Larry Garfield

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Anything worth doing well is worth teaching others to do well.

Author of Thinking Functionally in PHP, now on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/thinking-functionally-in-php

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2024-10-11 07:02:16

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@npub15te…2c9n My wife gave up at one hospital after 3 hours not seeing a doctor. Someone had been waiting 6 hours. At least 2 other hospitals I called said they had the same wait time. A 4th seems like it will be shorter, but she still hasn't been seen yet AFAIK.

2024-10-11 06:21:16

Four different hospitals in the area have ER wait times of over 3 hours. Three. Hours.
Anyone who defends the for-profit hellhole masquerading as a health care system gets a block, online and off.
I don't blame the medical staff, who have been decimated by insurance companies, Covid, and Covid deniers. I blame the for-profit system and those who support it. And every one of you fucking wastes of space that drove doctors out of the system to fuel your Covid misinfo campaign. Rot in hell.

2024-09-20 16:36:13

As my followers may have noted, I've had two major life events recently:
* I got laid off.
* My wife and I had our first child.
These are, of course, costly events. 😬 We have a cushion so I'm not panicking yet, but still, not great timing.
If anyone is able and inclined to help, the best option for now is via our Baby Registries. Especially partial contributions toward the larger ticket items.
https://my.babylist.com/baby-shayna-g
https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/shayna-garfield-september-2024-evanston/193F6I7T7V5H6
Our new daughter thanks you!

2024-09-17 20:20:51

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@npub1emn…nnem My response stands. Link?

2024-09-17 18:56:04

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@npub1emn…nnem Wat?

2024-09-14 06:55:02

Best practices are contextual.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices

2024-09-07 23:43:42

With NixOS, are tools like Terraform even needed anymore? Seems like it solves the same problem.

2024-09-07 00:26:37

Another day, another message that my data with a company I never heard of has been breached.
Until there's at least civil liability, if not criminal, for breaches, nothing is going to change. (Civil liability increases insurance costs for the company. That's probably more effective given how pathetic govt enforcement is of everything else.)

2024-09-07 00:14:21

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@npub1vll…ll92 I've been using Reveal.js for many years now, quite happily.

2024-09-06 14:44:15

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@npub1psy…pasy And there are still people that would call this "unskilled labor." Let's see them pull it off.

2024-09-06 13:12:14

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@npub158k…z7hl Uh, what? Enums have supported constants since they were introduced in 8.1. match() expressions came in 8.0. What version are you even talking about? 🙂

2024-09-04 15:55:01

When you say what a word "means", what do you mean by "mean?" It's actually not a trivial question.
https://peakd.com/language/@crell/bounded-vs-centered-sets

2024-09-04 15:45:10

Older parts of the #PHP stdlib are wild...
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-meta-tags.php

2024-09-03 20:56:59

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@npub1a0p…5fam Much the same here in the US.

2024-09-03 16:55:55

We need a government tax on electricity... based on its carbon generation. The more CO2 polluting the source, the higher the tax, and thus the higher the price.
No, I'm not the first to suggest it. No, it wouldn't get through our bought-and-paid-for Congress. But that would be the capitalist, market-based solution.
Force externalities into internalities, and the market will adapt accordingly.

2024-09-03 14:14:30

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@npub16tu…ga2v False. They are less relevant than skill, but not zero relevance.
Don't fall into the binary thinking trap.

2024-09-03 13:14:28

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@npub1ggt…xj59 What is JS doing wrong?

2024-09-02 23:06:58

I just casually wrote this #PHP
return array_values(array_filter(explode('/', substr($fullPath, strlen($this->logicalPath)))));
This is why we need a pipe operator in PHP. (And PFA.) Because that is asinine.

2024-09-01 21:26:27

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@npub1gj9…wshu Ah well. I guess I'll have to continue this thread With or Without You.

2024-09-01 21:15:53

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@npub1gj9…wshu I wonder how many U2 songs can be contextualized to food irony...

2024-09-01 17:19:17

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@npub1eaa…y0aq Uh, that's not something to be proud of. The people who want more oil aren't voting for Harris anyway.

2024-09-01 17:18:28

The grocery store is playing U2, "I still haven't found what I'm looking for."
Yes, irony can be pretty ironic at times...

