In something I probably knew once but never used - you can return a response in a laravel policy. Bools give you a 403, but Response::deny("you can't access this because you are not part of the owning team") is clearer for the user - and then you when they complain they can't see it! #LaravelTip

Devastating real world impacts of the #aws outage:

Loved reading this post about #PHP ’s new URI extension - the amount of work in making it good, secure, and extendible for the future is impressive, but the benefits being extended not only to PHP, but also to upstream projects is quite delightful. thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10...

wait was that prod

In notifications: "AWS billing alert (99+)"

All npm packages compromised

I'm CLI fluid. Windows I'm using WSL, Mac I'm using pwsh. Pasting text is a trial and error approach to find the right key combo every time! #cli #wsl #pwsh

This is one of the more thought provoking articles I've read recently - I typically redirect, but maybe the norm should be to reject http api calls so clients have to use https? securinglaravel.com/security-tip...

As a European heres how to make it work: 1. Just kinda does. Who uses iMessage which is 90% of the problem here? www.androidpolice.com/my-house-is-...

Has Excel's insane enthusiasm for unhelpful conversion messed up your data? Call complaints on 0.344 8E+10

I've been trying out ddev on some projects, and I might, maybe, just so slightly be enjoying a docker setup for once. The best part was in the docs where it says it's using docker-composer, but you can "cheerfully ignore" that. ddev.com #webdev

There most embarrassing part of this to me is the lack of sensible problem solving steps, then blaming the WiFi? To me, he interrupted the first step, causing it to go onto the second. Should have asked for the previous step, not just kept asking "what do I do first?"

I am currently in an existential battle between doing things the time consuming way or the quick and easy way 😔 This code should really be a package - I already have it copied between 3 projects - it's 100% overdue being a package. But I could just copy it again without having to do package work...

Skimmed this email subject and wondered how they'd made an API for the 90's internet? #geocities

Generics? In #PHP? 🎉 thephp.foundation/blog/2025/08...

#Laravel Idea to become free with PHPStorm. Idea is so awesome, if you've not used it before you're going to love it. blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/202...

Couple of months back I had some new users with various internal app problems. Turns out many auth checks were done via user display name lookup. Case sensitive, unpredictable and entirely undocumented. It often used an email to build a request to get a display name too... 🙄

Just realised my tests are showing deprecated warnings as they're now running under php 8.4. Went to change it back and realised they take twice as long in 8.3! Guess I've got a good reason to upgrade! 😄 #php #testing

Anyone know if theres an AI conference on somewhere where they're talking about php? 👀 #phpverse

Both backend and frontend devs agree CSS is !important #programmerHumor #css #frontend #backend

2FA Security without upsetting users: 😂 #security #2fa #programmerhumor

Users when you make a clear and easy workflow for them: bsky.app/profile/kate...

I guess "vibe coding tech you don't remotely understand" isn't so bad in the context of peoples reliance on ai: 🤦‍♂️

Both backend and frontend devs agree CSS is !important #programmerHumor #css #frontend #backend

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