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mwop

@mwop@phpc.social

he/him

Laminas Project and Mezzio project lead. PHP-FIG founding member and current Core Committee member, and collaborator on multiple specs. Current Zend Product Manager.

I draw Zentangle-inspired art in my spare time.

#ActuallyAutistic
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https://mwop.net

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sekka, to random
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Random: as someone who existed during the 80s, "Stranger Things", wood paneling and cigarette smoke is a lot closer to the aesthetic than the weird neon artifacts you see out there.

mwop,
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@sekka Neon was the aspiration, the dream of modernity; wood paneling and cigarette smoke were the reality.

mwop, to AWS
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Blogged about a recent issue I encountered when trying to set up a sync folder in S3-compatible storage.

https://mwop.net/blog/2024-04-06-aws-s3-sync-folder.html

mwop, to random
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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

ramsey, to php
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When you receive my replies to the internals mailing list, do they look empty to you? I just noticed that my messages on both news.php.net and externals.io appear empty.

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/122829

https://externals.io/message/122811#122829

mwop,
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@derickr @ramsey That's neither helpful nor constructive, Derick. The mail clients you tend to prefer are frankly an anachronism today, not the norm. Don't gatekeep folks who are using different clients, particularly ones that are part of their OS or on mobile, please.

bertrand, to php
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Hey Mastodon, what's a free hosting plan for a server-side Web app + DB you'd recommend? Should I pursue with good old and or is there something more modern? I have a small doodling idea for this three days week-end and maybe I should also learn a new language?

mwop,
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@bertrand I wouldn't say is not modern; the language changes starting in 7.2 and forward have positioned it well, particularly regarding the type system improvements.

As for free hosting... I tend to stay away from it. If a security issue occurs, free means you're most likely vulnerable. DO droplets are pretty affordable.

ian, to random
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People who have had braces: does it hurt getting them taken off or after? My baby’s getting theirs off today and I never had braces as a kid, so I’m trying to figure out how best to take care of them

mwop,
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@ian Honestly... I can't even really remember. Which tells me it can't have been too traumatic.

saramg, to random
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Man... I gotta get my booty back out to an EU conference. It has been WAY TOO LONG since I've crossed the Atlantic.

mwop,
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@saramg Same - realized recently that the last international travel I did (other than GrumpyConf) was 2014...

sebastian, to php
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Thanks to @shivammathur, I can now (easily) use @derickr's bytecode disassembler on macOS:

https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-extensions/pull/3828

mwop,
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@derickr @sebastian @shivammathur You can laugh all you want, but the long tail of migrations is a thing, and it's larger than you likely want it. I'd rather that applications on those versions can continue to be tested, as that's the best way to ensure you can migrate eventually.

s_bergmann, to accessibility
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For years, I have used syntax highlighting for code examples in my presentation material.

Not once did I get the feedback that the syntax-highlighted code was hard to read. But now I read once or twice that using syntax highlighting for code examples in presentations is considered a bad practice.

Question to the experts of the : Should I avoid syntax highlighting for code examples in my presentations? If not, do you have recommendations for color palettes?

Thanks!

mwop,
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@s_bergmann I prefer syntax highlighting in examples as it helps provide context. Use something with high contrast, though, for folks with color blindness or issues differentiating colors with similar value. (I have gravitated to Solarized palettes for this reason.)

bagder, to apple
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still exists and discovered my post: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/03/23/0526257/apple-criticized-for-changing-the-macos-version-of-curl

mwop,
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@bagder I've actually had slashdot in my feed reader (whichever one I'm currently using) all along. While it's only tech-related news, I've always appreciated that they have human curated synopses.

