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🖥️ Right. PHP 8.4 is out later in the month. Time to stop procrastinating and get https://caniphp.com/ updated!

Let’s see what’s new!!

🗒️ Also good, from @sarah:

“Developers all love to hate legacy code. It’s ugly, and it’s gritty, and it’s hard to work with. But do you know the one thing it has going for it? Most of the time, whether it’s beautiful or not, it works.

That’s right: legacy code in production is more valuable than the most beautiful, well-tested code sitting in a repository somewhere. It’s producing value today, rather than hope for tomorrow.”

@chris Pah. Those sloppy hosting infrastructure people? Get them to quality control some aerospace/avionics code in assembler and safety-critical Ada; get them to write a static analysis tool for a type-safe language… in a type-safe language. Then… THEN we can have a chat about whether or not my code is “up to par”! 😉

Oh heaven help my. New colleagues. I basically can’t review code without type information. My brain can not do it. And I have so many opinions about how you should write and structure code.

I’m kind and many comments are phrased as questions or marked as optional/style/nitpick. But even so. It’s got to be rough! 😬

@chris That's cool - they are BIG planes. Do you know what they are?

@chris Yeah. A clean break on several fronts.

Hope you get your words back!

Perhaps it’s not a bad thing though. Perhaps you’ve been busy doing active things?

@chris I’ve had this too. But I’ve had big home projects on the go that have sucked my time. That’s pretty much wrapped up now and I’m pining to get creating again.

The Verge article on the best printer in 2024 is just completely brilliant in so many ways.

And also kinda sad.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

I’m starting to mentor someone to get into web development.

I’m reminded of some really excellent resources that you may not know about:

- https://devdocs.io - multiple software développement references in one place. Also a PWA so works offline!
- Julia Evan’s excellent zines. The HTTP guide is a superb staring point for understanding how the web works under the hood. The debugging guide is excellent. https://wizardzines.com

A simple, web/cloud based, private key/value store. Like a fediverse but for personal data.

Is this possible? Does it exist?

I've mentioned this a few times here and it's always too hard to explain in short posts.

So here’s a long one.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/02/static-databases-for-static-sites-possible/

@chris My goodness. That's incredible! What if you can't pay? I just can't comprehend it.

Shut-The-Fridge Girl said it best: https://youtu.be/Kll-yYQwmuM