ramsey

ramsey, 11 months ago to random

Folks, get off Twitter. I don’t care where you go, be it Bluesky or the Fediverse, but leave Twitter.

Your continued involvement on Twitter supports this.

ramsey, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to php

Today, I was cut in layoffs. I’m so gutted because I loved this company, & my team was the best; I’ll miss my team most.

Now, as I look ahead, I’m searching for a staff/principal role where I can help other developers level-up through mentoring, tooling/infra, architecture, & improving DX. I’d love to work with a company contributing to open source & even to the #PHP programming language itself.

Update (27 Feb 2024): Thanks, everyone! I’ve accepted an offer. Please see update in thread below.

ramsey, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to php

“Ever since #PHP 7 came out, and with the improvements in the language since then—particularly around performance—PHP outshines basically every other application stack on the web. So, if you’re worried about performance and you’re worried about developer productivity, you should be choosing PHP.”

— Matthew Weier O’Phinney ( @mwop ), “The 2024 State of PHP Development,” Zend by Perforce ( @zend )

ramsey, 3 months ago to random

This whole job-search experience has left me quite jaded and cynical. I don’t think I’ll look at my open source contributions the same way again. I’ve never contributed for the sake of putting it on my resume, but I now know for certain that absolutely no one cares about your open source contributions. Managers and engineers will use as much open source as they can to do their work, but they have absolutely no care about who makes it or how it comes to be. It’s all magical, free labor to them.

ramsey, 1 month ago to random

OH: “A lot of the stuff that Python gets praised for being fast at, PHP now outperforms Python at doing, but it’s a story we’re not really telling. We should be telling that story.” #PHPTek #HallwayTrack #PHP

ramsey, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to php

The latest issue of @phparch magazine is out. I still hear from many folks who aren’t aware of this magazine or the books, training, conferences, podcasts, etc. they produce, so consider this your intro to their ecosystem of content.

Check it out!

https://www.phparch.com/magazine/2024/03/2024-03-world-community/

#PHP

ramsey, 8 months ago to php

This is a really great overview of the current state of #PHP from @krinkle: “An Internet of PHP.” https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/an-internet-of-php/

ramsey, 8 months ago to php

This open source #PHP-based #podcast hosting platform is Fediverse-enabled. If you use it to host and publish your postcast, listeners on Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms can follow your podcast and get updates delivered right to their home feeds. Check it out! @Castopod

ramsey, 11 months ago to php

So much of the #PHP community relies on @shivammathur’s work, whether you’re using setup-php with GitHub Actions or his Homebrew tap for builds of PHP 5.6 through 8.3-dev. What he does is no small feat, and it helps the rest of us get our jobs done.

Please consider sponsoring him on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/shivammathur

If your company uses setup-php, get them to sponsor!

ramsey, 6 months ago to php

Most folks don’t seem to realize how gravely under-resourced and under-funded the #PHP project is.

For a technology that powers 77% of the web and has very little corporate backing, it's a wonder the project makes any headway at all.

At times, it almost feels like the industry is doing this on purpose to choke out the language.

ramsey, 1 month ago to random

Open source development is a pretty good argument for implementing UBI.

ramsey, 7 months ago to php

Look, I wrote an essay about why ramsey/uuid uses final. If you want to change that, it’s on you. #PHP

https://uuid.ramsey.dev/en/stable/faq.html#why-does-ramsey-uuid-use-final

ramsey, 4 months ago to random

Do I know any software engineers who work at at Chess.com?

LinkedIn says I don’t, but maybe I’m connected to someone here who works there. If so, please DM me. I have some questions about a job posting, and maybe you can help.

ramsey, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Hey, everyone! I’m giving a keynote at @phptek in Chicago in April. I’m pretty excited about it, and I’d love to see you there.

Today is the last day for the Early Bird Discount, but you can get an even deeper discount by using my super-special speaker discount link: https://ti.to/phptek/phptek-2024/discount/speaker-Ramsey

That means you have to buy today to get the tickets at their lowest price. 🙂

For more info, see https://tek.phparch.com.

I hope I see you there!

#PHP #PHPTek

ramsey, 11 months ago to php

On this 28th birthday of #PHP, it’s also release day! :php: :php8: :elephpant_run:

📣 Announcing the immediate availability of:

• PHP 8.2.7
• PHP 8.1.20
• PHP 8.0.29

‼️ These are SECURITY releases. We encourage you to upgrade to these versions.

📝 Change Log: https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php

🎁 Source downloads: https://www.php.net/downloads

:windows: Windows downloads: https://windows.php.net/download/

ramsey, 1 year ago to php

#PHPTek just opened up the ability to get virtual passes to next week’s conference, so if you can’t make it in-person, you can still watch the sessions.

You can get your virtual pass and watch the live stream of the conference at https://phptek.tv

Tickets for the in-person event are still on sale, too. I hope to see you there! https://tek.phparch.com

#PHP

ramsey, 1 year ago to php

I decided to play around with the AT Protocol, so I put together a very rough & very early #PHP library to play around with the concepts.

If you're interested, check it out, & I'd love to have others contribute to round it out and make it full-featured.

Ultimately, I’d love this library to be a starting point for working on some #ActivityPub / #ATProtocol bridging.

https://github.com/socialweb-php/atproto

ramsey, 4 months ago to php

Someone wrote a #PHP interpreter in #Erlang https://github.com/bragful/ephp

ramsey, 3 months ago to random

Question for hiring managers…

I think my ADHD holds me back from being able to perform well during technical interviews. I’ve never requested accommodation, though.

If a candidate were to request accommodation for neurodivergence, what are some reasonable accommodations you might provide such a candidate?

ramsey, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Nashville

If anyone is interested in a hybrid software engineering role in #Nashville, here’s a #PHP / #Laravel role with a good, local company, Bernard Health.

Edit: I removed the word “remote” from “remote-hybrid,” since this was confusing to some. This is a remote hybrid position, meaning it requires some days in the office each week.

https://jobs.bernieportal.com/d8c2c017 #jobs #FediHired

ramsey, 5 months ago to opensource

I’m very excited to announce I’ll be speaking at @phptek in 2024!

I’ll be leading a tutorial on building #Composer packages, and I’m giving a keynote on #OpenSource and contributing to #PHP.

Tickets are still on sale at their cheapest prices, so please get them now before they post the schedule. That's when the price goes up! https://tek.phparch.com

#PHPTek

ramsey, 1 month ago to php

Ryan is one of my favorite persons in the #PHP community. I cannot imagine what he and his family must be going through. They face expensive medical bills and more ahead. If you can help financially, please do so.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ryans-brain-cancer-battle

ramsey, 1 month ago to drupal

Let’s not forget #Drupal’s future depends on a healthy ecosystem for #PHP. When we have discussions about the future of Drupal or #WordPress or any other project that depends on PHP, we shouldn’t forget to also discuss how we can ensure a future for the programming language that powers these. https://mastodon.social/@palantir/112292234589621144

ramsey, 11 days ago to random

It’s interesting to note that many of the AI suggestions for PHP code (in IDEs) use older syntax and practices, such as using a string for the fully-qualified class name, instead of ClassName::class, which is the modern and generally-accepted best practice today.

ramsey, 1 month ago to random

“First of all, the world owes Andres unlimited free beer. He just saved everybody’s arse in his spare time. I am not joking.”

https://doublepulsar.com/inside-the-failed-attempt-to-backdoor-ssh-globally-that-got-caught-by-chance-bbfe628fafdd