Finding Ada
Several months ago I signed a pledge that I would publish a blog post today about a woman in technology whom I admire. Well, when writing this post yesterday, I came to the conclusion that it's very hard for me to pick just one specific woman to talk about. So I am talking about more than one, and they're all rockstars—even the ones that I am not mentioning, you know who you are.
In the PHP community there are quite a few ladies that are actively involved. On the C-side of things (not pun intended) there's Sara Golemon and Elizabeth Smith . Sara works at Yahoo! doing search engine things, and is the master of writing interesting, but dangerous extensions to PHP. She's also the author of the only dedicated book on PHP's internals . Elizabeth ( in her own words ) "enjoys doing very perverse things to Windows using PHP" and is generally known as the person who among other things, fixes things on Windows, maintains the PHP-GTK bindings. She also occasionally fixes my code .
With Sara and Elizabeth we also end up at phpwomen . Together with Ligaya Turmelle , Elizabeth Naramore , Kathy Reid and Lorna Mitchell they run this organization to "provide a network of support and mentorship to women, help women become more involved with PHP, increase our numbers at conferences as speakers and attendees, and provide a “female friendly” atmosphere." With their effort, I am sure we'll see more involvement in the PHP community from the other currently unknown female PHP types adding to the diversity of our community.
Life Line
Merged pull request #1104
Drop support for PHP 8.1
Merged pull request #1103
Drop support for PHP 8.0
Merged pull request #1102
Upgrade composer for benchmarks
Merged pull request #774
PHP 7.4 has not been supported for a while
Fixed issue #1674: Inconsistent Path & Branch Coverage Reported
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1101
Fixed issue #2436: Potential crash when remembering on which lines br…
I walked 8.0km in 1h30m48s
Footpath connectivity (and removing some useless/wrong ones)
Merged pull request #1063
Add 'make test-frankenphp' which also sets the current PHP version
Fixed issue #2403: Reinit debugger for requests in FrankenPHP worker …
Just stood outside for a few minutes and I got some actual rain drops on my head! The first in like two months. 🌧️ #ukrain
Updated a pub
I walked 0.8km in 10m30s
I walked 7.7km in 1h30m26s
I walked 6.7km in 1h7m37s
As I said yesterday, I never saw a Kingfisher hovering, but here is (some slightly blurry) evidence of one doing so.
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Kingfisher Caught Its Lunch
This lovely chap caught a fish right in front of us, after hovering for a while.
It seemed pleased with itself, and instead of flying away to feed it to its kids, it ate it.
#BirdPhotography #Birds #BirdsOfFediverse #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography
Looking at my photos from RSPB Rye Meads from yesterday, and literally the first one is of a Kingfisher projectile-pooing.
Such glamorous birds :-D Luckily, better photos were taken, and I'll share those soon.
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