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by dreadnip 1y ago
I guess the main takeaway is that you don’t care about the quality of the generated code. The end result is all that matters. If I ask it to “add drag & drop”, I already know in my mind what the correct code should look like, because I’
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by dreadnip 2y ago
Er
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by dreadnip 2y ago
> it requires endless system maintenance. Otherwise all the PHP stuff becomes vulnerable to random hacks How so? I've seen PHP websites & apps run for 10+ years in production without updates. Even longer with a simple "sudo
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by dreadnip 2y ago
It's similar to the PHP micro-frameworks back in the day, like Silex and Lumen. Those often didn't contain more than a router, middleware, request/response objects, some type utils and a validator.
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by dreadnip 3y ago
I personally think htmx augmenting a MPA approach is perfect for medium-sized apps.
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by dreadnip 3y ago
PHP really took a great turn with PHP 8. It introduced such drastic breaking changes, that probably a lot of systems which were previously serving unsafe and error-prone code to their users will be abandoned. Projects that should have been
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by dreadnip 3y ago
There is a big difference between drugs like alcohol and nicotine, which are extremely addicting and something like MDMA, which isn’t.
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by dreadnip 4y ago
> This is not acceptable Why? I'm a software engineer working in an agency and I work exactly like you're describing. If I feel like going on a run, I'll mark myself as AFK and go on a run. If I feel like closing my laptop
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by dreadnip 4y ago
Symfony is more explicit, configurable and has way less magic.
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by dreadnip 4y ago
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff Both offer a fictitious and simplistic introduction to eastern philosophy. Growing up as an atheist in Western Europe, I never realized just how deep the influence of religion o
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by dreadnip 4y ago
> Php 8 had a lot of breaking changes and upgrading it is already an arduous task. How so? I've upgraded most of my project to PHP 8 quite easily. Which versions were you running before, and what breaking changes did you see?
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by dreadnip 4y ago
> PHP as a language and ecosystem seems to be evolving backwards from a reliable, productive and accessible tool to something that is breaking callers, introduces versioning and upgrade issues. Having 7 different methods to do string int
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by dreadnip 5y ago
The odds of those things being worked into php-src are very, very small. Most of the time there has been discussion on these topics on the internals mailing list, it was clear that the majority favored keeping those things in userland. The
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by dreadnip 5y ago
He wrote some decent articles before, and he might write some good ones in the future, but this right here, this ain't it. Unlike other "x in 2022" articles (for example https://www.ncameron.org/blog/rust
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by dreadnip 5y ago
I'm glad the community around modern PHP is thriving, but filler articles like these are getting on my nerves. Reiterating a bunch of content that has already been covered extensively on the web in the past months (and in 10+ previous