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Philadelphia father of two. Mostly talking about PHP/Laravel/React on here. He/him. On the web @ https://cmorrell.com Podcasting @ https://overengineered.fm/ On mastodon @ https://rtsn.dev/@chris Formerly @ https://twitter.com/inxilpro
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Have you ever scanned a dirty or crumpled up QR code, *certain* it wouldn't work, and then it instantly does? They're built to be really resilient! Here's a guide I put together, full of interactive visuals to show the design choices in the QR spec. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-qr-codes-work

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

OK, what do we think of the new Wicked trailer? I’ll go first: I’M SO EXCITED!

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Remember kids, women are too emotional to lead.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently there are a decent number of Switch 2's in store right now. Got get one and then let's all play Mario Kart together!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

10000000% agreed- Craftsmanship matters. Good AI tools can help us do that.

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"They're ultimately going to let you do more of what you love and less of what you hate." This is ultimately what i'm going to try and get out of LLMs - not "doing the work for me", but automating away chunks of tedious things that can be machine-read and done easily.

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Ooh! Just got my Switch 2 shipment notification :) I know what I’ll be doing this weekend!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

OK, I have a few more thoughts about the AI article I shared yesterday: cmorrell.com/llms-in-mid-...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

📅 Reminder PHP×Philly is meeting tonight at 6:30pm! Come join us :) phpxphilly.com/meetups/3064...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Just over 2 weeks until our next meetup! Have you RSVP’d yet? phpxstl.com/meetups/3129...

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OK, this is a pretty solid take on LLMs.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Oof. This is definitely me.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Check out Whimsy, a new tiny game engine for storytellers. 📣 Inspired by Bitsy, it's browser-based & uses node-programming to help you create interactive narrative games, even if you're new to game dev. Full post: dev.to/cosmomyzrail...

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It's less than a week until our next meet up, where @jessarcher.bsky.social fields your questions on Nightwatch! Drop 'em below 👇👇

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Kyla absolutely nails it. "The invisible rules that used to hold everything together like the rules about paying attention, about looking out for one another, about knowing where you’re supposed to be are just… gone." Highly recommend that you take some time to read this today.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Sam wins.

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A couple years ago I set up our ansible deploy script to install my custom zsh theme to remote hosts (as well as my common aliases/etc). It's been *so* nice.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Hey look, `cron` is 50 year old this month. Kinda wild that it remains the dominant way to schedule tasks today…

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

📢 PHP×Tokyoスピーカ/トークのお知らせ PHP×Tokyo 6月版の2番目スピーカ/トークを発表します！ "Make development faster with Cursor AI" by Karthick K (@ikkarti)! #php #phpxtky #phpxtokyo

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Make sure you've got this one in your calendar folks! What better way to lead into the long weekend than by hanging (virtually) with @jessarcher.bsky.social as we discuss her team's incredible Nightwatch product.

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Today I learned that a domain name can be no more than 63 characters (if they're ASCII). So of course I went out and bought: the-really-exceptionally-long-domain-name-that-belongs-to-chris.com

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

We occasionally have tests that only fail every once in a while. I wrote a `DebuggingDataProvider` class that just has methods for 1,000–50,000 iterations so that I can quickly run the test many times to find a failure. I don't have to do it often, but when I use it it's such a life saver.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

this phpstorm feature has saved my ass so many times…

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