Ron Northrip
@ronnorthrip.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood white beard! Organizer of the @kyphpug.bsky.social meetup Building @draftsmaninc.bsky.social - a visual dev tool Blog: https://friendlyneighborhoodwhitebeard.dev dev, father, husband, friend, wine-drinker, foodie, musician
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98% humidity is too many humidities
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
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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I'm looking for PHP experts to give their feedback and insights: stitcher.io/blog/getting...
Getting started with PHP | stitcher.io
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I think McConnell is brain dead and on life support so they can hold the majority. I’ll let you be the judge if that’s a fitting end for the man who held up SCotUS hearings until his guy was in office.
Introducing IronLint - A fully local agent linting tool. It's my tool for introducing deterministic scripts & governance into your agent workflow. - Prevents writes if your static tooling does not pass - Provides telemetry to fix your prompts No LLM, all local. github.com/ironlint/iro...
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I'll be presenting a demo of Draftsman this week!
KYPHPUG@kyphpug.bsky.social · last mo.Coming up Thursday (Jul 9 - 7PM) A Demo of Draftsman Draftsman lets you examine, explore, connect and change Laravel's eloquent models and relationships. Presentation by @ronnorthrip.bsky.social Sign up here: www.meetup.com/kentucky-php...
My favourite feature in Linear: auto-close stale items. My mantra has become: If something has been in the backlog for 12 months, it is clearly not an important issue. So delete it.
I heard they're going to rename it The Jeffery Epstein Deflecting Pool
Finally got my words down for why LLMs *need* static rule checks: arter.dev/blog/the-ant...
The Antidote to Code Slop | Chris Arter | A Blog of Tech & Cars
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turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart
There is no middle ground between decency and bigotry. 10,000,000,000% agreed
Kevin Kretsch (DrKev)@kevinkretsch.com · last mo.There is no middle ground between decency and bigotry. When you try to walk that line, you will never make anyone happy. The far-right are extremely vocal in the UK but still a small minority. A principled and loud stand against them is better than moving your party platform right to meet them.
May your peanut butter be the crunchiest
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2mo agoMay your Zoom update often
why are they called blue maga and not insane in the dem brain
Eating Oreos without pulling them apart because nothing even matters anymore.
