alana storm 🏳️‍⚧️

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I was slightly internet famous to a few thousand Magento programmers for ten years and it was exhausting. I wore my hair differently in those days. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Pronounsthey/she/eternal hag born of ill winds and the movement of bogs
Young TransAncient Queer

Name change quest continues: I need a new handle name on Mastodon and decided it's time to migrate away from phpc.social.

My career isn't tied to one language these days, and even if it was the direction PHP's been heading in recent years is not for me. A huge thanks to @phpc, @ramsey, and anyone else who keeps this place going. It was a fine place to get my fedi feet under me.

Changeover will happen sometime this week -- as soon as I figure out how this mythic account moving actually works.

@andybaio Anything more probably belongs in an NSFW channel ;)

It's another area where everyone's mileage seems to vary. [2/2]

@andybaio Never went away for me but it definitely changed -- the overpowering everything in an instant T arousal has been gone for a while (and good riddance) and been replaced by something more subtle that will be slight at first that I need to chase down a little. Pleasure levels also plateau and stay that way for periods of time. Peaking orgasm is both less important and more work to reach, and I caught sight of a double once but it was early days and I kind of chickened out [1/2]

If you're looking for a good way to find out every place you've hard coded your 1997-style personal first.name.last.name.com domain name may I recommend transing your gender?

Everything should be up and running at https://alanastorm.com/ and redirecting from the old domain name. Also, I'm not saying it's _all_ .htacess files but SOME .htaccess are incredibly transphobic.

Alana Storm – the professional weblog; because we have to

the professional weblog; because we have to

Alana Storm

Tired: ChatGPT -- mansplaining as service

Wired: ChaGPT -- tech bro astrology/divination

I got a lovely email thanking me for the first game I ever wrote way back three decades ago and I am here to tell you please if there is a thing you love to let the creator know.

me, suddenly understanding why a job that boils down to "hey keep an eye on these daemon processes if they do weird stuff tell the right people" gets filed under the R&D budget

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-cfos-ask-congress-to-repeal-change-to-r-d-tax-rules-11667845533

U.S. CFOs Ask Congress to Repeal Change to R&D Tax Rules

Nearly 180 finance chiefs warn of ‘grave harm’ from requirement to amortize costs over time instead of deducting them immediately

The Wall Street Journal

@dragonmantank _nod_ -- I've run into two flavors of this -- "I'm a software engineer, other people figure out how to operationalize my code" and then folks from the Node.js/GoLang/other-language where you end up coding small web servers yourself every day.

Related: Back in my New Relic days I found myself having to explain (and justify?!) the FastCGI and mod_php split and apache extensions generally to a bunch of unimpressed C programmers and the vibe was pretty out there.

@dragonmantank that makes me feel each and every one of my years -- is this PHP folks or a wider developer community? Do you have any sense for what these folks are using instead? (nginx? or "i dunno we just add a container to the registry and stuff works"?, etc.?)
gonna round this one up and tag it "honorifics are hard across cultures"