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
I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
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Updated a bicycle_parking
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Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1071
Fixed issue #2411: Native Path Mapping is not applied to the initial …
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1070
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Fixed issue #2405: Handle minimum path in .xdebug directory discovery
I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
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