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"According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach in 2024 was $4.88 million." Um, yikes. The kind of prevention my team does is certainly a lot cheaper. People really don't like to think about risks. www.zend.com/blog/php-exp...

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🇺🇦 Donations give us wings (or propellers). afilina.com/donate/harmata

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We've done it! The Zend PHP Certification is back on the menu! www.zend.com/training/php...

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It's dangerous to go alone. Take these strategies for hardening PHP applications from my colleague Mike Pavlak. www.zend.com/blog/php-har...

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If hell exists, 100% sure the pope was sent there.

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Energy saving tip when using Google: To avoid AI, just add "-fucking" or "-shit" or similar at the end of your query. Google sees the cuss word and turns off AI. The minus says "don't include results with this word". Obviously if you want the result with that word, just leave off the minus.

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Last day to get your early-bird tickets for the greatest international #Symfony conference, held in Amsterdam November 27+28!

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Wow, this is well done and funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJQ...

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Is your team using PHP? Ever wanted to have an architect on speed dial? Now you can. I designed this cool new Black Belt service so you can book consultations in a flexible way. www.zend.com/services/bla...

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We got tired of illiberal voices dominating the social media space and decided to create our own podcast, The Free World, to fight back against this infestation. With me, @drewpavlou.bsky.social and @derparrot.bsky.social as the hosts, we discuss geopolitics, etc. youtube.com/@freeworldco...

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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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The PHP Foundation's 2024 Transparency & Impact Report is out! Learn about our work to support PHP's future. Read more: thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03...

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Random knowledge: List of scientists whose names are used as units. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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🔔 #PHP object-mapper library Valinor v1.15.0 was released! A new compilation feature is introduced in this release. It required huge efforts and a lot of time. If you appreciate it, please consider sponsoring my work: github.com/CuyZ/Valinor... 🤗 Release notes: github.com/CuyZ/Valinor...

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In response to outright hostile crawling by AI companies, some websites go as far as serving them fake content to poison their models. An understandable response. AI models trained on public data will become increasingly useless though, and it's their own fault. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...

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The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site. The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/

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Interesting: 67% were confident in their security, yet 39% still had apps on PHP 7.4. Many had even older PHP. Even more surprising: some migrated to PHP 5.6 or older, so the journey is still long. I really wish our team could get its hands on all this code and get it to PHP 8.4! ter.li/x1fm5u

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American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6

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The Worst Programmer I Know | Dan North & Associates Limited https://dannorth.net/the-worst-programmer/

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I guess it makes sense that a Kennedy would attempt to assassinate everyone else

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The legacy PHP code's reaction after I add a single type declaration.