Notices by David Bisset (davidbisset@phpc.social)

'Self-host it' is not the answer

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

"Self-hosting requires a heck of a lot of privilege... I’m not saying “you shouldn’t self-host stuff”... I’m saying that you shouldn’t have to do it, and you shouldn’t feel bad or inferior (not that it really matters what others think) if you don’t self-host your own stuff." #selfhost #tech #webDev

When you leave display logs for debugging "on" in production.

#webdev #programming #memes

If anyone has experience w/ #Apple Watch and sharing "Health Alerts":

Daughter is having some heart issues. Going to the cardiologist but meantime I want to give her my old Apple Watch (series 5 but it works perfectly, even has decent battery). She has an iPhone.

Hoping that the heartbeat monitoring (when her heartbeat goes up to much) can signal to my phone. We can do the "Apple Health Connect" but i'm a little nervous since i've never seen this in person before.

#AppleWatch

Clever:

"I don't have #Spotify"

Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service.

https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/

https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify

#opensource #music

Before i shut this off (a little less $$$ paid to DigitalOcean) I wanted to share the only site that celebrated #WordPress 19th anniversary (not even the official WP did one - maybe focused on the 20th).

https://wp19.day/

Had everyone from @photomatt and @mikelittle and sponsors and the whole nine yards.

As a #developer sometimes you'll see #code comments like this. Often, you'll be the one writing it. #webdev #memes #programming

#CSS Masonry & CSS Grid

https://css-tricks.com/css-masonry-css-grid/

Two competing proposals to solve masonry in CSS. #webdev

@chris yes. better than right in front of the bus.

"Getting my daily #news from a dot matrix #printer

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/

#opensource #PHP

I respect people's opinions and experiences on #coding and #AI.

It's been my experience that AI (horrible general term, it's really Code Pilot in #VSCode ) has certainly helped me. Saved me a ton of time vs me trying to google something. Don't blindly trust - code still tested. Helps automate things and writes decent comments based on my existing code. 30+ yrs in coding and I find some tools used right to be good.

THAT being said, I still think I would pick up this book. #memes #programming

Client expectations vs client budget. #memes #webdev

Oh. Joy.

#AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/ai-defeats-traffic-image-captcha-in-another-triumph-of-machine-over-man/

I am old. #oldschool

Reportingly the ‘Success kid’ turned 18 today.

#memes

Uses #AI. Private. Local... I might try this!

"Selectric is a free #MacOS app and currently supports #Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Dropbox and #Slack. The app is completely private. We index and store all data on your Mac."

https://selectric.io

Client: "Well, sometimes we have to break accessibility on our site when it gets in the way of other users."

Me: 🤔

#webdev #memes #a11y

Heads up (but not too up) #WordPress 6.6.2

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/08/19/wordpress-6-6-2/

Company: "We've updated our Terms of Service and your privacy is now less private than it was before."

Me: 🤔

"People act like writing #code is the hard part of software. It is not. It never has been, it never will be."

"Writing code is the easiest part of #software #engineering, and it’s getting easier by the day. The hard parts are what you do with that code—operating it, understanding it, extending it, and governing it over its entire lifecycle."

#programming

https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you/?utm_campaign=so-blog&utm_content=gen-ai-build-eng-teams&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

#PHP is 29 years old today.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi/c/PyJ25gZ6z7A/m/M9FkTUVDfcwJ?pli=1

🎉

#Microsoft: "We have #Recall"

#Google: Hold My Beer.

"Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too"

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2358215/google-is-working-on-a-version-of-recall-too.html