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oliver

@oliver@phpc.social

Earning a living with #PHP since 2005. In love with modernizing legacy codebases, excited by mission critical features.

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djumaka, to random
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I just figured out, that I can perfectly work on a standing desk with the baby in my sling, me wrapped like a mummy. Even though I bought the cheapest standing desk mechanism and made the top from an old plywood with a foil on it, it starts to be the best thing I've bought recently. Given the price of ~150EUR in total (if you have the top surface it is some 45 EUR less) I have no idea why companies don't buy these on mass scale.

oliver,
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@djumaka not everyone can stand for a long time 😕of course sitting for prolonged time isn't good, but in my case standing is way worse than sitting intercepted by occasional short walks

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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My father, even before he got dementia and ended up in a nursing home, could be extremely difficult to deal with. While in the home he’s stopped brushing his teeth to the point where they are rotting and falling out of his mouth. My mother has filed a complaint, the staff at the home are upset (screw them, it’s their fault) and he is now trying to bite anyone who tries to touch his mouth.

This is all kinds of messed up and I miss my pre-dementia dad, difficult person and all.

oliver,
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@grmpyprogrammer it's so devastating.

they are physically the people you've known for decades, but they are actually someone else now.

my late grandfather had Parkinson's and then dementia kicked in. he was back and forth in time, but most of the time just lost somewhere in between, mixing everything up and being paranoid about random (benign) stuff. at some point he had an idea to stop eating because it was "useless".

oliver,
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@grmpyprogrammer my grandmother slipped into dementia as well, following the two strokes not much apart. her memory rolled back by 40+ years. she didn't know who I am any more, or that my mom (her daughter) has passed away. sometimes didn't even know she got married and had children at all. at times it was fun, like being so determined to get dressed for a party, asking for make up and stuff. but, for the most part, it was simply devastating.

oliver,
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@grmpyprogrammer won't spam any more, you've got your own set of sad things going on.

it just sucks. it sucks a lot. be strong. try to not let the current state of affairs cloud the "before" memories 😕

Crell, (edited ) to php
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Hey . When you use union and intersection types, do you include spaces?

(RT for reach, etc. This is survey data for @phpfig. If you know of any official policies by major projects already, please note/link in the replies.)

oliver,
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@Crell it depends. If the class names are long, or if there are many of them, then I put the spaces in between in order to visually scan them faster. There are no fixes rules.

Or... maybe to rephrase: no spaces until my eyes hurt and it looks like a mess.

bobmagicii, to random
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hey i got a table where the primary key iterated over 1mil. its been a while most our projects are tiny.

oliver,
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@bobmagicii it's all good until you figure out that a rather important table has just run out of room for a PK that's signed int, which is also referenced from similar-sized tables via FKs 😶

oliver,
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@bobmagicii Yes, I saw it's a bigint, you've done all your could. Wish it's been the same in my case. Instead, we had a war room set up and eventually worked around the problem in a rather disgusting way, but when the prod can't even be placed in a proper maintenance mode, then you grab whatever straw you can hang on to.

oliver,
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@bobmagicii well yeah, that's dangerously similar 🤷🏼‍♂️

Our live table hit the unsigned int max. But, now we have 2 archives 😄 ...because the original one was so big that it'd take a couple of days or weeks (nobody knows for sure) to upgrade.

ramsey, (edited ) to random
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I managed to avoid for 10 years, but it’s finally caught up to me, so I hope I’m a Kubernetes god after going through all this required (by job) Kubernetes training.

When do I start honking like a duck goose?

oliver,
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A minute of silence for the fallen brother, please

itsjoshbruce, to php
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It’s been so long since I did anything with authenticated users, curious about “modern” patterns and standards.

Specifically, an authenticated user wants to do something. What patterns and standards are you using for permissions?

I’m seeing middleware mentions. But, curious what else is out there. Not looking for “use Framework X” and should be testable. Doesn’t need to be web-specific as I’m just looking for patterns and standards.



oliver,
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@itsjoshbruce middleware user here, on the most recent project. I can't say I'm particularly proud of it, but it does the job so far

oliver,
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@itsjoshbruce it's the request (route or route group middleware). Authenticated user is set early to the container and then various areas are protected based on the user's roles. Of course, there are more detailed checks later in the flow (e.g. parts of the interface are hidden or different depending on role/permissions). Middleware is stopping the unintended actions, like playing with URLs to access what's not supposed to be seen or actioned on.

oliver, to php
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If you were about to start a medium-sized #PHP project, what would you choose as an #ORM, and why? It should be something stable and well maintained. If the business takes off, then there should be no need to replace that layer.

