Modern PHP Cheat Sheet from the book Front Line PHP

Highly irregular postings about technology and life

Fairphone proves any Android OEM can match Apple's six years of support.

Online tool for cleaning up messy BibTeX files by making spacing consistent, removing duplicates, removing unwanted fields, and sorting entries.

The solution to our puzzle about Euler’s number explains why e pops up in situations that involve optimality.

30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere

AMD cosies up to Samsung and becomes its first major 3nm customer, according to reports.

A development browser for professional web developers. Build and test responsive, accessible websites with multi-viewport previews and accessibility tooling.

Depend on abstractions, not on concretions

I’ve been lurking the fish shell for a couple of years now (and the
nushell but it is another story for
another time). Not so long ago, I decided to try it, and it’s simply… amazing. If I had to state one feature that makes me like to use it, it’ll be the…

The newly-agreed German government coalition has called for a Europe-wide ban on public facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. This echoes the core demands of the Reclaim Your Face campaign which EDRi has co-led since 2020, through which over…

John Carmack tweeted,
I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?
And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being ...

“I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.”

Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare.
This is largely a discoverability problem1. The solution the Internet has settled on seems to be “Emacs distributions” like Doom, Spacemacs…