Never visit to read the comments though...

mwop, to random
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Barely Spring in the northern hemisphere, and Charlie Brown has already been thwarted.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Anyway, on a Friday where I have made myself despair about my chosen industry, I am going to change things up. Give me answers and I will make up questions for them.
Call it Grumpy Jeopardy /ht @doppynl for the idea

mwop,
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@grmpyprogrammer Global state and singletons.

beausimensen, to random
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I can't believe something Evangelion-related was in theaters and I didn't know until after it happened.

mwop,
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@beausimensen My son and his friend went! (I've never watched any of it. I'm likely missing out, based on their report of the movie afterwards.)

ramsey, to random
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Today, we said goodbye to our good friend and the best dog we’ve ever had, Charlie Brown. He fought a long battle with cancer, and finally, it was too much pain for him to continue.

Now, he’s gone. No one else in the world will know the love and loyalty Charlie gave us. That was for us alone. We will never forget him.

mwop,
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@ramsey oh, Ben, I'm so sorry to hear that. 💔

flowcontrol, to random
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I just discovered that the Zend Yellow Pages (aka Zend Certified Engineer Directory) are gone 😞

Luckily I still have my original certificates with me 😌

https://www.zend.com/training/certification-directory-faq

Florian Engelhardt has successfully passed the Zend PHP Certification Exam on the 16th of February 2007

mwop,
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@flowcontrol Just as an FYI: you can request copies of your certificate and verification still from @zend . There was an email that went out last year when we shut it down. It (the yellow pages) was mostly being used for spam, unfortunately.

Look for more news on the cert front later this year...

mwop,
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@flowcontrol I think so. Let me know if you have difficulties!

sarah, to random
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I feel like I’m living in 1933 Germany.

Calling certain individuals “not people”? Threatening to round up a huge group in camps? Promising to weaponize government to go after adversaries? Threatening the rights of citizens just because you don’t like them?

Tell me I’m overreacting. Please. I want to be overreacting.

mwop,
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@sarah I'd like to say you're overreacting... but I honestly can't. It's a nightmare.

mwop, to random
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Had a literal coding shower moment this morning. A problem I ran into a couple weeks ago that I set aside because I couldn't identify a root cause. And for some reason, I started thinking on it as I stepped into the shower, and realized that everything I'd observed was consistent with resource depletion due to recursion.

Once I got to my computer, I tested my theory, and BINGO! that's what it was.

Time and space, folks: time and space make all problems shallow.

Skoop, to photoshop
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OK, so now: I can probably replace with The . Which open source project should I use to replace ?

mwop,
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@Skoop I've been using OpenShot for editing/splicing video and audio. (And OBS for recording.)

grmpyprogrammer, to animals
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An old man and his kittens

mwop,
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@grmpyprogrammer Amused and relieved to see I'm not the only one who has Birks as their house shoe. (I even have the same style and color... Though mine often leave the house in summer.)

mwop,
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@grmpyprogrammer They're the best. Have had some continuously since the early 90s. I've tried other sandals, but their support is unmatched. When I had plantar fasciitis a few years back, they were the only thing I could wear.

preinheimer, to random
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I don't really get the TikTok ban. How is what TikTok doing different than what Facebook/Instagram, X, YouTube, etc. are doing.

Is it just that it's China?

mwop,
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@preinheimer Sadly, yes. The real solution would be comprehensive data privacy laws, but nobody wants to actually roll up their sleeves and do that work.

ramsey, to random
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I just tried to sign into my Gravatar, and it sent me a verification link, which ended up creating a new account for my email address, which has none of my avatars stored on it. WTF?! I don’t even know how to recover from this. My email address hasn’t changed.

mwop,
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@grmpyprogrammer Same. Several, actually.

It's super weird.

mwop, to discworld
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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.

mwop,
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@LDJ Reading them aloud has been a pure delight. So many things you gloss over when reading to yourself that just spring to life when spoken.

I thought I loved the characters before; they feel fully real now.

Such a great writer.

mwop,
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@wolffzone Nice! I introduced our youngest via Carpet People! It was surprising how much of his voice was already present even in that early work.

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