First of his name, coder of #PHP applications ๐ , guitar player ๐ธ , rocker of karaoke ๐ค, loves an irish accent โ๏ธ
Fan of #StarTrek#Marvel and #Yankees
i wonder - what percentage of @Vivaldi employees listen to Vivaldiโs classical music songs? Is it an employee requirement? Are they skewing Spotifyโs statistics? Enquiring minds want to know๐
As I prepare my Tek talks โ โShell Scriptung for PHP Developersโ and โBetter Dotfilesโ โ are there specific issues/aspects youโd like me to cover?
iโm a mac user, and Im experimenting with Linux distros using Virtual Box. Manjaro KDE seems pretty good, and itโs running Plasma 5.27. I want to try Plasma 6 โ So I downloaded KDE Neon after the megarelease. it tries to run, but it doesnโt complete. It gets stuck on a black screen inside Virtual Box. Is there a known issue with KDE Neon in Virtual Box?
@skrzatu@syntaxseed@b0rk i hate resolving conflicts on the CLI too. If the conflicts are simple enough, Iโll just edit them directly with Vim. Otherwise, a good GUI diff/merge tool is key. as a Mac user, Kaleidoscope has been awesome for this.
@mborus the thing about pushd is you have remember to call it. i have a
bash function i named cdls (because i often cd inro a dir and list its contents) that helps me .
cd โ$1โ && ls
becomes
pushd โ$1โ && ls
Since this is my default way of cdโing, any directories i cd into are remembered
@mborus striving for a minimal, default experience is admirable. The thing is though is that you create enough of these tricks, and they have to live somewhere . my cdls function lives in my ~/.bashrc . you can recreate it on each machine you use. eventually you need to create a dotfiles repo so you can copy it to any machine you use.
if youโre a vim fan, put
set -o vi
in your ~/.bashrc to navigate the command line like in vim
@ellie my advice is to learn the command line before actually learning to code. . The CLI plays such a big part of developer tools, and environment config, that not knowing the command line impedes the coding experience.
Itโs also a good litmus test for the development/debugging temperament
I'm so used to legacy projects where structuring it properly and adding tools and best practices is a mission impossible without a revolution, that I'm looking around for a good #opensource#PHP project where I can see things done well. Do you know any? I recently saw "/kbin" repo and I liked it so far, not that I've dug deep. I may event try to contribute a bit (as scarce as my free time is anyways).
@ramsey@chriscoyier I did 32. My wallet got drenched and i was attempting to dry it out. The burning leather smell was awful, and the RFID blocking insert didnโt help ๐คช
I just landed back in NYC after two weeks in California, juggling many, many totally different projects. Meeting in person with many different teams. All of it working to make the web better.
Iโm clearer than ever that privacy is incredibly important. A fundamental human right thatโs deeply at risk. Iโve worked on the web for decades. I donโt like watching it be a machine for vacuuming up our personal lives & selling us. No thank you.
Iโm glad to get to battle against such a future.
Show idea โ Star Trek: Collective. Itโs an origin story โฆ of the Borg! It starts in a world a little more advanced than our own - by a hundred years or so. They have space travel . This would probably be 500-700 years before TNG.. It starts with a robot workforce. And bringing an AI online to manage it for asteroid mining . Thereโs some parallels to Caprica, but itโs all StarTrek
@ramsey@JosephLeedy thats due to my plot description too generic at the moment. i only just realized i want a show about the borg. it needs some elaboration. i want to know how the collective came to be. why a queen? why are borg ships cubes? Most importantly- what kind of society would create the borg? It wonโt be by a billionaire technologist like Caprica
My kid, a computer science major, said that the way programming is taught is "too capitalist" because it emphasizes efficiency and time saving over everything else, and I haven't stopped thinking about it.
@katykaty@ben I disagree. Programming is about problem solving and automating away the monotonous and minutiae, so you focus on living your best life. When combined with Open Source software, its about having confidence in the software you use to manage your life
im listening to Pandora for some morning music, per usual, to get me going. In the song โGhost of my Hometownโ by The Strike, when theyโre playing the verse of a song, It reminds me if The Police! The singer, in particular, reminds me of Sting. Then, they sing the chorus and The Strike sound like themselves again
Today, I was cut in layoffs. Iโm so gutted because I loved this company, & my team was the best; Iโll miss my team most.
Now, as I look ahead, Iโm searching for a staff/principal role where I can help other developers level-up through mentoring, tooling/infra, architecture, & improving DX. Iโd love to work with a company contributing to open source & even to the #PHP programming language itself.
Update (27 Feb 2024): Thanks, everyone! Iโve accepted an offer. Please see update in thread below.
