grmpyprogrammer

grmpyprogrammer, 20 hours ago to random

Some light reading for this weekend from @cate — my pre-order via Amazon came in (I hope they don’t rip you off on royalties for it Cate!)

grmpyprogrammer, 20 hours ago to random

@maccath Been going through the slides from your presentation at #phpday — lots of great examples to refactor my side projects towards

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

I find no irony in that coding in the shadow of ChatGepetto requires an even larger commitment to testing and debugging, but those skills aren’t valued in our industry. Just ship it and get promoted or bail before you have to fix your mistakes.

ghorwood, 1 day ago to random

let me get this straight: slack is going to scrape all our data and poison their relationship with their userbase so they can recommend emojis? emojis? really?

pdcawley, 1 day ago to random

Look, tinfoil dancing boy, you don't get to do a drop split unless you can get back up from it without using your hands. I don't make the rules, Prince does. #totp

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

“Die a disillusioned jetpack fan or live long enough to become the fraudster who cooked up the jetpack lie you despise."

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

Mini-me just messaged the family group chat that a customer at the dollar store she works at just asked her if they price-match items

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

The time to plan that sort of transition for me (based on age) was 10-15 years ago. I had grandparents who owned a farm and it seemed like a lot more work than what I do now. The trainwreck of tech is caused by a small group of greedy fucks who think their wealth will protect them from the future state of things. It won’t
https://phpc.social/@Crell/112456672790781399

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

Seeing that Slack is gonna slurp up all their customer’s data to train ChatGepetto systems and making you opt out via email is :chef’s kiss:

IRC never betrayed me like that

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

I have been asked this a few times: no, I was not impacted by the layoffs at Ziff-Davis this week. At this point of my career I have made the conscious decision to focus on the tasks I have been assigned, do what I think a “staff engineer” is supposed to do, and accept that the decision about how long I get to work somewhere is out of my hands. YMMV and I sympathize with folks who are unable to make the same grumpy choices.

grmpyprogrammer, 1 day ago to random

It’s Friday so once again, Ask Me Anything.

grmpyprogrammer, 2 days ago to random

What stage of capitalism is this?

It’s pretty bold to try and replace employees with volunteers…

grmpyprogrammer, 3 days ago to random

I’ve been binge-watching YouTube videos of “Karens” getting arrested by police (I used to watch COPS back in the day) and a few things jump out at me:

1. these encounters are likely the most stressful thing ever for these folks
2. most do not realize they live in a heavily-policed country due to very few past interactions with police
3. mental health issues go across all races and income levels
4. drug and alcohol use goes across all races and income levels

jrconlin, 2 days ago to random

Elon Musk is secretly pro-union.

Why do I say that?

Well, he's so focused on giving labor power he effectively forced them to strike against Tesla.

Truly, 8 dimensional Rochambeau going on there.

https://qz.com/elon-musk-tesla-supercharger-layoffs-executive-1851479107

preinheimer, 5 days ago to php

Hey PHP Folks, question for you!

Back in the early 2000s, I feel like there was two big PHP development methodologies.

The "Yahoo! System" where they did all their front end in PHP, and had a lot of built in extensions to handle their business logic.

The "Facebook System" that used PHP for everything.

Is anyone still using the Yahoo! system? Do they talk about it much?

#php

grmpyprogrammer, 4 days ago to random

How long until ChatGepetto starts including ads with it’s responses?

grmpyprogrammer, 4 days ago to random

“I never hit a man when he's down... I kick him, it's easier"

• Roddy Piper

grmpyprogrammer, 6 days ago to random

For all the talk about how “small towns are friendlier” it sure does suck that one of my neighbours has a floor fan I bought via Amazon. No point in asking because they don’t really like me due to my non-obsessive behaviour over my lawn. Cutting the lawn once a week is not enough apparently.

Courier says “package handed to resident” but Amazon has refunded me.