Mark Story

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Staff Engineer @getsentry. Core Developer on @cakephp, Dad, MTG Player, and occasional Illustrator.
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Remember that the same people say the same thing about AI
😢 I got force upgraded to MacOS Tahoe at work, and I hate it.
I had planned to get my bike ready for the season, but with another blast of winter this morning I am much less motivated now.
Iowa Mark Story: I have all your RealID appointment confirmation codes if you need them.
I was initially not a fan of the ninja turtles magic set. Last night, I did a draft with my playgroup, and the set in isolation was fun, and cards reflect the turtles universe well. I found that there are too many variants of the turtles, and the common legends were a bit clunky at times.

My @torontostar column this week: there’s no science that can make sense of Doug Ford’s decision to move the Science Centre.

The new facility will cost more and deliver less — and waste a whole bunch of time that parents and kids will never get back.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/what-doug-ford-s-ritzy-new-science-centre-is-really-costing-us-and-our-kids/article_96d6acff-9fbe-441f-a522-ee349fac7286.html

Matt Elliott: What Doug Ford’s ritzy new Science Centre is really costing us and our kids

The Ford government’s current cost estimate for the new Ontario Science Centre is much higher — for a building with a smaller footprint than the old location.

Toronto Star

Okay friends, I am back at the hotel after a wonderful dinner with friends, both old and new, and before I go to sleep I wanted to talk about ConFoo.

On the one hand, it was great to be with lots of enthusiastic people who are interested in programming. As a staff-level engineer with almost 30 years of experience and having given talks for more than 20 years, I enjoy all the sharing and the conversations.

AI talks were everywhere, at least a third of all talks. People are excited and lots of examples of integrating this stuff.

But the AI stuff is very deeply personal for me because these companies stole my books and paid me nothing to use them. They are attempting to resell to others what they stole. I am not attempting to gatekeep people. If you want to use them, knock yourself out.

I am just disappointed at the overall lack of empathy being shown to folks like me who had their stuff stolen. Too many shrugs or weak comments.

You are not required to care about what happened to me. Just don’t be surprised at the frosty reception and comments you will get from me when you ask me to be impressed by what you have done with these tools.

We’re excited to welcome @elizabeth as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! 🐘 šŸ’œ

Elizabeth Barron brings deep PHP community roots, open-source governance experience from GitHub and CHAOSS, and a passion for making PHP thrive for decades to come.

Read more → https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/

#php #phpc #thephpf #opensource #foundation

Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

Log4j, *the* project that escalated the need for funding open source in the first place, is currently being DOS’d by slop vulnerability reports. Well done everyone. Slow fucking clap.

https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/4052

Addressing AI-slop in security reports Ā· apache logging-log4j2 Ā· Discussion #4052

You may have noticed that activity on the public Log4cxx, Log4j, and Log4net repositories has slowed since December 2025. I want to reassure you that the projects are still being actively monitored...

GitHub