Mike van Riel

@mvriel
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I was 14 when I started with php. 22 years ago, when I build my first website. I used a book to learn #php.

I came across a website pfz.nl a former Dutch community. And started helping with their conference a few years later. My first contact with people like @Skoop, @sebastian @shochdoerfer and @mvriel and many more. All of them are friendly, willing to help.

I joined the @phpdoc project. And look at me now. I write code, used by thousands of people. #php pays my bills. #30YearsOfPHP

It is always pleasant to be right, but it is generally a much more useful thing to be wrong -- Gowers
Starting the day with adding stuff like teams and slack in my #Rambox app to make try and make it the central powerhouse app on my machine aside from #obsidian. Also to try out if I could use focus mode to help focus :D

#ObsidianMD protip: Add shortcuts to toggle the sidebars!

I love quickly hiding and showing them to gain more space for my notes, especially when working with multiple open notes (e.g., migrating weekly or monthly tasks). #pkm #notetaking

UPDATE: Bunnie is coming home, NS has found them and they should be mailed to us in the next days. Thank you all for sharing and boosting. I'm overjoyed

We lost my child's cuddly toy in the train from Amsterdam to Vlissingen 😭 They are heartbroken

EDIT: the cuddly toy is a grey bunny and their name is Bunnie, I can only imagine how scared little Bunnie is 😥

EDIT: adding an image, Bunnie was sitting in a pink backpack with children's clothes and a tablet in it

https://ilost.co/nl/lost/217655

#nederlandse #spoorwegen #ns

Ik ben mijn Roze regenboog rugzak met knuffel en tablet verloren

Het is een kinder rugzak roze pastel met regenboog kleuren Het belangrijkste is dat er een grijs knuffel konijn in zit – Help mee zoeken! #iLostAlert #ilost

iLost.co
Interesting.. @Skoop got two calls by people who asked if he was "Mike Riel" (my name has an infix!) and when he said he wasn't, they immediately hung up? 🤔

Hey, new blogpost up: Expanding on our training offering

Read it at https://skoop.dev/blog/2024/11/01/expanding-on-our-training-offering/

Expanding on our training offering - skoop.dev

I don’t know if it matters that I’m the son of two teachers, but training is in my DNA, knowledge sharing is in my DNA. From the moment I started learning PHP based on a book and scripts I downloaded from the Internet, I’ve tried to help other people who ran into issues that I […]

skoop.dev

Did you know: in .NET prior to .NET 4.5, the Uri.EscapeDataString method didn't escape spaces.

This means that if you build WebGL apps in Unity (where the recommendation is to stick with 2.1), that you _really_ should not use that method but UnityWebRequest.EscapeURL instead.

Otherwise you get weird failures when a space slips in your query parameters..

Google Chrome recently introduced the `@Gemini` shortcut in the omnibar.

I wrote about how you can set up a similar shortcut for ChatGPT. Check out my blog post to configure your own `@chatgpt` prompt right from the browser:

https://mikevanriel.com/2024/10/04/using-google-chromes-omnibar-to-directly-prompt-chatgpt/

#AI #ChatGPT #GoogleChrome #WebDev

Using Google Chrome’s Omnibar to Directly Prompt ChatGPT – Mike van Riel

En mooie ochtendwandeling met het allerleukste hondje #ukkie