🇺🇦🇵🇸 Anna Filina

Wow PHPStorm got so bad that at work, renaming any variable simply deletes every other occurrence without showing the rename popup. Good job with all that goddamn slop. I don't even have the mental energy to file a bug report. I really hope that JetBrains bankrupts when the bubble bursts or even before. People need to connect actions to consequences at some point. We need plenty of examples so others might learn.

Whoever is massively spamming the phpc.tv registration and trying to game our anti-spam measures: I hope you step barefoot on a d4 every 5 minutes for the rest of your life.

If I have to review another line of unverified slop code based on hallucinated requirements, I might just go insane.

How the US almost started a war with China. "AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster" https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

Do you have a person site and publish only human-made content? Join the Human-Made Webring. https://human-made.site/

Those who value speed over quality will inevitably see quality drop. LLMs bring speed that makes reviews, design and just *thinking* about what you're doing very slow in comparison to the code generation. Therefore, you'll take shortcuts to keep up. Therefore, quality will drop. Guardrails discussions are a red herring. You want quality, but the biggest bottleneck was always the thinking, and the many decisions that you made along the way. Now you delegate these decisions to chance.

I already knew I was voting for them, but didn't expect to be *this* aligned with their policies. Anyway, try for yourself: https://votecompass.cbc.ca

If you ask most LLMs to give you a random number between 1 and 30, it will give you 17, then 23. That is until they patch for this specific question. 1.5 trillion dollars well spent. https://isaiprofitable.com/

What's so hard to understand about "I don't feel safe traveling to that country"? I was detained twice already and had my passport taken away for the duration. People have different circumstances, past experiences, and risk tolerance. You'd think that such s conversation would take all of 5 seconds. You don't have a nut allergy? Enjoy your Snickers. Don't try to convince someone with an allergy to take a bite.

Great, now I have to deprogram my kid because those goddamn LLM boosters told her it's perfectly valid to seek medical advice from that thing. Smashing data centers doesn't sound so radical anymore.

I made the decision to write a unit test at a higher level to avoid changing if the API between the component's classes change. This decision paid off like 10 minutes later.

Right-wing people in my circles aren't only egotistical, but they also seem to not understand how anything works. Not the human body, not the economy, not ecology, no knowledge of history, and will even deny the existence of clearly spelled out laws even after being shown them. I'm not saying that one has to be devoid of knowledge and reasoning abilities to be right-wing, but there's definitely a strong correlation in the observed sample.

I think I found my new favorite colony sim. The roguelite elements work well with this genre. It's what was missing for me in the other games: shorter games (a few hours each) with more variation between runs, and a long meta-progression. It's incredibly polished and at a 75% discount, it's pretty cheap too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336490/Against_the_Storm/

"A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation by James Titcumb" https://phpc.tv/w/oEVucF3CfcL2Qo23yNytU1

The other day at work, we optimized a SQL query something like 300 times. I worked for a startup where I optimized their home page to be about 10 times faster. It's not really that hard, you end up learning things, and you make things better for users and the planet. I know the current hype is wiping the climate savings, but it's not a reason to give up.

Oh great, JetBrains quality keeps going down the drain. Some recent version wiped the entire workspace of 4 different engineers. Now DataGrip is starting to drop data sources for everyone. What a frigging disaster.

There is no limit to human creativity. For example, it's only 10am on a Sunday and I already experienced 3 distinct and creative ways in which a site can fuck up MFA.

Working on a side project (video game) and TDD-ing some domain objects that I thought would take me half a day. Then 15 lines of code later "oh, that's all it really needs to do". I love the practices I follow. It makes seemingly big and complicated things almost absurdly simple.

"CAPTCHA hell" https://youtu.be/mP1Uf-ujHNs?si=6_3gVt7n8A8Z8G9c

Donated to "Support the mental health of the Kyiv Independent's team" https://kyivindependent.com/crowdfunding/support-the-mental-health-of-the-kyiv-independents-team/

Not sure why, but YouTube filtered out chat messages mentioning https://phpc.tv from at least 2 people. It's not like we're a threat. Not yet anyway. Live streams on https://phpc.tv are quite cozy. Thanks for those who joined. Let's do this again.

