Oliver Maksimović

48 Followers
134 Following
398 Posts
Earning a living with #PHP since 2005. In love with modernizing legacy codebases, excited by mission critical features.
PHP 8.5 will be released tomorrow, but the release announcement is already live - check that out: https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/en.php
#php
PHP: PHP 8.5 Release Announcement

PHP 8.5 is a major update of the PHP language, with new features including the URI Extension, Pipe Operator, and support for modifying properties while cloning.

Imagine if the package registries and #OpenSource components that you use were no longer available.

Would you still be able to deliver a single line of code? Would your software even start, or would your business come to a standstill within minutes?

https://phpunit.expert/articles/open-source-blackout.html?ref=mastodon

Open Source Blackout

"Open Source Blackout", an article by Sebastian Bergmann

I just think there's such an illusion of determinism in the software industry. As if all things are observed. As if any finding must generalize. As if (and I think this one is a profound one) all software developers are uniform and entirely fungible

One of the projects I'm working on is really huge (1m LoC) and it confuses AI the most, it's literally unbearable to keep it on. But, even in codebases that are young and really robust, free from magic and whatnot, AI still often tries to do impossible things or invents solutions that have so subtle bugs that pass code reviews from me and another senior developers.

I literally can't understand how anyone can push such code to production and sleep peacefully 🧐

Do you use an AI helper while you code? In my own experience, it's a zero sum game at best. Sometimes it helps, and sometimes it spits out pure junk (or wants to spit and I need to prevent it from doing so).

The flavor of AI doesn't matter much. I ended up turning everything off again, because all they do needs to be carefully reviewed _always_. It's like having a teammate whose actual skills are not clear, so you're never able to have confidence in what they do.

My older brother once told me if you don't congratulate yourself no one will. So in summary the total download of all my #PHP packages has now surpassed the 500 millions lead by league/uri and league/csv 🎉🎉🎉🎉 and the best part of it is that I never actively made any marketing of any of those packages which hopefully speaks volume about their usefulness

LinkedIn's notifications settings are a nightmarish maze. 3+ layers deep and dozens of clicks to turn things off.

Don't be this product person. It might boost your numbers, but you're measuring rage wrong.

If you like tailwind, you'd love CSS…
Have We Discovered All the Mayan Cities? Newly-Found Metropolis with Pyramids Shows We're Not Even Close

6,500 pre-Hispanic structures, including both habitation and landscape elements, were turned up across 5 survey blocks.

Good News Network

Dear artist friends and colleagues of all professions, wouldn’t you agree:

“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”

You can sign this statement now, as did The Cure’s Robert Smith, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Julianne Moore, Thom Yorke, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bragg, AURORA, and 13,500 others before you:

https://www.aitrainingstatement.org

#AI #AINotArt #NoAI #StopAI

Statement on AI training

An open letter on AI training signed by creators around the world.

Statement on AI training