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mwop, 5 days ago to random

Good god, it's been 12 years. Can we stop spreading the fractal of bad design article already?

Do better, @php_discussions - not everything needs to be shared again and again, particularly articles like this that haven't aged well.

https://mastodon.social/

mwop, 22 days ago to php

Blogged a bit about ZendHQ, and how I'm priming queues, as well as some of the features I really appreciate as a user.

https://mwop.net/blog/2024-05-07-zendhq-jq-warmup.html

#php

mwop, 24 days ago to random

Had somebody ask me to keep politics off the platform for a post I made today.

They're blocked.

If you ask people not to post political stuff, it means "don't post political stuff I don't agree with." And that's BS.

mwop, 25 days ago to random

Great read on how regressives stoke campus protests as a tactic to amplify their own policies and fuel rage against "liberalism" amongst their base, and how academic leadership falls for it again and again.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/university-protests-columbia-college-republicans.html

mwop, 25 days ago to random

Lessons in city and school planning.

Our high schools don't use the school bus system, and rely on city buses. However, they've also reduced service. Most kids who ride have a large walk to a stop, and either have to get there absurdly early, or risk not enough space on the buses that get there on time.

And our city is now doing road construction on each of the major roads to the school, AND the one backup route coming from the south.

Talk about setting kids up for failure...

mwop, 1 month ago to random

Hey, #phptek / #phptek24 folks: Raffle drawing for the four small denim elephpants and 4 @zend hats is happening at 1:40pm - that's in 10 minutes! Head over and find out if you won!

mwop, 1 month ago to random

If you're at #phptek, come visit me at the @zend booth and say hello (if you haven't already!)

mwop, 1 month ago to firefox

So irritated that #firefox decided NOT to support PWAs on Linux. (Yes, I know about the extension, but it's a PITA to keep up-to-date, and because it uses an ADDITIONAL runtime in the background, it's a waste of system resources.)

I've concluded that the only way to use Outlook consistently on Linux is via the web (love OWL for TB, but invites/events often disappear)... and without reasonable PWA support in FF, I'm having to contemplate returning to a chromium-based browser. 😥

mwop, 1 month ago to random

As a kid, I always read the comics page of the newspaper, and this continued until I stopped getting one in the early 00s. Then I started reading webcomics, including some of my favs from the newspaper.

I discovered that For Better or For Worse was re-running from the beginning on the web, with author comments, and I’ve read it every day.
1/x

mwop, 1 month ago to random

Happy to see at least one major newspaper taking a principled stand for democracy.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

mwop, 2 months ago to discworld

I came to Terry Pratchett via Good Omens, and then went on to read Thud! which was just out in paperback. I continued to devour Discworld, and eagerly awaited each new book. The Shepherd's Crown made me weep when I read it, knowing it was the last.

The past two years and more, I've read to my wife every night, and we've been making our way through Discworld together. We laugh, we weep, we clutch each other in suspense. We're treated to a world we wish was ours.

#GNUTerryPratchett #discworld

mwop, 2 months ago to php

Alright, now that the flights are purchased... excited to announce my first conference talk in over 4 years. I'll be giving a session on the State of PHP in 2024, derived from the @zend 2024 PHP Landscape Report, at @phptek

Looking forward to seeing old and new friends alike! Look for me at the Zend booth (we're sponsoring!) and say hello!

https://tek.phparch.com/schedule#sz-session-616458

#php

mwop, 2 months ago to random

Having observed McConnell since the early 2000s, this article rings true. The man has had a devastating impact on democracy, in ways that will be hard to undo, in part because he ensured the mechanisms that could will only work in the favor of the GOP going forward. It's a chilling read.

https://www.vox.com/2024/2/29/24085915/mitch-mcconnell-broke-congress-supreme-court-filibuster

mwop, 3 months ago to random

So, I got an email from my DNS provider, indicating I'd exceeded my lookups and needed to upgrade.

I went to the dashboard. I usually have 10-15k lookups against my domain per day.

Yesterday, there were 5.2 MILLION.

Is this a new attack vector I've not read about? Anybody read anything about this?

mwop, 3 months ago to random

Gutted to learn the online art club I've been part of the past 4 years is shuttering in a couple months. I've learned so much, and appreciated the weekly "third place" it has provided.

Reaffirms my decision to pursue CZT training so I can build something locally.

mwop, 3 months ago to til

#til Delta is a great tool for visualizing diffs, particularly when used with git: https://dandavison.github.io/delta/introduction.html

#git #cli

mwop, 3 months ago to random

So, #lazyWeb - I have some work travel next week, and realized I likely would like to protect myself from hotel wifi. Recommendations for a reputable VPN? Willing to set something up on a cloud VM if needed.

mwop, 4 months ago to linux

Blogged: fixing audio choppiness in OBS Studio.

https://mwop.net/blog/2024-01-18-obs-studio-audio-choppiness.html

#screencast #obsstudio #linux

mwop, 4 months ago to random

It never ceases to amaze me that we can have windchill of -40, and yet I'll see squirrels, rabbits, and birds active outside.

Meanwhile, if humans go out, we suffer frostbite in minutes.

MINUTES.

mwop, 4 months ago to random

I decided to post the opposite of the usual "how it started/how it's going" meme, and share my new year's project, my office cleanup. My office closet has, for years, been a place to just toss things we want to save, including old electronics. But the shelving was minimal, and mostly that crap wire stuff, so it became a huge mess. Oh, and the light bulb died years ago.

I started by throwing ¾ of the stuff, and then building real shelving. Still populating it, but huge progress!

Almost done with the project, the well-lit closer now has custom wall-mounted shelving that I built, with items well organized. There's also far less stuff, and almost no electronics.

mwop, 4 months ago to random

Shout out to @heiglandreas and @shochdoerfer for their recommendation of Owl for Thunderbird! Soooo nice to be using a dedicated mail client again for my work email/calendar!

mwop, 5 months ago to random

Hit the three week mark of my advent blogging, with today's post on tmux.

https://mwop.net/blog/2023-12-21-advent-tmux.html

The post incluces a shoutout to the wonderful book by @bphogan , as it taught me a ton about tmux I'd not have learned myself.

#tmux

mwop, 5 months ago to random

Exactly how does censoring Nazis make the problem created by platforming Nazis worse?

FFS

https://mas.to/@cpoliticditto/111619506952015849

mwop, 5 months ago to random

I've got 5 more advent posts to go, and only have concrete plans for less than that... Any requests?

mwop, 5 months ago to random

Two-thirds done with my Advent 2023 blogging. Takeaways so far:

• I had ideas for topics, and yet still found myself doing research along the way. I love this method for deep learning!
• This pace is untenable for the long term. I'll get through it fine, but posting every day is a quick road to burnout and/or repeating myself.
• But I could easily manage a post a week or every other week.
• I've had some interesting engagement, particularly on the posts covering tools and processes.