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dragonmantank

@dragonmantank@phpc.social

I coalesce the vapor of human experience into a viable and logical comprehension.

PHP developer, author, speaker, and podcast host. Senior developer relations @ Vonage. My posts and opinions are my own, and are hot garbage. Pretty sure a raccoon writes these things.

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The IDE idoltry for PHPStorm is astounding. It’s a good IDE for sure and I’m not telling anyone to not use it, but don’t think it’s a good standard and people are idiots for using something else. People can be productive with just about anything.

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The Office Manager is upset by the presence of the Interns and is pretending she has a sore paw to get sympathy. She has done this before. How do we know it’s fake? Because she keeps forgetting which paw it is

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@grmpyprogrammer Our dogs have done the same thing.

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TIL that TikTok does not pay any money to folks who make videos on their platform if they are in Canada

dragonmantank,
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@grmpyprogrammer And they barely pay anything to creators even in the US, if they do at all. Most make their money from sponsorships.

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I think you can love the job you do, but it’s always important to remember that unless you are the owner, 99.9% of jobs will view you as a replaceable resource.

https://phpc.social/@grmpyprogrammer/111250049812465088

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Ease of use and time to first thing on the screen is important.

This is why I use PHP for web development. The quick turnaround from nothing to something in the browser is what I want.

Weirdly, on the desktop it tends to be Python and tkinter. Getting a GUI running without anything but the language is empowering.

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What if it turns out we are the only life in the galaxy and this is how we treat ourselves?

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@jmichaelward That's the rub of the Fermi Paradox, isn't it? You'd think we'd see something out there, but we don't.

We're potentially an anomaly, a unique quirk in the universe.

Or we're the latest happenstance, and all previous life/civilizations fall apart before you get interstellar.

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@grmpyprogrammer @jmichaelward The paradox itself just describes the lack of any evidence.

There are multiple "answers" to the question including general rarity, extinction events, lack of ability, war tendencies, etc.

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@kboyd @grmpyprogrammer @jmichaelward We all know that our flat earth is on the back of four giant elephants standing atop a majestic space turtle.

The question is just why aren’t we seeing any other majestic space turtles. There should be thousands!

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Any recommendations on desktop API clients? I don't want to have to have an external account with like Postman or Kong just to make some API calls.

Yes, I could use cURL or httpie, but I would rather have something that's a GUI and standalone for when I'm trying to mess around with a new API. If I was automating stuff that would be a different story.

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@ramsey Oh, cool, didn't know they had that now. Will try it out!

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Finally broke down and got a Steam Deck.

I should have gotten this sooner.

dragonmantank,
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@sephster Going to be both. Right now I play via a laptop plugged into my living room TV, or console. It will definitely replace my iPad I was using to stream games while I was on the road.

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I find it amusing how often I see people drool over the potential of AOT compilation. 🙂

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@Crell

ryan reynolds hd GIF

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@Crell I can’t imagine it’s much better, if at all, compared to either pre-compiled PHP templates, or even general dynamic rendering PHP does.

Sure, it’s better than an SPA loading things on demand, but for PHP doing the HTML rendering I fail to see the why. Lately I’m doing rendering in Node to output HTML directly to bypass SPA problems.

If you don’t mind ugly HTML, we even pretty much have a web-component layout if you are someone coming from JS. (I’m not advocating for that though).

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@ramsey @Crell Gotcha. I initially misunderstood the context. I just saw the Reddit thread a few minutes ago and read the internals thread.

I thought people wanted the AOT from the JS landscape, hence my web components comment. Didn’t realize it was the engine compiler itself.

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The longer I work in this industry the more I believe so many web apps should just be a front end to an Excel sheet or
Access DB https://mastodon.online/@akosma/111067785737645590

dragonmantank,
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@grmpyprogrammer You just described AirTable

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New status

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@ramsey it was the Foo Fighters. They were playing for Dreamforce.

It was great.

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@ramsey @grmpyprogrammer Yeah, Foo Fighters have actually played like 3 Dreamforces. I suspect the fee is well worth it.

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@ramsey @grmpyprogrammer The Foo Fighters didn’t pull anything either, they did great.

The Chili Peppers played last year and from everyone I knew that went they said that was a totally phoned in performance.

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Current status

full house whatever GIF

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Anyone using Starfield via steam link? I cannot get my controller to register properly, no matter what controller I use. Same controller works fine with other games.

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@bobmagicii It’s only giving me problems over steam link. I’ve been playing both with an 8bitDo and a proper Xbox controller over Bluetooth without problems to my living room PC.

For streaming, those two controllers plus a PS5 controller work fine except in Starfield.

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My favorite part of programming is fixing toolchain issues because that 5 line code fix needs to also come with 2 hours of debugging continuous integration problems because a toolchain item updated, dropped support for a language you still need to support, and none of the options for how the CI works allow you to specify a node version and an NPM version.

DevOps is dead.

Don't @ me.

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First impressions of Starfield:

It's a Bethesda RPG, so I'm fine with that. Having played No Mans Sky I don't want actual travel from planet to planet (and NMS already does cut-scene intersteller travel). I'm fine with not have Elite Dangerous takeoff/landing procedures.

Performance is rough. My 2060 is pegged at 100% and ~30 FPS with Medium settings, including FSR2 and 50% render resolution. I'm going to try it on my 6600 and see how it fares there. Almost not CPU utilization though.

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