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
Little Owl owlet
This lovely owlet was quite easy to find in a London Park, with some help as they camouflage so well!
I saw its sibling too.
#BirdPhotography #BirdsOfFediverse #Photography #Nature #London #BirdsOfMastodon
I went to a park (Bushy Park) to look for some owls.
I found Owls (Little and Tawny), but also a Green Woodpecker and two Kingfishers.
Snaps from my camera screen, and real photos will follow, but not of the Kingfishers as they were too far away and the photos are blurry.
#london #BirdPhotogaphy #BirdsOfMastodon #Birds #photography #BirdsOfFediverse #BushyPark
I hiked 13.8km in 4h44m12s
Created a chocolate shop and a restaurant; Updated 6 restaurants and an address; Confirmed 5 restaurants, a community_centre, and 3 other objects
Created a restaurant, a fast_food, and 2 other objects; Deleted a restaurant
I walked 8.5km in 1h31m45s
Created 2 buildings and a hairdresser shop; Updated a restaurant and an estate_agent office; Confirmed a cafe
I walked 2.2km in 38m09s
Merged pull request #1096
Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7
Merged pull request #1095
Improve Tiverton Green mapping
Created 2 gates
I walked 7.1km in 1h23m15s
I walked 1.0km in 9m24s
Realign streets. They now have much less wide corners into each other.
Updated a fast_food
I walked 9.1km in 1h35m41s
I hiked 4.7km in 3h24m10s
I walked 6.7km in 1h12m03s
I walked 7.7km in 1h47m24s
Updated a pub
Updated a pub
Created a bar; Updated a bar; Confirmed a restaurant and a bar




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