stevegrunwell

stevegrunwell, 10 months ago to random

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.

stevegrunwell, 3 months ago to wordpress

Some important context as this news breaks:

#WordPress is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org.

One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of #Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and owns #Tumblr.

They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, not self-hosted WordPress instances.

BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬

https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466

stevegrunwell, 9 months ago to random

Company: We’re adding AI to $product to make it easier than ever for our users to do $action!

Users: Could you please fix those long-standing bugs first? Those are the biggest pain points in our workflows.

Company: lol no.

stevegrunwell, 9 months ago to random

Unsolicited career advice for staff+ engineers:

If someone complements your team, take the time to call out particular members by name.

You’re staff+, and should be visible enough (especially my fellow cishet white dudes). Instead, make it impossible for management to ignore the team members who actually get shit done while you’re in meetings about how we can get shit done faster.

stevegrunwell, 2 months ago to php

Hey, I blogged!

This time, it’s all about #PHP value objects.

As a bonus, the banner image is my cat, Taco, peeking out of a drawer. It also happens to be the lock screen photo on my iPad and never fails to make me smile.

https://stevegrunwell.com/blog/php-value-objects/

stevegrunwell, 7 months ago to random

Sorry, not sorry #LonghornPHP

stevegrunwell, 7 months ago to random

Welp, it’s #ElectionDay.

Please remember to vote affirmatively for things that protect people from Christofascism. Yes on reproductive freedom. Yes on schools. Yes on democracy.

#YesOnOhioIssue1

stevegrunwell, 11 months ago to random

So this arrived in the mail today. It’s a shame that @ericmann’s latest book is sullied by some jerk having a quote on the back cover 😅

You can get your copy anywhere fine O’Reilly books are sold, but this affiliate link will earn Eric a little extra: https://amzn.to/3V3ExHE

The back cover of the book, including a summary, quote, and brief bio of Eric
A close-up of the quote: “Eric has distilled his extensive experience in the PHP community into one digestible book. Strongly recommended for new and veteran PHP developers alike!” The quote is credited to Steve Grunwell (that’s me!), a Staff Software Engineer at Mailchimp

stevegrunwell, 9 months ago to random

If the expectation is that every issue should be assigned the highest priority, was it really worth spending the time on triage? 🤔

stevegrunwell, 10 months ago to Ohio

The AP has called the #Ohio #SpecialElection in favor of the "No, you may not strip us of rights you fascist fucks" side.

I'm still going to be on edge until it's official, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

Assuming this lead holds and we did indeed win, take some time to celebrate but be ready to vote again on November 7. We'll have one (possibly two 🤞) state-wide issues:

1. Protecting the right to bodily-autonomy re: reproductive health
2. Legalization of rec. cannabis (pending)

stevegrunwell, 1 month ago to random

“I’m not Ben Fucking Ramsey, Steve” — Ben Fucking Ramsey #phptek

stevegrunwell, 7 months ago to random

“Using dollar signs and arrows vs no dollar sign and periods. Those are the only differences between PHP and JavaSceipt, right?” — @ramsey #LonghornPHP

stevegrunwell, 10 months ago to AWS

“Yeah, we use #AWS”

stevegrunwell, 11 months ago to wordpress

I’m glad to hear that #WordPress is finally dropping PHP 5.x support in the upcoming release. Years later than it should have happened, but better late than never.

If you hadn’t upgraded because your host didn’t offer 7.x+, that’s a negligent, garbage host. Run.

If you didn’t upgrade because you “maintain” the server yourself, you’re asleep at the wheel.

If you were limited because a plugin you rely upon is PHP 5.x only, chances are you have even bigger problems that should be addressed NOW.

stevegrunwell, 3 months ago to random

I found #JohnMastdon at the Toledo #zoo!

stevegrunwell, 1 month ago to php

Hey #phptek, less than two hours until we talk about #PHP on the #CLI. Be there or be…in another session more aligned with your interests and/or learning goals.

Or taking time for yourself (remember: we’re only halfway through the conference and it’s important to pace yourself).

Or building lifelong friendships with fellow attendees.

I hope you spend the 3pm hour with me, but however you choose to spend it I hope you enjoy!

stevegrunwell, 7 months ago to random

Ben @ramsey trying to pronounce “numeronyms”

That’s the toot.

stevegrunwell, 4 months ago to RSS

I have really been enjoying this resurgence of #RSS. A couple times a week lately I’ve been seeing someone promote their newsletters or have their comics get boosted here, and I “share” the link with @NetNewsWire to subscribe.

Feeds are synced via iCloud, so I can read them whenever I have an idle moment on my phone, tablet, or laptop.

stevegrunwell, 2 months ago to random

Great post from @linc on the role that dedicated QA/Test Engineers play in #SoftwareDevelopment.

https://lincolnwebs.com/2024/03/23/devaluing-quality/

stevegrunwell, 1 month ago to random

When I was revamping "Up to my Eyeballs in Technical Debt!" talk (11am Central tomorrow morning here at #phptek!) I wrote a whole section on the #AdapterPattern, which I then had to cut out for time.

I ended up writing a blog post about it instead, which I just published: https://stevegrunwell.com/blog/adapter-pattern/

stevegrunwell, 1 month ago to random

I'm so grateful for the room full of folks looking to deal with their #TechnicalDebt this morning at #phptek, thank you!

My slides are available at https://stevegrunwell.com/slides/technical-debt, and the README for the slides include links to all sorts of resources (including the Adapter Pattern blog post I mentioned: https://stevegrunwell.com/blog/adapter-pattern)

stevegrunwell, 6 days ago to random

Sweet, just got my lifetime license for sirenaffiliates.com! Looking forward to checking this out, @alexstandiford!!

stevegrunwell, 5 months ago to random

Happy “High-Anxiety Because I Have to Go Back to Work Tomorrow” Day to all who celebrate 🙃

exchgr, 3 months ago to random

how did it take me this long to realize automattic is a pun