Ben Ramsey

Coder, author, & speaker. PHP 8.1 & 8.2 release manager. ramsey/uuid maintainer. Open source developer. Senior Staff Engineer. Pronouns: he/him/his

“This guy seems to fundamentally misunderstand open source” — some rando on Hacker News

“Who is this guy?” — another rando on Hacker News

Co-admin of the https://phpc.social Mastodon server.

All original content in public posts © me & licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, unless otherwise specified. :cc: :ccby: :ccsa:

Website: https://ben.ramsey.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/ramsey
PHP: https://people.php.net/ramsey
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/@ben:ramsey.dev

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Last Notes

2024-08-19 03:48:47

In #PhpStorm, I started a docblock above a class named `MarkdownToHtmlConverter`. The class is fully written; all the logic is already in place, and PhpStorm prompted me to “Generate with AI Assistant” the text of the docblock, so I decided to give it a try. This is what it generated:
```
/**
* This is a symfony application.
* Symfony version is v7.1.3.
* App uses database "sqlite".
*/
```
I don’t understand how this is helpful for this class. Also, my DB is not SQLite.

2024-08-18 00:39:05

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We’ll be going there, too! We go every October.

2024-08-17 17:56:31

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It’s not a turn-based RPG.

2024-07-09 03:46:05

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I still have a few VHS tapes around here with our Buffy, Angel, and Star Trek: Enterprise recordings on them. We set up timers to record them all.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a VCR anymore to play the tapes. 🤣

2024-07-08 14:19:30

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Don’t they sell milk in bags in Canada?

2024-07-08 01:59:47

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I didn’t know Kool-Aid made these. In the US, these might be branded as CapriSun.

2024-07-03 04:05:53

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Agreed. Don’t use Brave.

2024-07-03 02:29:38

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I only found out about the new #Ladybird browser this morning, and I got excited about it. Why do dicks have to ruin everything?

2024-06-15 03:43:52

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You’ve got 19 years on me, and I feel this so much.
“Back in my day, we built entire businesses on a single VPS with mod_php and Apache, running a MySQL database on the same VPS.”

2024-06-14 20:14:06

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I think we were supposed to see, through the eyes of Qui-Gon Jinn, that the Jedi had lost their way in becoming that kind of galactic security force.

2024-06-14 00:52:54

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When I was recently job searching, I found job descriptions that mentioned they support diversity “of all kinds” to be a red flag.

2024-06-07 03:28:29

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🤬
That didn’t happen for us. I'm not sure whether it's because we're US-based or because we watched it within so many weeks of the debut, but I know we don't pay for the extra ad-free tier.

2024-05-30 17:18:25

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A humorous anecdote about these tickets:
I bought them for my wife, who was binge-watching Seinfeld last Fall. I assumed she would be interested. The other day, she laughed and said, “I hated that show. They’re all terrible humans, and I get that’s the point, but I watched mainly to learn all the cultural references I keep missing.” 🤣
So, we’re just going to enjoy the night out regardless of how he turns out.

2024-05-30 17:05:59

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I’m also not really trying to get out of it, but I’m prepared for cringe.
In December, my sister wanted to go see Adam Carolla, so I went along with her as company. Now, *that* was a mistake! 😬 (and I should’ve known better)

2024-05-30 17:03:39

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The tickets are through our local non-profit performing arts center, and they’re non-transferable.

2024-05-30 16:58:12

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I don’t remember exact price, but with fees and taxes, they were about $100 each.

2024-05-30 16:43:13

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I bought tickets to see him tonight in Nashville, months ago, before he decided to open his mouth about woke culture. So, now, I’m dreading the show.

2024-04-16 03:25:16

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To each their own. I think american 2 sounds most like a normal human being, and she sounds happy.

2024-04-16 03:20:56

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Siri American 2 is my favorite Siri voice.

2024-04-15 22:23:33

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I decided not to count my car, so I put “no.”

2024-04-12 18:46:18

I do not like the new beta terminal in the #JetBrains IDEs (i.e., #PhpStorm, etc.). It doesn’t seem to respect my Zsh configuration, and it’s slow.

2024-04-10 14:03:33

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

2024-04-06 01:14:11

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I just opened an issue on Shields.io for this. https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/10078

2024-04-06 00:58:32

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It looks like Shields.io is using an older version of the “follow” URL for Mastodon, though. The URL it uses was removed before Mastodon 4.0 was released: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19319/commits/f7a13998a24d5958a18a9907ad3a52f2eec63c6a#diff-9185eb9ca37cb2c8878e5006b357d404910be53f0089687b8fbb52be98296c61

2024-04-06 00:54:29

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And here’s one with your ID: https://img.shields.io/mastodon/follow/000011361?domain=https%3A%2F%2Fphpc.social&style=flat-square

2024-04-06 00:52:15

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This works for me:
https://img.shields.io/mastodon/follow/000000001?domain=https%3A%2F%2Fphpc.social&style=flat-square

2024-04-06 00:48:46

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I’ve not tried this yet, but did you put https :// phpc . social (without the spaces) as the `domain`?

2024-03-28 01:06:31

A friend was telling me about guidelines for developing and deploying new services in their company, and one of the guidelines is “new services must not use #PHP.”
I’m not making this up, and this isn’t hyperbole. They actually have this listed on their company documentation.

2024-03-21 19:51:55

Is there any way to get around this? I disabled Fediverse sharing because I wanted to do a screen recording of enabling it to share and show others how to do it, but now, I can’t re-enable it for 30 days! #Threads
https://media.phpc.social/media_attachments/files/112/135/419/487/258/046/original/16124d38235d9ec2.jpeg