| location | Brooklyn, NY |
| web | https://mattbrown.dev |
| github | https://github.com/muglug |
I have an occasional hankering to create a Rust port of @psalm. With all the work I've already done on https://hakana.dev, it would be about a month of effort, but it's a terrible idea.
It would be at least 5x faster, but, I think, inferior in every other respect to a PHP-based system. You wouldn't be able to use existing plugins, & only 1-2 people would have any interest in maintaining it.
Dumping it on the PHP community would be like giving a new car to someone who can't afford the gas.
Does anyone want Bluesky codes? I have five to give away — DM me and I'll send you one.
Mastodon is currently really good for nerdy stuff, but BlueSky is a better home for people (esp in the US) who really liked pre-Musk Twitter.
16 years ago I built a Flash site that allowed you to select three country flags and combine them into a single flag. It was a simple idea, but over 150k people created flags with it.
Then someone accidentally pulled the plug on the whole project in 2011.
A couple of months ago I decided to recreate it, minus Flash. It has a brand-new frontend using all the latest web technologies. On the backend I’m still using good ol’ #php.
Give it a whirl and get creative: https://wearemulticolored.com
Fun little quadrant of my pinned GitHub projects.
Two initial projects — @psalm (written for PHP) and hack-sql-fake (written for Hack by Scott Sandler) — translated into two new tools: Hakana (Psalm rewritten for Hack) and php-mysql-engine (hack-sql-fake rewritten for PHP).
“They would love for us to forget the gains we make when we stand up together and to instead fret over what standing up might cost us.
The better question to ask is: what does it cost us when we don’t?” #WGAStrong https://youtu.be/NMc2erLcuZI
This is real-world XKCD
See full thread: https://twitter.com/rachel_l_woods/status/1649790435533922307?s=61&t=Ugdi4XBKf_2ovJ1y9hKs4w
Slowly but surely journalists are finding their way to the Fediverse. These tech & digital media reporters are already active on Mastodon:
@couts — Wired
@caseynewton — Platformer
@mimsical — WSJ
@pierce — The Verge
@drewharwell — Washington Post
@harrymccracken — Fast Company
@jank0 — Lowpass
@joannastern — WSJ
@jr — Computerworld
@mathewi — Columbia Journalism Review
@stshank — CNET
@taylorlorenz — Washington Post
@willoremus — Washington Post
Don’t have time to get into it now, but I’m on team “make the fediverse so great that it attracts more people,” and not team “yell at those who use big social.”
And I’d encourage the same from everyone who wants to @spreadmastodon.
Things I ask myself:
- Have we done everything to make it super easy to join Mastodon and find great follows?
- What do organizations need in order to experiment on Mastodon?
… etc.
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