We are very happy to welcome Matt Stauffer as the newest Board member for The PHP Foundation! Matt brings decades of experience and we are grateful for his insight as we move forward.

Welcome, Matt! 🤩 🐘 🚀

Read more: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/03/25/welcoming-matt-stauffer-to-the-php-foundation-board/

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11500 wajongers zien hun uitkering van gemiddeld 750/mnd verdwijnen.

Scheelt de samenleving toch weer 100 miljoen per jaar, en dat is echt tering veel geld!

Namelijk al bijna 1/20e van de veel te optimistisch geschatte bijdrage die we voor de renovatie van Tata Steel moeten lappen.

Of 1/20 van de fiscale voordelen die Shell in Nederland op jaarbasis krijgt.

Of 1/100 van de hyptheekrente-aftrek, die wél geleideijk afgebouwd wordt.

Of ruim 10 keer het jaarlijkse wachtgeld voor politici...

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

EDIT: ze heeft genoeg mensen, dank!

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Ik werd benaderd door een masterstudent Change Management aan de RUG. Ze schrijft aan haar masterscriptie en doet onderzoek naar mensen die weerstand bieden tegen het gebruik van Big Tech.

Ze zoekt op dit moment specifiek mensen die gestopt zijn met Whatsapp en open staan voor een (online) interview. Je kunt me een bericht sturen, dan koppel ik jullie. Want ik zei dat het hier op Mastodon stikt van die mensen en dat die ook nog heel behulpzaam zijn 💛

One reason I ain't wish nobody dead and I ain't celebrate nobody dyin' is cuz Trump frequently does.

I do not want to be like him, or his, in any way.

I follow a lotta lefties, cuz I'm one, too, and I get pretty down sometimes reading them wishing for and then celebrating someone's death.

It's just not who I want to be, not how I want to live.

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

Blog post about #php collections and cats in pipes: https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2026/03/15/php-collections-and-you/

(ok, they're in cans, and I didn't write about them)

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