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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
@mwop@phpc.social
mastodon 4.7.3PHP Foundation Board Member. Laminas Project and Mezzio Technical Steering Committee member. PHP-FIG founding member, former Core Committee member, and collaborator on multiple specs. Currently Principal Product Manager at Perforce, covering Zend and OpenLogic.
I draw Zentangle-inspired art in my spare time.
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Joined April 26, 2022
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@julian@phpc.social @ocramius@mastodon.social I'm fine being a hobbyist programmer in my retirement.
The best part of being at #LaraconUS is nobody expects to see me here, and many haven't seen me in years and don't recognize the long-haired, grey-bearded hippy behind the Perforce booth. 🤣
It's so much fun to see the shock of recognition - "wait, you mean Zend? Like THE Zend?!? You're MWOP?"
Having the best time!
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@ocramius@mastodon.social Two steps:
- Have more money than you need in bank
- Retire
I suspect I'll never pass the first step.
Let's see how many folks at #LaraconUS are on the Fedi... Perforce Zend booth still has denim elephpants to give away! Stop by our booth!
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@grmpyprogrammer@yac.grumpy-learning.com @mfrost503@phpc.social @stevegrunwell@phpc.social I'm... not sure what my first concert was.
My parents are big music fans, and were in CO my first 5 years, seeing acts at Red Rocks and other venues there. When we moved to MT, they were volunteer announcers at the local community radio station, and we got free tickets all the time. Seeing shows was... just what we did.
Not big arena shows, mind - this WAS MT, after all.
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@jrf_nl@phpc.social @phpetra@phpc.social Better than nothing... Selfie while waiting at the airport.
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@Skoop@phpc.social @jrf_nl@phpc.social @phpetra@phpc.social Hard part is convincing marketing to send me - I'll see what I can do. I've been meaning to visit my Estonian engineers, so maybe I can wrap all of that into a single trip...
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@jrf_nl@phpc.social @phpetra@phpc.social My hair is pulled back - it's almost down to my ass these days. 🤣
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@Skoop@phpc.social Oh, I know. But if we could do that, we'd likely have an appetite for addressing the other things as well.
I wish we'd collectively place more obstacles in front of extractive "innovation" to get folks to look at the bigger picture, instead of just the new shiny and extracting profit.
Things keeping me sane this travesty of a week:
- Reading. I'm in book 5 of the Rivers of London series
- Journaling
- Drawing
- Comfort rewatch of What We Do in the Shadows
Hoping everybody is finding ways to cope in *flails hands at everything everywhere right now*
Updated my /now page today, with an essay on the semi-quincentennial of the US.
tl;dr: I hate what we've become as a nation, and hope we can change.
https://mwop.net/then/2026-07
#politics #semiquincentennial #uspol
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@phpetra@phpc.social @jrf_nl@phpc.social There's... Quite a bit of grey; just not obvious in photos. I'm actually more grey than my mom at this point, which she loves to rub in. 🤣
Recently ran across a #php oddity I'd not encountered before with `DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat()`, and blogged about it:
https://mwop.net/blog/2026-04-16-php-create-from-format-reset.html
Side benefit of self-hosting: had wireguard already setup, so creating an additional config for use as a vpn was a no-brainer.
Enjoying secure wifi while traveling is a nice win!
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@evert@indieweb.social I dropped it a few years back, and went vanilla zsh + starship... And was shocked at how much faster my shell started when I did.
I've since moved to fish, which is delightful. Reduced my customizations even further, as so much of what I used to do is just built-in.
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@erikaheidi@fosstodon.org My oldest, now 25, has PTSD from a full stealing french fries out of his hand when he was 4. 🤣
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I did that a couple years ago, and learned sooooo much!
And brought my stylesheet and page sizes down a TON in the process as well.
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@ramsey@phpc.social For us, the instant pot is perfect, as it also allows us to do other things (pasta, stews, currys, etc.). If you already have one, no need for another appliance.
