I'll be presenting at @longhorn in two months! It'll be my first speaking engagement in two years, and my (long-overdue) first visit to the conference. Tickets remain on discount until the end of the week if you'd like to join us. Looking forward to meeting even more of the #PHP community! […]

The README commit history in any repo I've managed is a sterling example of why I have near-zero #AI use. Nearly every time I re-read it, I find a tweak to improve it. This could be the only interaction someone has with years of your work. My goal is not the average. A great README is its own […]

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

You can draw a line from the rise of 4chan to the Trump administration. Being a virulent, fascist asshole in public fully broke societal containment. Putting the lid back on that jar is more work than an election can do. Millennials & Zoomers will learn to organize, or we're gonna lose […]

RE: https://aus.social/@perkinsy/117006314371109767 “IN THE REAL WORLD, INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IS RARELY THE STRONGEST PREDICTOR OF GROUP OUTCOMES. IN FACT, THE STRONGEST PREDICTORS OF DEVELOPERS' SELF-REPORTED PRODUCTIVITY TEND TO BE SOCIAL” (emphasis mine)

The AI Phrasebook https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/31/the-ai-phrasebook.html

The AI Phrasebook

_Agentic_ : bash. _Function calling_ : RPC. _Agent handoff_ : a pipe. _MCP_ : CGI. _Skills_ : markdown. _Multi-agent orchestration_ : systemd. _Autonomous agent_ : cron. _Computer use_ : ssh. _System prompt_ : `.env`. _World model_ : `/etc`. _Context window_ : scrollback. _Short-term memory_ : Redis. _Long-term memory_ : Postgres. _Embeddings_ : grep. _Distillation_ : ripgrep. _Retrieval augmentation_ : `locate(1)`. _Cross-attention_ : a JOIN. _Chain of thought_ : `~/.bash_history`. _Summarisation_ : `git rebase -i`. _Speculative decoding_ : tab completion. _Symbolic reasoning_ : regex. _Code interpreter_ : awk. _Structured output_ : ASN.1. _Model card_ : a man page. _LoRA_ : patch. _Evals_ : CI. _Pelican on a bicycle_ : fizzbuzz. _Mixture of experts_ : HAProxy. _Hallucination_ : a 404 page served as a 200. _Refusal_ : `/dev/null`. _Reflection_ : `set -x`. _ReAct_ : retry with backoff and a print statement. _Recursive self-improvement_ : a fork bomb. _Interpretability_ : EXPLAIN ANALYZE. _Mechanistic interpretability_ : strace. _Guardrails_ : ulimit. _Jailbreak_ : sudo. _Prompt injection_ : LD_PRELOAD. _Off switch_ : SIGKILL. _Human in the loop_ : `[y/N]`.

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Folks who think you're using "fascist" hyperbolically never stop to wonder who convinced them all uses of that word are hyperbolic... 🤔

⚠️ There are only 2 (two) good date formats: DMY (31 Jul 2026) for reading, narration, & natural language. ISO 8601 (2026-07-31) for lists, sorting, & technical accuracy. Most of the world already does this! Yes, really. 👋 If you don't... perhaps consider getting your shit together. 🤗 Thank […]

4 folks hired me into software orgs in the last 15 years. How long each lasted in their role afterward, chronologically: ~12 months ~9 months ~6 months ~3 months So... if you're looking to leave your role in ~0 months... shoot me a job offer I guess. 😮‍💨 😂

Yard sale day. Random teenager: “You seem like a dad. Or know dad things.” You're not wrong, kid. 😂

"We took a little time away from the Nazi Bar, but we noticed there's less pushback now for partying with the fash. So, back inside we go. Something-something, aren't-we-virtuous." #firefox #twitter #mozilla

me: the heartstopper movie is out… husband: we should rewatch the series first me: i find your terms agreeable we just binged season one and i am fully prepared to fight the entire world *right this minute* i don’t have the words to adequately convey what the series means to me, i am sure this […]

Holy shit, Higher Logic's incompetence knows no bounds. https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39625/vanilla-open-source-update

Looks like Higher Logic unpublished the Vanilla Forums repo last week (that they stopped sharing code to last year). Good thing I totally saw that coming and made a fork. 😎 https://github.com/prosembler/vanilla

GitHub - prosembler/vanilla: Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.

Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community. - prosembler/vanilla

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[US Politics] Your own people have not found any evidence of voter fraud, so shut up and RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! #USPol

Universal healthcare. Abolish ICE. 90% income tax top bracket (again). Eliminate capital gains. Expire copyrights in 28 years (again). Eliminate software patents. Increase corporate tax rates per subsidiary. Specify corporates are not people. ...would be a good start.

The land beneath most solar farms is mostly left as gravel or turf. But the teams at two sites in Minnesota decided to do things differently, seeding the ground with native grasses and flowering plants. Five years later, that land is home to many types of insect, with a 20-fold increase in bees […]

I just read the first political email I can recall where the CTA wasn't a link to an ActBlue donation page. 😍 Abdul for US Senate (MI) has a comprehensive volunteering resource page: https://go.abdulforsenate.com/canvass?stcid=4208274 Now to have a long conversation with my social anxiety […]

People are organizing more. Like... all over. It's exhausting and slow. And hopeful. And resilient. The pendulum swings once more. If you haven't noticed it yet, I think you will soon.

Enthusiasm for contributing to #PHP often fizzles out before it has a chance to catch fire. I've proposed a Working Groups RFC to change that. Here's the case for it and how you can help shape it. https://ben.ramsey.dev/blog/2026/07/who-do-i-talk-to

Who Do I Talk To?

PHP loses eager volunteers because there's no clear place for them to plug in. The Working Groups RFC proposes a framework to change that by empowering contributors, not adding bureaucracy.

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Latest way I made myself lol: A friend is thoughtfully polling a small group of us for the setting & theme of a TTRPG he's setting up. I'm a first-time player. We've been chatting about it for a couple days. I reply to the 6th poll and give a verbose answer re: availability. I wait a beat […]

I believe am soon to be the first person to migrate a #community out of #Discord with all its data intact. 😳

If you are following me, you probably want this book and should preorder it: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

just finished another rousing game of 'how did php versions linked from the CLI vs webserver diverge AGAIN?????????", where the answer is always "some dipshit thing I did 6 months ago when I only had partial context in my head" and the prize is deeply sighing for an hour.

I don't believe there's a way to become a billionaire (or even 100-millionaire) without hurting a great many people in terrible ways. I further believe the moral compass inside most of us is relativistic & unsteady, usually requiring ongoing tuning & repair from our friends & peers. The […]

I don't know who else desperately needs this, but Apple released an iCloud Passwords extension for Firefox 18 months ago: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icloud-passwords/

iCloud Passwords – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download iCloud Passwords for Firefox. iCloud Passwords lets you fill passwords from iCloud Keychain when signing in to websites using Firefox.

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Emoji-based post reactions were invented at Vanilla Forums in 2010 in Montreal. If you're reading this, you're now a significant % of the population that knows this. I'm pretty sure if a US tech monopoly had done it, *everyone* in tech would know, because they'd never shut up about it.

The thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept. When a powerful group of people […]

I am pro-excommunication. I am also pro-governance, of the democratic variety. If you don't know where the lines are and aren't enforcing them, you're not governing at all. Fascists love to call *you* a fascist for having principles & enforcing any at all. They want to erase the lines to […]