LOL, someone just released a new package for #filamentphp on the domain filaas.com. Looks at the domain once. Looks a second time. What, exactly, do you want me to fill here? I take it their AI agent didn't think through the name implications?

I have just published version 7.1.18 of #fedifetcher This fixes a couple of bugs and bumps some dependencies, so I advise updating if you are still using FediFetcher. Many thanks to @GeoffreyFrogeye for their contribution! Full details here […]

Wow, I’m amazed by @forgejo ! Set it up over the weekend and migrated a couple of repositories over. Amazingly simple to set up thanks to docker compose and good documentation! Set up a runner as well, which was just as straightforward. Everything just works. Well done guys and girls! […]

I’m seriously considering hosting my own GitHub alternative now. What’s the best option to do so? Here are my requirements: * two way syncing to GitHub (I’ve got a couple of repositories that I need to be in there) * support for Issues, PRs * actively maintained * good looking * […]

What amazing magic is this?! 🤯 https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

Today I had to have a look at a site I created in the early ‘00s (yes, amazingly still live, and largely unchanged too, except I added some mobile design on top at some stage). It's amazing how much CSS has moved on since: On that site I had used `display: inline-block; float: left;` to get a […]

We in the UK might soon have to show ID when buying sharpies: https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/

New blog by me: I'm running Proxmox Backup Server using Backblaze B2 (an S3 compatible object storage service) for storing backups. This does work fine, but my scheduled verification (I verify once a week) regularly fails on some backups due to what appears to be transient issues with the B2 […]

Help me out friends, I’m looking for a #qr code generator. I want it to be highly customisable. What I really want is the ability to upload svg shapes to use instead of the normal squares. Ideally no account required. Any recommendations? #lazyweb

Hey @MonaApp Any hope of getting support for showing html in posts?

Claude, you are drunk! Go home! (This is Claude suggesting it should implement pagination in a Laravel Livewire component with … a horribly over-engineered mess.)

Probably controversial view on here, but hear me out: We (experienced devs) always gleefully share stories of AI deleting production databases or otherwise totally screwing up. We like to point out that this is one of many reasons why you shouldn’t use AI. But … people have been deleting […]

What a terrible tragedy all around! Post Natal Depression is such a desperately cruel condition! If you are suffering from Post Natal Depression please seek help. If you know someone who is, please urge them to seek help. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8p752z9zyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

That guy has totally lost the plot, hasn’t he?! Which other country has a picture of their current head of state in it? Anyone?

Somehow my version of of #fedifetcher has started taking 1hr+ per run yesterday. I haven’t made any changes to either my instance or my FediFetcher settings. I haven’t yet had a chance to properly look into it but was wondering if anyone else has seen anything similar?

lol. Anyone want a #friendster account? Im pleased to say I’m too young for this 😁 https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/friendster_rises_from_the_grave/

RE: https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael/116348353700944355 And yesterday my son released version 1 of php-deploykit: A bash tool to deploy #php #laravel applications. In this version he has actually built a webhook, a log viewer, and of course support of zero downtime deployments etc. He's also […]

If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned […]

I went to the local park today and it was super busy because of a Nepali Festival (Biska Jatra?) Full of colour, amazing outfits, people having a great time. It reminded me of why I love this place: the multiculturalism. When I grew up in Germany everyone was so very … German. First time I […]

Why is it so hard to get Claude to consistently avoid (associative) arrays in #php?! It will go to extreme length to annotate array shapes, but really doesn’t like objects 🙄

Goodness gracious #laravel! What a disgrace! https://github.com/laravel/boost/pull/758

RE: https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael/116413353094001294 Really really really sad to see @Mastodon double down on this policy. My own instance uses `mstdn` as a sub domain (and pre-dates the official trademark policy). As it's impossible to change the domain of an instance I cannot even change […]

I did not expect having to budget £200+ per academic year on school trips once my kid reached secondary school. They seem to be going somewhere on an almost monthly basis. Is that normal in UK secondary schools, or is my kid’s school over the top? (It’s a grammar school, if that makes any […]

That moment when you want to show off in the family chat with a selfie in front of a 1,000 year old building - but then realise that that really isn’t all that impressive to the in laws in Egypt 🙈😂

So, my kid did a thing: Built a shell script to deploy his #php #laravel stuff on his VMs. He put a lot of time and effort into this, and I’m incredibly proud of what he has accomplished. He has released his first beta version today, and as proud dad I must do my thing to spread the news […]

