- Everything the light touches is our kingdom. - What about that shadowy place? - That server still runs PHP 4. You must never go there.

It's hard to believe that PHP is already 30. I've been using it *only* since 2003, which is when much of the legacy I fix today was written.

Today I turn 41. Cons: have this mean-ass brain tumor Pros: unlike last year, I’m at home. Also, my MRI from Monday is stable and I watched my baby cousin get married last weekend Plenty to be grateful for

Slides from my IPC talk "Upgrading Legacy to the Latest PHP Version" speakerdeck.com/afilina/upgr... #intPHPconf

This year we celebrate 20 YEARS of PHP Conference Brazil! We are proud to be the Main and Longest Living PHP Conference in Latin America! Our Call For Papers is now OPEN: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Are you attending IPC next week? Mark your schedules for these sessions with Zend PHP experts Anna Filina ( @afilina.bsky.social ) and Massimiliano Cavicchioli — details below. Original post: phpc.social/@zend/114587...

If you're able to help Joe today, please do. He and his family have a great financial need, and could use our support. "I have psychiatry and psychology appointments on the 4th and 6th of June. Currently I won't be able to get there because they are at a hospital in my previous town. My main […]

"According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach in 2024 was $4.88 million." Um, yikes. The kind of prevention my team does is certainly a lot cheaper. People really don't like to think about risks. www.zend.com/blog/php-exp...

🇺🇦 Donations give us wings (or propellers). afilina.com/donate/harmata

We've done it! The Zend PHP Certification is back on the menu! www.zend.com/training/php...

It's dangerous to go alone. Take these strategies for hardening PHP applications from my colleague Mike Pavlak. www.zend.com/blog/php-har...

If hell exists, 100% sure the pope was sent there.

Energy saving tip when using Google: To avoid AI, just add "-fucking" or "-shit" or similar at the end of your query. Google sees the cuss word and turns off AI. The minus says "don't include results with this word". Obviously if you want the result with that word, just leave off the minus.

Last day to get your early-bird tickets for the greatest international #Symfony conference, held in Amsterdam November 27+28!

Wow, this is well done and funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJQ...

Is your team using PHP? Ever wanted to have an architect on speed dial? Now you can. I designed this cool new Black Belt service so you can book consultations in a flexible way. www.zend.com/services/bla...

We got tired of illiberal voices dominating the social media space and decided to create our own podcast, The Free World, to fight back against this infestation. With me, @drewpavlou.bsky.social and @derparrot.bsky.social as the hosts, we discuss geopolitics, etc. youtube.com/@freeworldco...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

The PHP Foundation's 2024 Transparency & Impact Report is out! Learn about our work to support PHP's future. Read more: thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03...

Random knowledge: List of scientists whose names are used as units. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

🔔 #PHP object-mapper library Valinor v1.15.0 was released! A new compilation feature is introduced in this release. It required huge efforts and a lot of time. If you appreciate it, please consider sponsoring my work: github.com/CuyZ/Valinor... 🤗 Release notes: github.com/CuyZ/Valinor...

Alternatively, invite me to present it at your foss-relevant conference?

In response to outright hostile crawling by AI companies, some websites go as far as serving them fake content to poison their models. An understandable response. AI models trained on public data will become increasingly useless though, and it's their own fault. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...

The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site. The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/