PHP 500
Two weeks ago, I was on a plane from Leeds, where I had given a "What's New in PHP 8.5" talk at the Leeds PHP user group, on the way to Amsterdam. Later that day, I would give a similar talk for the Rotterdam PHP user group, hosted by my friend Damien Seguy. My list of talks indicated that that would be my 500th talk I would ever give.
Damien and I have known each other for quite some time. When we met at the International PHP Conference in Munich earlier this year, we were reminiscing about this. I thought we had met at that same conference, but back in 2002.
Damien insisted that it was a year earlier, and he had a t-shirt to prove it. But then, if I would have been at that 2001 conference, I would likely have given at talk there too. But it wasn't in my list.
After digging around with the Wayback Machine, eventually I found evidence of this — the conference's website doesn't go back far enough either.
I could not really find the whole slide deck though — not even the Wayback machine had all PDF pages archived.
This did however mean that the talk that I was going to give in Rotterdam would be my 501st talk. I was reluctant to tell Damien, as he indicated that he would try to make a thing out of it.
So I did tell him, that no, my 500th talk was "last night in Leeds", and not tonight. Despite his grave disappointment, he still thought it be nice to at least mark the occasion — with a badly photocopied PHP $500 bank note.
It wasn't a fake image, as there are actually PHP $500 banknotes, as PHP is the Philippine Peso. He did promise to do better, and a week or so later, an envelope arrived with an actual PHP $500 note in it to celebrate. It's going to go up framed on my wall. For the first time I was actually paid in PHP!
Thanks Damien, and the PHP community to have listened to my 500^W 501 talks!
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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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
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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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