What is this? https://github.com/php-debugger/php-debugger Just been promoted by Laravel News and the repo is really not clear on whether this is something built by (or at least with the blessing of) @derickr or not. It lists Derick under the ‘Sponsor this project' section, but something feels […]

See, that’s why I never update my dependencies #npm #axios #webdev #infosec @vnzn#npm#axios#webdev#infosecps://mas.to/@vnzn/116322019256347755

My status page for services I run for myself and my family now has 18 entries. And then there are 4 further monitors on my Uptime Kuma instance that I'm not publicising for different reasons. I seem to have become to addicted to self hosting…

I hate the way the world is moving with AI! https://www.semrush.com/blog/google-ai-generated-landing-pages-patent/

My home feed is so full of spam lately it really isn’t fun anymore. Posts like these from random accounts from random instances. Sometimes dozens at a time. I’m not really sure what to do about it. I feel reporting is gonna be a waste of time, and […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

Question to the wordpress community: What's the best way to store sessions in redis? Is it just by setting `session.save_handler` in the php.ini, or are the other options / pitfalls? #php #wordpress

Can someone with experience in #proxmox or #virtualisation more generally help me wrap my head around how virtual processors work? With RAM it's all fairly obvious: If my host has x GB, once they are allocated to VMs they are gone. But processors obviously […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access - The Register https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/open_source_bill_opinion/

> The new feature is now available to Claude Pro and Max subscribers using MacOS in what Anthropic calls a “research preview.” That means the system “won’t always work perfectly” and will sometimes require a “second try” for complex tasks, Anthropic warns […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

LOL, the family dog is dead scared of the toddler’s new rocking deer. Doesn't it look scary?

My VET currently charges £15 for a prescription. Any bets on them raising their prices to £21? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj32d05x702o

I literally cannot wrap my head around people who write blog posts on x. Not tweets-that-should've-been-blog-posts. Actual blog posts…

Been playing around with FreshRSS over the weekend. Pretty cool! Especially when combined with morss to convert RSS feeds that are intro only into full text feeds. But the mobile view is pretty bad! Had to spend some time adding Custom CSS to make it acceptable to me. Might blog about it soon […]

I will never understand the British (English?) obsession with semi-detached houses and terraces. Why are they so opposed to detached houses? I understand it in large(ish) cities, but the other day I had driven my wife for a medical appointment in a village in Kent. While waiting for her I went […]

I'm concerned about LLM code in #curl and would like to suggest a code ban" https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/20972

I just published my blog post on how I'm running Mastodon through Cloudflare Tunnels since the migration to my home server: https://blog.thms.uk/2026/03/mastodon-cloudflare-tunnel?utm_source=mastodon #mastoadmin

Ofcom is undertaking a paid survey for people who work for companies in scope of the UK #onlinesafetyact. If any of y'all are running Mastodon/Akkoma/Pixelfed/etc servers and have some kind of legal entity for doing so, drop me a line and I'll make an introduction. I'm gonna ask if that's […]

BIMI is a specification to allow you to tell email clients to show your brand logo in the inbox. Well, kinda… Today I had to set up BIMI for someone. I wrote down the process: https://blog.thms.uk/2026/03/setting-up-bimi?utm_source=mastodon #bimi #email

No, Mr Headteacher. Measles is not the same as meningitis 🤦‍♂️🙄

And just like that my last #hetzner server is gone, and the migration to my home server is officially complete 🥳 #selfhosting #proxmox

One of the amazingly fun things since I got my home server and installed proxmox on it, is that my kid (12) immediately wanted a VM on it to host some of his stuff. So we have been figuring out proxmox together, and I’ve been able to teach him about firewalls, port forwarding, tunnels […]

Sometime over the next few days I intend to migrate this instance to a server running in a closet in my home (currently hosted at Hetzner, but getting expensive, to I invested about half a year's worth of hosting cost into buying a physical device). Wish me luck everyone 🤞 #mastoadmin

German vs Egyptian hospitality. I was just reminded of the first time I visited my in-laws, vs the first time my wife visited my parents: 🇪🇬: for dinner they had made stuffed pigeon, 3 whole chickens, stuffed vine leaves, rice, pasta bake, coke, sprite, mango juice, orange juice. 🇩🇪: spaghetti […]

Ah crap. Enabled the proxmox firewall before opening port 8009 or 22 🤦‍♂️ #proxmox

Does anyone have a good guide on migrating a from-source Mastodon install to a docker one? #mastoadmin