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jmichaelward

@jmichaelward@phpc.social

J is for Genius.

Software engineer who likes #BoardGames, #Cycling, #Knitting, #Drawing, #Drumming, and #BetterCallSaul. Big #OxfordComma fan. Self-appointed taproom crawl organizer for the #PHP and #WordPress communities. #BCO dumb-dumb.

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Hey did anyone else realize that streaming was briefly successful because people want to legitimately pay for access to content but it’s failing now because capitalism insists on milking every dollar out of it?

What if companies could simply make money without having to make infinitely more money each and every quarter?

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

jmichaelward, to wordpress
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New NASA site is live: https://www.nasa.gov/

I know several folks involved in the development of this, and couldn't be more proud of the work they put into it. It looks and functions great. Built on to rankle the haters.

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What if it turns out we are the only life in the galaxy and this is how we treat ourselves?

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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

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@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.

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I'm about 1/6 of the way through "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell, and it just feels like a book full of people who love to say "utilize" when they could just say "use" instead.

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

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If you think you’re not a disgusting person you probably haven’t cleaned your computer peripherals lately.

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@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/#/

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Today is the last day of Reddit's open API, and the last day of one of my longest-used apps, BaconReader. RIP to one of the greats, it was my primary mode of viewing the site.

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

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This is not the colour a beer should have. It was remarkably tasty though.

jmichaelward,
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@derickr Hey you found a can of Slurm!

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

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    jmichaelward,
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    @chris I’m just starting the process of assuming mine so I’ll take those feelings over from you.

    jmichaelward,
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    @chris Heck yeah! Now all those anxious feelings can just slip away. Congrats!

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    @chris Same place! Just without my former partner.

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    Sometimes it snows in April

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

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

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    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.

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    Just found out Steve Albini has passed. Absolutely gutted.

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    Taking my first day off tomorrow since starting my new job back mid-February. No travel planned or anything, just a good old fashioned long holiday weekend. Some well-needed R&R to recharge and get ready to dig in some more after I get back.

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    I was today years old when I learned that my father has a brother.

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    @chris No importance, really. He’s the son of my grandpa whom I’ve only met one time in my life when I was very little.

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