jmichaelward

jmichaelward, 5 days ago to random

Just found out Steve Albini has passed. Absolutely gutted.

jmichaelward, 14 days ago to random

Definitely didn’t miss my downstairs neighbor yelling loudly multiple times a day while I was in Chicago.

jmichaelward, 15 days ago to random

Home! I had a wonderful time in Chicago but boy oh boy does it feel good to be back.

davidbisset, 17 days ago to memes

I somehow got a 35 score. #memes

jmichaelward, 18 days ago to random

The #[AllowDynamicProperties] attribute is going to be alllllll over WordPress core soon. @Crell #phptek

jmichaelward, 18 days ago to random

@stevegrunwell giving a shout-out to @derickr about Xdebug in his Technical Debt talk makes me realize I've been convincing people to use it for step debugging for almost a decade. #phptek

jmichaelward, 19 days ago to random

Running around like a chicken in a detached HEAD state. @vanamerongen #phptek

jmichaelward, 19 days ago to random

Separating reads from writes and having smaller controllers that are easier to follow seems like an excellent case for CQRS. A lot of code out there is trying to do way too much, so I'm all for breaking things down into smaller responsibilities. @grmpyprogrammer #phptek

jmichaelward, 19 days ago to random

@grmpyprogrammer talking about "the blurry shape of what code should look like" takes me back, once again, to John Kary's excellent talk, "Rethinking Loops", from way back at Midwest PHP 2016. There's no presentation that's had a bigger impact on my career. https://johnkary.net/slides/loops/midwest-php-2016/#/

#phptek

jmichaelward, 20 days ago to random

There’s no substitute for an in-person conference. I’m having the best time. #phptek

jmichaelward, 20 days ago to random

Kevin Casey’s talk is reminding me that I still haven’t seen any presentations about chaos engineering in the PHP space. Kevin’s session was about mitigating system failures and chaos engineering is all about purposefully introducing failures to test systems resiliency. Casey Rosenthal from Verica (and formerly of Netflix) wrote a book on the topic. #phptek

jmichaelward, 22 days ago to random

Chicago! I live here now (for 7 nights). Can’t wait to hang out. #phptek

ramsey, 24 days ago to php

Who will I see at #PHPTek next week? I’m giving a keynote on Thursday, and I’m super nervous. It’s only the second keynote I’ve ever given, and the first one was over 10 years ago. 😬😰 #PHP

jmichaelward, 24 days ago to random

Sometimes it snows in April

chris, 28 days ago to random

I no longer have a mortgage.

jmichaelward, 1 month ago to random

I’m getting good recommendations from my friends about cool things to do in Chicago but so far I’m most looking forward to going to Logan Arcade.

jmichaelward, 1 month ago to random

When the “service fee” for two concert tickets is almost the cost of a third ticket. 😡😡

jmichaelward, 1 month ago to random

It’s been three months since I have subscribed to any streaming video platform. I’ve watched a few movies on Plex and from the library, but I otherwise don’t miss it for the most part. I watched 1/2 of an SNL re-run on Saturday broadcast with commercials and it was fine.

I cancelled my Xbox Premium on the 22nd, too. Just don’t need or use any of it.

Josh412, 2 months ago to random

I wanted some retro looking key caps, and key caps that were not black, and the leaf caps on these keys got me. I'm excited about these keys, going to be real cute.

jmichaelward, 2 months ago to random

Today is the last Sunday of my sabbatical. And for that matter, tomorrow is the final overall day of my sabbatical.

On Tuesday, I'm joining the team over at Ziff Davis Shopping, where I'll have the opportunity to work directly with so many people I've long admired from the PHP community and finally (finally!) attain my years-long goal of working outside of the WordPress ecosystem. To say that I am giddy with excitement is to be a master of understatement.

jmichaelward, 3 months ago to random

TFW the company swag for your new job arrives...