2024-09-01 14:10:50

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@npub1z40…uwnt Examples that don't show the imports are the absolute bane of my existence. Along with libraries that use horribly generic class names...

2024-09-01 00:00:53

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@npub148h…ggmz Isn't that how imaginary numbers work graphically to begin with? They're rotational.

2024-08-31 14:50:05

As I have said many times, I am not really concerned about an LLM being able to do my job any time soon.
I am very concerned about greedy VCs or ignorant managers thinking an LLM can do my job already and screwing over me, my colleagues, and their company in the process.
Which is exactly what is happening right now.

2024-08-31 01:41:50

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@npub12hn…ln26 It's a sign you should be looking into composition instead of an Uber base class. :-) (Trite and tired comment, yes. But still true despite that.)

2024-08-30 21:05:08

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@npub1zz3…xkx8 Fullstack Developer: Someone who can do the work of 3 people (Design, React, some backend lang like PHP or Ruby), but only gets paid for being one person.

2024-08-30 17:38:56

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@npub1vll…ll92 Sounds like you want something Kafka-esque? (Pun intended.)
Produce JSON, dump into the stream, let workers in any language pull from the stream and do what they like.

2024-08-30 16:36:07

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@npub1g9q…7h4z The use case was "get me a list of all files, but not folders, in this directory tree, flattened into a single list, excluding this one file name anywhere it appears."

2024-08-30 03:47:45

Science! There are so many alternatives to fossil fuel these days. It's not even worth investing in fossil fuel. Even without global warming, its days are numbered.
https://youtu.be/ArQE3SB0kyM

2024-08-29 23:35:58

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@npub1g9q…7h4z Because you need it to recursively iterate a recursive iterator. Because PHP is silly like that.

2024-08-29 22:33:02

Free Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://peakd.com/programming/@crell/free-software-is-political

2024-08-29 21:10:59

I just unironically built a CallbackFilterIterator(CallbackFilterIterator(RecursiveIteratorIterator(RecurisveDirectoryIterator))).
PHP's iterators are powerful, but damn, they look so funky the way you have to handle recursion...

2024-08-28 18:50:18

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@npub1a9f…5e9j Follow #PHP. That's where all the cool kids post.

2024-08-28 03:49:19

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@npub1tp2…4l9u Yes you do. And the going rate seems to be around $30-50 US, though shipping of often not cheap depending on where you are.

2024-08-27 15:42:46

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@npub17pk…k57l I'm not sure that should be automated, really. There's case by case questions of whether it makes sense to switch a method to a property that likely require human intervention.

2024-08-27 15:41:13

https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/113/034/737/423/585/791/original/ff4027d46d8689b2.png

2024-08-25 15:24:45

The correct way to do disposable silverware at a Faire.
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/113/023/351/421/447/217/original/9f17693938cc9173.jpg

2024-08-25 01:36:06

The shop vac industry sets a worldwide record for lack of standardization and compatibility. It's truly remarkable how much od a trainwrecks it is. Way worse thsn anything in IT.

2024-08-24 17:09:46

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@npub1u3t…c6ug Peace in the mid-east requires the total elimination of Hamas, and the total elimination of the Netenyahu government.
Both actively stand in the way of peace.

2024-08-24 17:06:02

It's remarkable how one small feature can take 80% of the total development time...

2024-08-24 07:33:02

Bypassing #PHP visibility controls. Please don't do this often.
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/php-tricks-access-control-bypass

2024-08-24 01:12:19

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@npub10h9…g24v Coding out of spite has produced some of my better libraries...

2024-08-24 00:06:36

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@npub10h9…g24v LOL. Um, I'm sorry? :-)

2024-08-19 17:19:00

The state of generics and collections in #PHP:
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/08/19/state-of-generics-and-collections
(Please leave feedback on this thread on Internals: https://externals.io/message/125049)

2024-08-19 12:55:02

Best practices are contextual.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices

2024-08-18 14:53:16

I have no skin in this debate nor any particular connection to the #python community. But this is an interesting read of recent events.
I can verify none of it myself, but based on what I've seen from the python leadership as an outsider in the past, I am inclined to believe this version of the story.
https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

2024-08-18 14:12:50

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@npub1gjy…2frz Depends what it is you're finding painful. You can write ugly code in any language. Pretty code tends to require more elegant design.

