Event Producer at @wpsessions. Organizer behind @wordsesh, @woosesh, and @loopconf. Father to 3 boys (one with #T1D). Husband to @kjrichards. I love #OSS, #Lego, #woodworking, and good #movies. (Also it's pronounced "risen" as in, "He is risen.")
I see and post 12:34 a lot. No, I don't know why, either.
@docpop Great! Thanks again for the suggestions. Dude is loving it. We went with the Magicyoyo K2 Crystal and he's been throwing it every day for a week now.
Yesterday I blew his mind by saying you recommended it, that I know you, and then showing off some of your YT shorts. 😄
@docpop I noticed that as I started my search! I'm just accomplished enough to throw a sleeper, walk the dog, and get the yoyo to re-wind itself after a stall. I never got beyond that, so my mind hasn't yet wrapped around how an unresponsive yoyo would ever return.
Time for some YouTube education!
@docpop awesome, thanks a ton!
He got a cheap swag variety trinket yoyo from an event a couple weeks back and it's held his interest. Conveniently, his birthday is this weekend which means we can take a still-inexpensive next step and see if interest builds or wanes.
12:34!
Back home, finally, after a very long day of travel from London. #LoopConf was a blast! And now I'm ready to be in my own bed
There is a session about exactly this topic at @loopconf this year! Juliette, maintainer of the ever-popular phpcs package, is presenting: https://loopconf.com/sessions/resurrecting-the-dead
https://front-end.social/@leaverou/115128418135626087
This is excellent. 👌🏼
“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And […] not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked.”
Yuuup. Baffling how so many companies depend on open source software without funding it, ever.
4 years of Securing Laravel! 🎂
🎉 120 Security Tips
🕵️ 37 In Depth articles
Thank you all for the support over the years!
I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.
The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.
OK, preaching to the choir here, but…
Our brains and bodies are simply not wired to handle the 24/7 horrors going on in the world right now.
I am not going to judge you based on how much you do or don’t talk about current events here.
Because I do know that the folks I follow here - they care, even if they’re not talking about it.
So if you’re feeling guilty/awkward/whatever about posting a good thing, or what you had for dinner, or something you made - please, don’t.
We need good stuff.
a 2661 byte program I wrote just won the "Sur Prize" at the International Obfuscated C Code Competition. You can probably guess what it is once I mention that @foone might enjoy it
@davidbisset oh hang on, did I get to introduce YOU to something for a change!?
@nhoizey good news, I believe they've finally done this as of 2025! I've built a few new releases this year and they each had an individual bag of each number.
The multiple bags of each number also got me several times over the years. Did not like!
I guess they were called link shorteners for a reason 🥁
There is so much absolutely weird and sad shit in US politico-cultural war news today that I started to post like fifteen angry things and deleted all of them because all I want to say is hug your friends and remember that saying hello to a neighbor is worth more than 5000 hot takes online.
In a special hell where everything is very specifically bad in specifically bad ways
@cazmockett oh wow, another banger! I love the wispy bits protruding out into space. Very fun!
"Dear Website User,
Under the new Australian Age Verification system, we used your passport and/or driver's license details to validate you were over 16.
Recently we were compromised and our poorly secured database was siphoned off by a script kiddie and is now available on the dark web [a mysteriously named thing that should inspire terror].
We are advising you to please consider moving, selling your car, and going through a Ratified Religion Rebirth Ceremony so you can change your date of birth.
Thank you, as always, for using our Highly Secure Services."
Happy @loopconf ticket launch day for all who celebrate!
Just 20 minutes until tickets go on sale! Will you claim one of the first 50 Early Bird tickets?
