So, like everyone on the planet I've been playing around with artificial "intelligence" for a bit. It sat uneasy with me - it's not actually "intelligent" but rather a glorified autocomplete, it has lots of issues with intellectual property, and - as anyone with a smartphone knows - autocomplete can really f*ck it up out of the ballpark.
Earlier this week I was preparing a staging environment (on our live servers, so yes, that makes me TRWTF I guess) that required PHP 8.4. The servers were still running 8.2, but that upgrade was a bit overdue anyway, so I decided to run a dist-upgrade. After all, I'd been running 8.4 on dev for a while, so what could possibly go wrong?
…stuck on my eyes, what a surprise, my brain hurts a lot, but that’s all we’ve got.Yeah, it’s been a while, mostly because I’ve been working on legacy systems (hello Zend version 1!) that certainly had their share of wtfs, but weren’t that interesting to blog about.However, a new rant is coming up! But first, I must purchase cancersticks (I still haven’t given up smoking, I AM vegetarian these days).Stay tuned, kids!
Okay, let me be slightly more nuanced about that statement: a few years ago Bootstrap had its merits (and I guess it still does). You can use it to quickly whip up a UI. I mean, it looks like every other UI you whipped up, but at least it isn't totally horrible to look at.
I hate it when documentation doesn't advocate best practices. Even worse, that means that virtually every tutorial on the bleeding internet copypastas those same bad practices. I'm looking at you here, socket.io!
We all know dates are hard, which is why we let libraries and built-in language features handle them. Right?
PHP has come a long way in recent years, and though it's still not by far the most elegant language ever PHP5.3+ at least looks like an actual programming language.
Right. So, I don't normally use this blog for promotion, but since I wrote about this app before and it's now (more or less) done and live, I thought it deserved a mention. May I present to the interwebz: FlirtTracker.
I don't know what I accidentally dragged into the Firefox awesomebar to trigger this Google search, but I'm sure it's pretty interesting...
I'm developing a (rather cool, I think) website/app (it's going to go live somewhere in the next few weeks, depending on how fast AAPL approves it) and as a part of that today I wanted to develop a circular countdown. A what? Well, essentially we needed a circular area to gradually 'fill up' clockwise until a certain time had been reached. In common speak, I was making a clock.
