EFF sees through the thin veil of internet censorship bills that claim to "protect the kids." Age-gating the internet is not the answer, and we're fighting back. eff.org/spring

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

Come hear Cindy discuss all this and much more as she joins @asavage.bsky.social (Mythbusters, Unchained Reaction, Savage Builds) next Wednesday, May 13 at @cwclub.bsky.social in San Francisco!

Current banger: Beastie Boys - Root Down #MCADay #RIPAdamYauch

It's May 4th, so you know what that means... (Yep, Tibetan monks breakdancing in honor of Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys!) youtu.be/_Q6NqX2bxtA?...

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Current banger: Titiyo - Come along

The post by mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/be...

Researchers Uncover 73 Fake VS Code Extensions Delivering GlassWorm v2 Malware thehackernews.com/2026/04/rese...

Current bange... OI!

PHP 8.5 just arrived as the default version on openSUSE Project Tumbleweed! 🎉 🐘 🐧

Playing with encryption for the past couple of days. Started encrypting and decrypting strings (the basics, which I was already familiar with); Now moved on to encrypting and decrypting text and binary files. #php + Sodium = ❤️

Cue MacOS users screaming on social media about losing files in 3... 2... 1. alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/...

Current banger: LCD Soundsystem - No love lost

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American-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is being held by the Kuwaiti government for his social media posts. EFF calls for his immediate release. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

🎤✨ More speakers revealed at #Symfony_Live Berlin 2026! The lineup keeps growing, don't miss your chance to meet them in person!💥 🎟️ Get your tickets here: live.symfony.com/2026-berlin/ #Symfony #Berlin #PHP #TechEvent

I just published v0.1.0 of OAS-Common, a repository of common OpenAPI Initiative specs to be reused between API specs. github.com/galvao/oas-c...

Current banger: The Hives - T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.

Found on LinkedIn (link below, because I give credit to authors). Spot on. www.linkedin.com/posts/micwie...

Current banger: Prophets of Rage - Smashit ✊

SICKENING!!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

so what i am learning from github.com/axios/axios/... is that you should simply never join a Microsoft Teams call for any reason --- because of security

Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/e...

PHP Foundation Director interview phpc.tv/w/5yxazXTYp8...

It was then, more than 30 years after I've started, that people began forgetting about programming, while I kept learning.

#Lazyweb, please recommend your favorite CMS with i18n support (native or through add-ons): - WordPress? - Joomla? - Drupal? - None of the above? Then what?

Blogged: Why I Created phpc.tv afilina.com/why-phpc-tv

Current banger: Public Enemy - She watch Channel Zero Happy Birthday to the legendary @flavorflav.bsky.social !

Current banger: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow 🌹

@vivaldi.com 's new auto-hide UI is chef's kiss. ❤️

Many kudos to Ben Ramsey for the work on this RFC. Licenses are a complicated but important part of OSS. wiki.php.net/rfc/php_lice...

Current banger: INXS - Not enough time

worked with the tcpdump folks on an updated set of examples for the tcpdump man page www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcp... the idea is that if you've forgotten how tcpdump's basic flags work, you can find a quick reference in the man page!

Current banger: ABBA - Chiquitita ❤️

Current banger: Elis Regina - Como nossos pais #internationalwomensday2026

What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Current banger: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Season of The Witch #InternationalWomensDay2026

Current banger: Blondie - Heart of Glass #internationalwomensday2026

Current banger: Muse - Uprising

I've lived to see a collab between Alton Brown and Guga. That's it, carry on.

The Onion, perfect in it's satire, as usual.

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch www.theverge.com/policy/88634...

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...

Important for anyone using Proton Mail:

2 long forgotten functions of #PHP: compact() turns variable names into an associative array. extract() does the reverse. Named in PHP 4. Still works. Most devs forgot they exist. Where do you see this being used?