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michael.mstdn.thms.uk.ap.brid.gy
Full stack web developer currently working mostly with #PHP / #Laravel, Vanilla #Javascript and #SCSS. Love learning more about (almost) anything, but […] [bridged from https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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A reminder for all GitHub Action users of FediFetcher: In about 4 weeks time the GitHub Action will likely cease working, unless you perform a manual update at least once every 60 days. If you are currently running FediFetcher via GitHub Actions, please consider migrating to another option by […]

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Huh. My oldest is transitioning to secondary school this summer. As part of this the school asked us to sign a number of consent forms. So far so boring. One of them makes me hesitate though: Under GDPR/DPA they need parental consent for any online accounts he may open as he’s under 13 […]

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My kid stumbled upon a way to circumvent parental controls on iOS this week. So at 11 years old he’s today submitted his first bug bounty entry (is that the correct phrase?) to Apple. Let’s see if they say it qualifies …

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I have posted about this before, but wanted to re-iterate how much in love I am with FediAlgo: I’m currently on paternity leave so have around half an hour per day for social. That is of course far from enough to keep up with a chronological timeline like mine, and previously with Mastodon the […]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So it looks as though Tailscale treats any domain they don’t know as business domain. As a result if you sign up with any email address [@]random-new-email-provider.example that they’ve never heard of, they’ll group you into one tailnet with all other users of that provider. How on earth did […]

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

hey @cryptadamist , I'm wondering if I could pick your brain for a minute: I'm trying to update my version of fedialgo, but I'm stuck on v0.39.2. I know my code is up to date (git log below). I’ve run npm install and npm run built. I’ve cleared all caches […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

#FediAlgo will now slowly penalize and remove toots from your feed after you've already seen them (at a configurable rate). https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114518687892123058 #activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS […]

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Spent some time teaching my kids (and my wife, lol) how to do laundry today and they ask me ‘who taught you how to do laundry?’ ‘My mum’ ‘did you have washing machines when you were a kid?’

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Who started a BBQ?! 😡 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wdpwv9n3jo

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The fine @michael has deployed the #FediAlgo demo app to a place where you can test out the customizable algorithm + filtering system for your home timeline with nothing more than a web browser. You can find it here: https://fedialgo.thms.uk/ Here's a video of the FediAlgo demo in action […]

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I've been playing around with @cryptadamist ‘s FediAlgo Demo App, and I think it's really really cool! Highlight some very interesting posts! I may install it on my server and make it available to myself. https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed #mastoadmin #fedialgo

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This looks promising: https://spatie.be/blog/a-package-to-handle-passkeys-in-laravel #laravel

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

So my 11 year old is doing coding. Primarily at the moment PHP. He's currently using VS Code, but I would love him to use PhpStorm, as it's so much better for PHP. But obviously he doesn’t have the money to pay for it. I know PhpStorm has free licenses for University and High School students […]

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The Online Safety Act is such a terrible piece of legislation! And Ofcom deciding the enforce it in the strictest possible way makes it even worse! https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/wikipedias-nonprofit-host-brings-legal-challenge-to-new-online-safety-act-osa-regulations-0f9153102f29

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

One of the joys of family life is how we share everything! Last week kid no 1 started vomiting. A few days later the MIL (still staying with us to help after the birth of baby). A few days after that the OH. This morning kid no 2. it’s like real life dominoes. 4 down. 2 to go…

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Well, here is reason number 1 Million and 1 why Open AI sucks: It appears as though OpenAI's crawler is crawling the web with tracing headers set. Wasting even more resources than they already do by instructing all the tracing libraries out their to trace all of OpenAI's requests […]

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I really do like PHP8.4’s new `Dom\HTMLDocument` class! This is a good write-up, I think: https://liamhammett.com/php-84s-new-domhtmldocument-in-diffs #php

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, back to good ol' racism... > ‘Sorry mate. Wrong skin colour. We can't accept your passport application.’ At what stage do they rename Labour to New Tories? Or New Reform? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0wd75ne82o?utm_source=mastodon

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I hate Royal Mail! Buying postage for a letter to Germany online, and their system insists I must fill in a customs declaration. You can blame Brexit all you want, but a simple birthday card does not need a customs declaration! They even insist on a Commodity Code! This is madness! 😡

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I’m suddenly feeling a lot better about my DIY skills 😂😂😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYUK/s/Tevb78Dkk9 (You must read the comments though - they are the best part!)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Calling all FediFetcher users who are currently running FediFetcher as a GitHub Action: Following recent changes by GitHub, and following the poll I was running, which showed that only a single respondent actually relies on GitHub Actions to run FediFetcher, GitHub Action support for […]

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve managed to fix all known bugs in our app! 🥳💪

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I think this might be the first time I remember that we actually have it warmer at home in London than the in-laws in Cairo ☀️ 😎 🏖️

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry to spam y’all, but if you are using FediFetcher and running it as GitHub Action, I’d really appreciate it if you could vote in this poll: Thanks! #fedifetcher #singleUserInstance #mastoadmin https://mstdn.thms.uk/@michael/114420962728564499

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments