andrewfeeney

andrewfeeney, 5 months ago to Laravel

I don't miss Twitter but I do miss the #Laravel community I used to interact with there. I don't really see any evidence that those folks are likely to give up on it soon, but I do wish they would. I expect the hard-liners wouldn't end up on Mastodon anyway.

Welp, will just have to do my best to build and contribute what I'm missing to this community.

andrewfeeney, 1 year ago to random

TIL: A deliberately cheesy piece of "elevator music" I wrote a decade ago was used in a game called "Five Nights at Freddy's: Special Delivery", released on iOS and Android in 2019. Recently it was used again in a Little Caesar's ad for Pretzel Crust pizza, and there are hundreds of commenters on YouTube who recognise it from the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g5Yt_aM7rA&t=224s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_-msPfH9k

I almost never got to see how any of the music I wrote from that time got used so for me this is wild.

andrewfeeney, 10 months ago to random

Fixing the line of code: 10 seconds.

Knowing which line of code to fix: A decade of experience.

Realising that's not the right line to fix: 4 hours.

Knowing which line of code to actually fix: 4 more hours.

Fixing the actual line which needed fixing: 10 seconds.

andrewfeeney, 3 months ago to random

What is the most obscure programming language you know well, or have chosen to / had to use in earnest?

andrewfeeney, 1 month ago to php

#PHP and #infosec folks, what do you make of this?

https://youtu.be/kQdRT2odUIk

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago to random

Starship Enterprise implies the existence of Starship Free, Starship Personal, Starship Cloud (Most Popular), Starship Cloud Pro, Starship Cloud Pro PLUS, and Starship On Premises (Contact for pricing).

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to php

Folks, if you parrot opinions like "PHP is an insecure language" or "PHP has inherent security flaws" in 2024, and you can't point to specific issues with modern, current versions of PHP to back it up, all you are doing is demonstrating your ignorance.

The fact is, modern #PHP is every bit as secure, solid and performant a server-side #programming platform as #Node, #Python, or many other popular languages.

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago to random

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the capitalist idea of wealth (as opposed to abundance) is built on the assumption of wealth disparity. Being “wealthy” is having power to avoid unpleasant tasks or responsibilities by delegating them to those who are powerless to avoid the same. Everybody can’t have this kind of “wealth”, or it doesn’t work. The rich are only rich if there are many more poor folks. It makes me increasingly uncomfortable with my own privilege.

andrewfeeney, 3 months ago to infosec

Suppose you have a sign in form which first accepts an email address and then proceeds to MFA steps. If you enter an email which does not match one in the system you get an error. "No matching account found" or whatever. Conversely if you enter an email which matches, you progress to the next screen. In this way you can know whether or not a particular email address is registered with the service.

What would be an alternative approach that doesn't reveal this information?

#InfoSec #WebDev

andrewfeeney, 1 year ago to random

Shower thought of the day, by definition you can’t be a generous billionaire.

andrewfeeney, 6 months ago to random

Happy 1.7 billion to all those who celebrate.

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

JSON object keys should be:

andrewfeeney, 10 months ago to HashtagGames

Sadiator

#RejectedMoviePlots
#HashtagGames

andrewfeeney, 10 months ago to php

Sometimes I like to think about the question of what a #PHP web framework would look like today if you started with the latest version of PHP using the most modern approaches without backwards compatibility constraints.

andrewfeeney, 3 months ago to random

I'm calling my Foo Fighters tribute band made up of other programming buddies the "Foo Barfighters".

andrewfeeney, 1 year ago to fediverse

People who've migrated from other social media sites: What are some of your favourite accounts which you follow which you only discovered after coming here?

Extra points if they only exist in the #fediverse.

andrewfeeney, 9 months ago to HashtagGames

#BackInMyDay
#HashtagGames

We had to read books on the train because there was nothing else to do.

andrewfeeney, 10 months ago to ChatGPT

If you ask #ChatGPT to write a story it will mostly write a story about a young girl called Lily who lives in the forest.

andrewfeeney, 6 months ago to random

Apropos of nothing

andrewfeeney, 9 months ago to random

I admit I don't really take simulation theory seriously, but one of my biggest problems with it is how many assumptions it makes, the very basis of which would be invalidated if it were true.

For instance, our basic assumptions that simulating human behaviour is possible, desirable and inevitable rely on observations that, if we are in a simulation, have been fed to us such that we cannot trust them.

Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but to me it seems paradoxical and self-invalidating.

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago to random

People who run code coverage checks in their CI pipelines, what do you DO with them? Is it just for reference? Do you fail if coverage decreases? Do you fail below some fixed percentage? How do you track it?

andrewfeeney, 5 months ago to random

#ObliqueDebuggingStrategies

Is the build process detecting your file changes?

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to HashtagGames

Another set of drawers, complete with it's own junk drawer

#OddItemsInTheJunkDrawer
#HashtagGames

andrewfeeney, 4 months ago to random

Trying to find a straightforward way to merge XML coverage reports generated by #phpunit via #CodeCeption. The end goal is a nice HTML report. I can generate the HTML report or XML for a single chunk, but none of the tooling I can find to combine the chunks works. There's an open bug in #phpcov which prevents the serialized PHP reports from being able to be combined.

I'd consider tools in php, python, node, rust, or binaries for mac or linux.

Does anyone have a go to solution?

andrewfeeney, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to random

I might be wrong but I can’t recall a single time the word “star” is uttered or a star features in any plot point of Star Wars. The closest I can think of is shots of the twin suns of Tatooine.

Edit: I was wrong. Death Star, and Starkiller Base are two obvious examples.