Caveat: imagine that Doctrine and Eloquent haven't been invented yet.

oliver,
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@thgs it is a side project that will be maintained by me for the foreseeable future. It has some commercial potential I hope, but if it starts growing fruits then I will make sure to bring someone in who will have enough experience and no fear to dive in, regardless of the libraries used. The goal is to start minimal.

Looks like some dbal + data mapper is the way to go, the latter probably something custom.

oliver,
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@zimzat yeah, on the surface level things seem to be attractive, but as you go further and deeper, facepalms emerge. Some dbal & a custom data mapper will probably be the start.

I use Doctrine on my day-to-day work, and have used Eloquent before. Eloquent I liked up to some point, but can't say that for Doctrine. I wish I had more time to build something like Eloquent but with less magic and bloat (simple to use but not trying to do everything imaginable)

sirber, to php
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There's not enough money in the world you can give me to work on your custom #php framework.

#webdev

oliver,
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@maxalmonte14 they either have no idea what they're doing, or have a very good idea*

  • by not using a framework I don't mean not using any components that may be a part of one. just not a full-blown "off the shelf" framework.
oliver,
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@sirber come on, there's a price for every kind of work 🙃

sinbad, to random
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F**ks sake they changed something pretty fundamental between UE 5.4 Preview and UE 5.4 Final - the ability to have multiple objects in an asset file, which SUDS relies on - the dialogue and string table are in the same asset; now the string table is gone.

I was worried they might do this because they started hiding them in 5.3 (not a problem) so I tested 5.4 Preview but everything was fine. Now it's completely broken in 5.4 Final, every single dialogue line is <MISSING STRING TABLE ENTRY> 😠

oliver,
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@sinbad I have no idea what kind of stack is that, but the string appears to have a tag that is not properly closed. Could there be something discarding the whole string because of that?

packagist, to php
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oliver,
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@ramsey maybe? :)

Skoop, to random
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Ah, the good old "pubic function" typo hit me again.

It took me at least 30 seconds to figure out why the PHPStorm indenting was off

oliver,
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@Skoop you're not utilizing live templates, e.g. the bulit-in "fnc[TAB]" to never again worry about pubic issues?

bertrand, to php
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Hey Mastodon, what's a free hosting plan for a server-side Web app + DB you'd recommend? Should I pursue with good old and or is there something more modern? I have a small doodling idea for this three days week-end and maybe I should also learn a new language?

oliver,
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@bertrand if the PHP is the thing you know the best, then get the latest stable version of it and start doing the work you want to do In case you do something that's outdated, it will let you know and you will learn something new. Rinse and repeat :)

ramsey, to php
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A friend was telling me about guidelines for developing and deploying new services in their company, and one of the guidelines is “new services must not use .”

I’m not making this up, and this isn’t hyperbole. They actually have this listed on their company documentation.

oliver,
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@ramsey well, that sucks. Good luck to them in their adventures.

On the other hand, in the (fairly big) company I work for, all of the new services are in PHP :) I guess we could do that in something else, too. But, PHP has been the backbone of the business for ~20 years, so why change it? It's not that it's flawless, being worshipped by management or something like that. It's a tool that delivers.

oliver,
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@ramsey I don't think I can share a lot, depends on what you would like to know about. It's a fintech company, not a startup. There's tons of code that every experienced engineer would want to tear apart and rewrite, but we don't go there unless there's e.g. a major feature change, which we can then use as an excuse to do some maintenance along the way. The code makes money, so let it do that without shaking the boat too much.

oliver,
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@ramsey the beast repo has only recently got the 8.1 constraint. Something like 1.5M LoC (no vendor). The jump has been made from 7.2. It took almost a year to get there, along with ensuring that 40+ other internal packages are in line with it, and 60+ others, some of which had to be forked due to being abandoned years ago. The journey has been fun and exhausting :) I may write some kind of a tldr here or at my blog (which doesn't exist at all... yet).

oliver,
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@ramsey Also, before someone asks "why only to 8.1" 😄 because stability and predictability. Some packages we use huge BC breaks in their 8.2+ versions. Or their dependencies got constraints clashing with constraints from other packages. Some did not support 8.2 at the time we were evaluating everything. And 8.3 was too far away anyway (the actual work started in April '22). The amount of work during the "discuss" stage was for the most part unpredictable, so we drew the line at 8.1

preinheimer, to hiring
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Hey Folks, so we're still hiring over here at WonderProxy.

We're looking for someone with:

  • 5+ years of PHP experience
  • Some front end work (we use react)
  • Some experience working on servers. We use linux and self host.

We've got some more details here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wonderproxy/b5135fd7-ae9c-4c7d-ba13-8f1e75aa6980

oliver,
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@preinheimer now to just wait for some seismic event that would slowly move North America over the Atlantic closer to Europe. Kidding :) the time zone gap is too big for me personally, but otherwise very nice and clean job posting. I hope you'll find someone soon!

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