2024-08-18 13:49:05

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@npub1a5h…eknt I assume you mean docblocks or attributes? Annotations are docblocks.

2024-08-17 15:48:47

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@npub19r6…ajsj The story of every OSS project..

2024-08-16 22:10:42

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@npub1rty…n9h4 It's possible. Examine the html output and see if something is unbalanced.
A common template trick is to have it print html comments as debug markers, so you know what template a given piece of markup came from.

2024-08-16 19:45:38

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@npub1rty…n9h4 That sounds like your html isn't balanced properly. You put a close div in the same template, right?

2024-08-16 18:16:09

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@npub1rty…n9h4 Define weird?
Make sure display errors is enabled, and/or check the server logs for error messages.

2024-08-16 17:57:26

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@npub1a0c…ssqd Our first.

2024-08-16 14:02:44

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Also, if anyone is so inclined, I have a mini-human arriving very soon who needs lots of supplies. 🙂
https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/shayna-garfield-september-2024-evanston/193F6I7T7V5H6
https://www.babylist.com/list/baby-shayna-g

2024-08-16 01:42:51

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@npub1a62…00t6 If you don't know if a variable could be null, the problem is your code, not the API. Modern PHP is a strongly typed language.

2024-08-15 22:42:39

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@npub1uaw…r2vh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJpXhVD18-c

2024-08-15 22:38:11

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@npub1uaw…r2vh The only thing #AGPL doesn't allow you to do is violate your users' rights.

2024-08-15 21:34:14

Some couples/friend groups practice playful ribbing.
More of us need to practice playful complementing.

2024-08-15 19:45:41

Why we picked #AGPL:
https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/agpl
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

2024-08-15 12:52:29

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@npub1m2g…w04w It's one of the big PHP success stories. I haven't looked at its code, though.

2024-08-14 22:17:17

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@npub1m2g…w04w Yes it it, and not even close. PHP's development process is the exact opposite of what Brooks says large projects should have. Consciously and deliberately so.

2024-08-14 14:12:24

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@npub1a0c…ssqd Traits don't exist at runtime, so instanceof wouldn't even make sense. 🙂
Now, interfaces with default methods, now we're talking.

2024-08-14 13:37:37

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@npub153l…lplp I would say so, yes.
I do mostly "functionalish OOP" these days myself.
(It's written for 7.4, but 90% of it is still valid. Just we have real enums now.)

2024-08-14 13:35:48

The other big lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXbFWgds-E8

2024-08-14 10:00:02

Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functionally-in-php

2024-08-14 05:10:07

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@npub1tgu…w2vd What strange times we live in when a blue collar organization is nearly quoting Karl Marx. I kinda dig it weird as it is.
#unionstrong

2024-08-13 16:04:00

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@npub1hy2…4neg On, the run panel, not the debug panel! Found it. Thank you!!!

2024-08-13 15:54:04

Well this is new. In #PHPStorm now, every time I save a file, it tries to rerun a specific test. Why? No clue. But I have a breakpoint in that test, which means Xdebug catches on it. I have stopped the debugger, and it keeps doing it every time.
Why in the hell is this happening, and how in the hell do I make it stop?

2024-08-12 19:06:19

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@npub1y7c…3dsr Ah. Like most OOP languages, if you're not using an autocomplete you're working on hard mode. I know there are pretty standard vim Config for php, but I've never used them as I don't vim.

2024-08-12 13:56:10

The truth of the Monkey-Ladder experiment:
https://factschology.com/factschology-articles-podcast/monkey-ladder-experiment-truth

2024-08-11 15:16:35

I fear I am making this way more complicated than it needs to be for the sake of an edge case feature...
#PHP #Programming

2024-08-11 01:14:17

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@npub1yeu…dxcx Unless you're in the app, in which case it only gives you the shortened version.
Is there a technical reason the preview cannot be extracted from the shortened URL?

2024-08-09 16:40:04

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@npub1wq2…u5qg As I said. Amazingly American kind of silly. (Or stupid, as the case may be.)