No, I will not install you app. In the browser, I can turn off ads, trackers, can control permissions much more reliably and can choose to never worry about push notifications. Plus, apps are not even faster than the web version.

The same person treats everyone around them like their personal slave. I've seen them using guilt as a way to coerce (unpaid) people to work 12 hours in a single day and delay giving them food. Then talk shit about them behind their backs.

Please remember to argue the points people made, not points you made up because you either didn't read or because you wanted to discuss an entirely different topic. Sometimes conversations can lead into other topics and that ok, but test the waters first. Don't assume people have the mental energy to go into an entirely different direction of someone else's choosing.

I'm now self-hosting Grafana + Prometheus for my monitoring needs. That saves so much money. They're quite overpriced at 19 USD per month for smaller customers. It's almost as much as I pay to store and stream terabytes of video. I've been really optimizing the cost of operating phpc.tv

Oldest kid getting a tour of the young one's incredible Minecraft creations: "When she learns about redstone, we'll lose her".

I wanted to get a SkillShare subscription for a month so my kid could learn some stuff. Apparently they only offer annual subscriptions now, and the price almost made me fall out of my chair. How are they still in business?! Who in their right mind pay this much in this economy?

Love the irony of a course on workslop has slop closed captioning.

Just shaved over 16 minutes off a pipeline by baking installs and docker pulls into the base image of the test runner, so it doesn't have to do it in the pipeline. That's 16 minutes where it wasn't even running any tests. Just overhead.

"You think you want to play classic WoW but you don't." 250K people apparently disagree. It's almost like players know what they want.

I could not have explained it better myself. Recommended reading. https://chaos.social/@kore/116922703814159584

Mentioned The Matrix at work. "That 30-year-old movie?" It's only been 27 years, but yeah, I earned my grey hair.

Ah yes, a 10-step form with dozens of fields per page, with entire page resetting after you validate by pressing the next button. So if you don't know the validation rules upfront, have fun retyping everything a few times. I should have known when I saw a marquee tag on the home page.

One of our past volunteers in Ukraine is battling cancer, while simultaneously raising, on her own, a kid who has diabetes. Please help with medication expenses: https://gofund.me/9ac16a3bd

My son joined us for dinner tonight. We live in different cities so we don't get to do it as often as we'd like.

They should have exited russia back when everyone was telling them. That's what being apolitical gets you. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nestle-auchan-putin-db90782aa5510cef0eeba61ef8969ab5

This time, I submitted phpc.tv expenses in my home currency (CAD). I hope it will be accepted. Last time, I noticed that OpenCollective was messing up the exchange rate so badly that I got 27% less than the expenses I incurred. This translates to ~$74 per month, or $888 per year out of my own pocket, *despite* being supported by the community. That made no sense to me.

Timeline cleanser.

Old but gold. "when xunit testing began in the 90's we made no attempt to go solitary unless communicating with the collaborators was awkward" "the real point is that your test suites should run fast enough that you're not discouraged from running them frequently enough" https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

My cats keep finding the most inconvenient places to lie down.

Natasha is on the record board! She needed to climb the wall in under 14s. She did it in 12.75s.

@jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com @manchuck@phpc.social I have a slide deck on this topic :) The developer pipeline has been drying up even before we started yelling this from rooftops. https://speakerdeck.com/afilina/you-dont-need-more-developers

@Synchro@phpc.social Is this the idea of e-mail confirmation in general, or is it because this particular service doesn't need your e-mail to begin with? Asking because Russians keep signing me up for services that don't do e-mail validation, which opens me up for all sorts of abuse.

I bet someone out there is feeding all our plaintext passwords to a next word picker.

I can't keep up with having to move/delete services because of all the slop and neo-nazi shit. Can't y'all slow down just a little bit?!

Whenever automated tests are an afterthought in a codebase, it really shows. My eyes are bleeding today.