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@hannah This is what we get for electing and/or confirming a bunch of paramilitary cosplayers to office. So gross.
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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town Back in the early nineties, a friend of mine and I made mango salsa, and it was that same sort of thing - sweet, fruity, a little citrusy (we used some lime juice) - and then it would hit the back of your throat, and the habaneros kicked in. So you'd have some more, because surely that sweet, fruity flavor will cool it down...
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@preinheimer@phpc.social Damn, but that's shitty. "Just raise the money!" say the folks in the wealthy neighborhood. "What money?" say the folks whose kids no longer have a playground at school.
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@ocramius@mastodon.social Not necessarily - it can be kind of like a visitor pattern where you pass around only the entity segments you'll operate on or reference. I used it recently when identifying webmentions from a struct containing a microformats hierarchy.
Did some design changes on my website over the weekend. Man, but I love how far HTML5 and modern CSS have brought us since that summer in the mid-90s when I used tables and style tags to create a directory of resources for a university research center, and it looked like crap in every browser.
Who am I kidding, all I had was Mosaic and Netscape.
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@sean I disable most notifications on my phone, or put them in the "silent" category so they show up in the notification scroll, but not as an alert.
Pet peeve is when an app update changes those to "loud" or introduces new notification categories that default to it.
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@ScottEdelman@wandering.shop I remember clipping that one myself, though I lost it many moves ago.
So prescient.
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@darkghosthunter@mastodon.social Yep! I'd created a barebones static repo, but once I found this, I switched over immediately. Ridiculously simple, and just works.
@ello@void.ello.tech You're at neon, right? Who from your team is at Laracon, cause I'm sitting across from them in the vendor hall. 😁
RE: https://www.threads.com/@culturecrave/post/Da_hBwwGSK7
More of this!
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@grmpyprogrammer@yac.grumpy-learning.com I went 3 months back in 2019. First few weeks were rough, and I needed more than average sleep, but eventually it became the new normal. Again.
Good luck this week!
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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange I had a home lab running for around 5 years, then nothing for around 15 years, and now have one again. Mini servers have made the whole thing a lot more affordable(1), mostly silent, and basically zero extra heat in the room. Having so much fun self-hosting on my own infra again!
(1) well, they were until the RAM shortages started impacting EVERYTHING...
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@grmpyprogrammer@yac.grumpy-learning.com Yeah, no, I know the details, and I think they're complete BS as well. Proud of CA and Carney for not caving into Trump and his minions - the only way to get a bully to back down is to stand your ground.
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@ello@void.ello.tech I switched over to Nextcloud News around... 7, 8 years ago? and used my opml from feedly to seed it. What I've seen since then is that most developer blogs I followed have tapered off or disappeared. The bulk of what comes in day-to-day for me now are from fiction authors, artists, and folks like Rands in Repose (technical leadership).
Oh, and webcomics. 😁
What if we'd required that any new data center applicant establish green energy supply equal to or greater to what they would draw from the grid?
Imagine the advancements.
Alas.
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@bobmagicii@phpc.social @Crell@phpc.social Ummm... one of the changes on my site animates a details tag... you can see it in my sidebar, if you click on "/...".
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@asgrim@phpc.social What compatibility issues are you running into?
(Truly curious; I've been on Wayland for a couple years now, and have had almost no issues. Curious what I should be watching out for.)
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@saramg I have one son who is regimented about taking his, and the other who... forgets... and the difference could not be more stark.
(Second son has been learning the lesson, though, and getting better about it, particularly since starting a new job where he's finally on a regular schedule.)
I've been using Gnome shell as my desktop manager on Linux for over 10 years. I've consistently been annoyed with status tray icons, as they proliferate and are never in a predictable location.
I found the Status Tray extension recently, and it's brilliant!
https://github.com/keithvassallomt/status-tray
#gnome