Well, that was the smoothest passport control I’ve ever been through. I never once interacted with a person. I walked through customs, did my declaration at a kiosk (I did an advanced declaration), grabbed my bag, and walked right into the country.

I’m really honored to be among the speakers selected to speak at this year’s @longhorn PHP Conference. I hope you’ll join me there! https://longhornphp.com #PHP #LonghornPHP

Longhorn PHP

Longhorn PHP is a 2-day conference in Austin, TX to help PHP and other web developers level up their craft and connect with the larger PHP community.

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The person next to me on the flight watched Fox News for the entire 3 hour, 45 minute flight. Fox News is freaking out over El-Sayed winning the Democratic primary in Michigan. Apparently (according to Fox News), he’s a far-left communist who wants to destroy the country, and the Democratic […]

I went through security in Nashville today without ever showing my boarding pass or ID. Everything was handled with facial recognition. Boarding the plane from Salt Lake City to Vancouver, they did the same thing. No boarding pass or passport check, just facial recognition.

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 […]

I could never be an airline gate agent.

I do believe that, one day, the lines will be so blurry, we’ll find ourselves faced with the real question of sentient and sapient computers. However, we are not there yet, and I don’t think we’re near there, at least not with LLMs.

Flying to Vancouver for #FOSSY. I think this is my first international flight in 10 years.

Remember that one day in 1990 when everyone was eating oat bran muffins?

“In order to believe in an infinitely creative future, you have to stop believing in AI as a thing and believe in human collaboration as a thing.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ZKYH8v_do

I just saw that South Korea’s stock market crashed last week. Will that have any ripple effects on other stock markets this week?

I was looking at the website of a local business, and I noticed their pages end with `.php`. So, I thought, I'll bet they still have the X-Powered-By header. Sure enough, yes they do: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.45

This is live right now, and it’s wild. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/29/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-rand-paul-covid-lab-leak-theory-iran-tariffs-latest-news-updates

Enjoying see old friends and meeting new people at #laraconus, but very disappointed that Taylor is proud to announce that he & DHH will be sharing a stage soon. And getting huge applause for that. We can do better folks!

So, wait. “Swipe right” means you start from the right side of the screen and move it towards the left side? That can’t be. This doesn’t seem intuitive, but that’s what Discord’s iOS UI just instructed me to do to get to DMs faster.

I think my electric bill for this month is the highest it’s ever been. 😬

I don’t know whether this is a hot take, but Kimetsu no Yaiba is just okay. The animation and voice acting are good, but the stories are so-so. I got bored with it during the Entertainment District Arc and stopped watching. #Anime #DemonSlayer

Soon…

aww see, folks, this is what we lose if we lose the National Historic Preservation Act we lose Ursula K. LeGuin's house https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2026/07/this-literary-giants-portland-home-just-became-a-national-historic-landmark.html?gift=aa2f7d47-3a25-4fa9-8bc0-ed8ffbcec018

Thinking about the sci-fi novella "Profession" by Isaac Asimov, published in 1957. In the future, people's brains are tested for professional aptitudes, and then "Educated" by machine which trains their mind to do a job. One man is told his brain cannot be […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

Wow. Final judgement in the Anthropic class action is approved. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors whose works it pirated. The lawyers get $101.56 million (6.8%); a third of what they initially requested. There is a 30-day notice-of-appeal period […]

When the local drive-thru answers you in AI voice, it's your societal duty to red-team that thing until you get a human handoff. “Oh, could I add an order of triple salted uncooked fries, extra small, and a diet water with no ice, but make the ice extra cold? Plus a sundae with double pickles […]

I was running Claude at work last week when it reported it couldn’t make commits, so I asked what happened, and it explained that it needed a Git repository to make commits. “You’ve been working in a Git repository. What happened?” I asked. It argued back that the directory was not a Git […]

Sculpin 3.3.0 is available now! Sculpin is a PHP-based static site generator that allows you to write your website's content in Markdown, which is then rendered to static HTML that can be uploaded to nearly any web host. You can even get free hosting from GitHub Pages or Forgejo/Codeberg Pages […]

Squeeee!!!!

When you’re Cesar Romero, you can just smear that clown white into your mustache, and no one bats an eye.

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116909536653309589 I’m open to feedback on my working groups proposal for the PHP project. As I wrote on my blog, if you read the policy and find a wrinkle that could be mistaken as a barrier, let me know so we can iron it out. #PHP

Ben Ramsey@ramsey.dev · 3w ago

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

ohhh now i get it... i'm actually in the year 3000 and in a long-term holodeck experience created by lana wachowski, it's the prequel to the matrix and lets you slowly and agonizingly experience how misguided humans built the matrix themselves

Season 4 of “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?” had no business being as good as it was. Wow! Amazing! #Anime