The fediverse is nice people and great tech, with a marketing problem.

And I ended up waking up a couple hours early and could to fall back to sleep so it shall remain untested.

And an onboarding problem.

Train ride from Poznań to Zbąszynek, Poland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fxsgy9XiKo&t=3425

#trains #webcam #poland

I think someone didn’t do the research neded.

So, no matter how bad the PHP fallout proves to be, I have to concede that they *have* cleaned up their act quite a bit in recent years and these sorts of bugs out of PHP are much, much rarer than they used to be

Did you know that, when I was a fiery young programmer in my 20s, I ran a hate blog dedicated to the PHP manual and how bad, unreliable, and unhelpful it was? Here are some highlights:

Special snowflake not-actually-a-function isset() https://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/52082199266/unsettling

The notorious strcmp() footgun https://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/44634822304/i-am-so-comically-angry-right-now

When 1 equals 4096 https://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/33023415508/when-does-one-byte-equal-four-kilobytes

PBKDF API designed to trip you up https://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/66426423275/i-cant-spell-pbkdf

And, my favorite, a review of the complete original PHP 2.0 manual from the late 90s: https://phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com/post/65544023819/php-20-a-review-in-retrospect

(The picture of Espurr in that post links to a domain that used to play the Lavender Town theme. Please put on Lavender Town yourself for full effect)

All these posts are 12 to 15 years old and do not necessarily reflect the current state of either the documentation or the code. Gods, I hope they don't.

#php

BONG

it wont let me attach videos and stills at the same time.

@camille on no :(

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip at this point, the fact that she gets out every year makes me believe that it's an inside job by whatever record label she's signed to.

@ipg@wetdry.world

At least it's not power4

I wrote about this in my book Public Parts

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