2024-08-09 15:27:44

This is such an amazingly American kind of silly...
https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/aug/05/senate-swoops-in-centuries-late-to-name-bald-eagle-national-bird/

2024-08-09 14:08:00

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@npub13kk…a6gx I've used it to great effect many times. Great boilerplate reduction.

2024-08-09 04:00:02

Advanced PHPUnit Data Provider shenanigans. #PHP
Part 1: https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/fun-with-phpunit-data-providers
Part 2: https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/advanced-phpunit-shenanigans

2024-08-08 19:42:47

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@npub1wk4…tzyd What tools are you using? Websockets should be pretty solid with ReactPHP these days...

2024-08-08 16:40:11

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@npub1qdf…wn0r SCIENCE!!!
This is why science funding is important people!

2024-08-08 16:35:31

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@npub129h…y2hs This. Exactly this. All of this.

2024-08-08 00:08:03

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@npub1ttz…5nu3 For this example, it's fair to assume that everyone is aware of everyone's situation. (Standard procedure for philosophical razor questions like this: KISS.)

2024-08-07 19:50:08

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@npub1f9e…eqm6 Does it work outside Laravel?

2024-08-07 15:57:40

Scenario: There is a village. It's had a famine and food is scarce. There is one farmer on the edge of town with a large, full grainery.
He owns it outright, and came by it legally and ethically.
He decides to burn the grainery down to set a record for largest bonfire.
Remeber, it's fairly and ethically his.
Is his action moral or immoral? Ethical or not? Right or wrong?
How you answer this question says a lot about your character and ethics.
#ethics #thoughtexperiment #philosophy

2024-08-07 15:47:44

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@npub13kk…a6gx There are likely use cases for all of those. Depends on many details too detailed for 500 characters. :-)

2024-08-07 13:16:11

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@npub1s3g…gjfq O'rly? Got a link?

2024-08-07 02:19:58

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@npub1n3h…kl2z That is what I'm seeing as well. Especially in PHP. Companies with the budgets to pay for Staff+ level engineers are all either Java or C#.

2024-08-06 20:26:52

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@npub10rh…6hem That much UV is probably bad for you. :-) You want LED bulbs labeled "daylight", with a color of over 5000K.

2024-08-06 20:01:08

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@npub10rh…6hem Daylight bulbs. Lots of daylight bulbs.

2024-08-06 16:25:10

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@npub1tp2…4l9u If I don't have a debug config, it tries to run it on localhost rather than the docker container. (Where I don't have Xdebug installed, obviously.)

2024-08-06 15:35:36

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@npub1tp2…4l9u mode is set correctly. client is localhost:9000. discover_client_host is On. idekey is unset.
Looks correct, so I suspect a #PHPStorm side issue.

2024-08-06 15:31:45

Has anyone used phpdocker.io and gotten #Xdebug working from the CLI? I managed to make it work via web with their instructions, but I still can't get it to work when runnning PHPUnit.
#PHP

2024-08-06 14:37:23

And that's me back on the job market.
If anyone is looking for a 25 year #PHP veteran who now has some #Kotlin experience, with strong architecture, design mentorship, public speaking, and writing skills, have I got a candidate for you!
#LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-garfield/
Personal site: https://www.garfieldtech.com/
#FediHire #GetFediHired

2024-08-05 04:47:54

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@npub1n3h…kl2z Dare I ask who you're referring to?

2024-08-03 16:38:42

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@npub15r6…dsh3 I haven't benchmarked in a while, it I'm not aware of any changes in the engine that would change the basic relationship.

2024-08-03 06:02:17

8 alternatives to finally replace plastic.
https://youtu.be/E-cnoSAaUa8

2024-08-02 20:37:54

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@npub153l…lplp The "add a role" section has all kinds of social media options, but not Mastodon?

2024-08-02 20:17:09

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for the conservatives in my timeline...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XYn5t0tuuAk

2024-08-02 19:55:46

Former Conservative Evangelical voter explains what changed her mind.
If only more people (of every political persuasion) had this level of self-awareness.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cJdG8DAqkKI

2024-08-02 15:38:19

The Internet of cat slop.
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-07-19-internet-of-cat-slop/
#LLM #AI

2024-08-02 15:20:19

I am once again reminded how much I hate nulls.
#PHP