@Tylae Closer to show time, might ping you on Discord the talks I'm interested in. And if you happen to already be planning on attending them, than heck yea.
Technically was a few days ago, but I got all my flights and hotel and such booked for #cascadiaphp! I'll unfortunately be missing the first day as I've got a Board of Trustees meeting scheduled at the same time, but I'll be there the last two days!
Now the question is, who can I bribe with food and/or booze to attend the sessions I'm gonna miss and take notes? 😜
On campus today at St. Edwards University for the Lucian Symposium. Can't wait to learn more about STEM and Democracy: Voting and Representation.
This image is a flyer for an event titled “A Symposium on STEM and Democracy: Voting and Representation”, taking place on Friday, September 27, 2024. The event will feature invited speakers in Carter Auditorium (JBWS 186), and a student poster session on the first floor of JBWN from 2:00 to 3:30 PM. Key details: • 8:50 am: Welcome by Dean Jonathan Hodge, PhD. • 9:00 am: Understanding Decision-Making for Running Elections, presented by Ted Allen, PhD, Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering and Computer Science Engineering (Courtesy) at The Ohio State University. • 10:00 am: Securing the 2024 Election, presented by Matthew Bernhard, PhD, Director of Security and Special Projects at Enhanced Voting. • 11:00 am: The Mathematics of Fairness in Political Representation, presented by Jennifer Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Eugene Lang College, The New School. The event is brought to attendees by the Brother Lucian Blersch Endowment and the School of Natural Sciences at St. Edward’s University.
For 31 years of my life I never had an incident with spilling a drink on any of my laptops. Got in a hot tube with my Blackberry in my pocket once, but I had a spare and knew how to replace all the broken parts so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Twice. Twice this year I've had a spilled drink instance. And both times on my work laptop. Now IT gets to know I'm a dumb dumb, instead of just me and a random Apple store employee. And I guess the 10s of followers on here lol.
Fuckles
The last time this happened near the beginning of the year, I paid out of pocket to increase my work machines warranty to the full coverage to get it repaired/replaced. That way the company doesn't have to waste money on a whole new machine. That warranty is still in place.
IT is now causing my boss headaches, as they understandably think I'm careless with an expensive machine. I get the feeling, but accidents happens I even have an easy fix for them, but might wind up with a Windows instead :/
My Alma matter is hosting a symposium tomorrow, and the dean of Natural Sciences (where computer science lives at St. Edward’s university) invited me to dinner tonight with the speakers.
I feel like I’m lacking some words to fully describe it, but being surrounded and talking to professors or academia just feels natural. Like I’m at home and with “my people.”
I still want to do private sector things, and make private sector money for the bills but man is becoming a CS professor looking temptn
@nunomaduro Hey Nuno, I've got a crazy idea that I want to run by you before I completely dive into it re: Pinkary. What are your thoughts on, or interest in, making Pinkary ActivityPub/"Mastodon" compliant?
I started working on a Laravel version of Cloudflares Wildebeast project, but I think putting that work towards making Pinkary Fediverse compatible would be better use of time. Thoughts?
(I can open a Github Issue/Discussion if that's better)
@chris The timing of this and the comments I just made in the TexasPHP Slack about Wordpress is just.. incredible in all the wrong ways.
Maybe I should port those comments to here for people to read and/or ignore lol
I was and still am skeptical of "AI" or more accurately the proliferation of LLMs. But, I think some nuance in the discussions around it have been lost overtime. I actually think the reason I'm a skeptic, and why that nuance has been lost are interlinked though: Capitalism/Hype Bandwagoning.
Companies are just chasing $$$ by following a fad, enshitifying their products in the process. But I do think there are applications that can be actually useful to its end users, and profitable to business
The example currently on my mind comes from what I'm doing at work. And that despite my heavy skepticism, I've become "Mr. AI" at my job.
Currently I'm working on an AI powered chat experience that homeowners can interact with to answer questions about their improvement projects and even get dynamic cost estimation from some of our APIs. It costs the homeowner nothing to use, but eventually (what I'm currently doing anyway) it will have a monetization/conversion hook added to the flow.
Do I hate this persistent march to monetize any and every aspect of the human condition? Hell yes, it's garbage for species and society.
But it can be done in a natural way that isn't so in your face. If a homeowner is asking questions about doing kitchen renovation, on our site designed to help them find both the information and contractors to help/do the work, there is a non-forced way to eventually ask "wanna fill out this form to find contractors?"
That doesn't sound inherently "evil"
Looking for advice here. How would (or do you) go about writing down how you do something? I don’t necessarily mean a how-to guide or tutorial, but the actual steps or process you take to accomplish something. For example, I’ve been asked/suggested to give a presentation how I do my software architecting job. And all that comes up in my mind is “idk I just do it?” The approach can change from situation to situation, so I don’t exactly have a 1, 2, 3 step guide I could present.
@chris this is gonna be a fun read in the morning lol
@chris I went from "I don't know who the hell this guy is" to "surface level, points make sense, but there's gotta be a better way than being an ass about it".
Or as I just saw, "there's gotta be a better way that doesn't get you and the company you represent sued" lol.
I also think you're out of WPE and WordPress if I remember correctly so, probably being overly cautious on my end but don't want to also come across as an ass while gaining more context.
@chris Don't disagree with the hypocrisy one bit. The guy seems to be throwing rocks from his glass house, or whatever that saying is.
I like your initial questions, I think they are fare, and I don't have a solid answer as I'm just not familiar at all with the Wordpress scene semi by choice and opinion of the project, mostly by circumstance. But I think they could be applied to WPE as well.
Not discrediting your work on Faust FWIW in case it came off that way.
@chris Apologies for basically re-opening the wound more or less, but outside of Matt's delivery being... dickish, the comments didn't seem outlandish to me. If WPE is profiting off the landscape but not contributing, etc. that seems bad.
I mean I know WPE has some PHP related tech that would be great for the community, but isn't sharing. Which is their prerogative, but a bummer.
@joby @theblackdog @hacks4pancakes @Girgias You're a saint Joby, this is incredible. Thank you!
@joby @theblackdog @hacks4pancakes @Girgias Hell I’d throw money directly at you to know how to setup and use this autounattend file. It sounds great
I still can’t figure out what I want to use the domain neighbors.social for.. outside of a “give Namecheap money yearly” bucket.
Inspired by the recent “parse, don't validate" conversations, I had the thought to make a composer package for #Laravel that basically replaced the FormRequest concept with a “ParsedRequest" concept. Effectively defining a request object that instead of running input through the validator, it would parse the input onto your custom ParsedRequest and have everything just there and typed.
Currently stuck on if ParsedRequest should extend FormRequest to keep validation func. still working, or not.
The high of finally figuring something out, and getting a test to pass cannot be beat. At least not without doing actual drugs that get you high, but I digress.
I have the beginnings of sticking @Romm's Valinor project into the #Laravel framework. Basic Laravel bindings and configuration are done for a 0.0.1 version. And finally got a working PoC for a ParsedRequest idea I have to compliment/replace FormRequests. Much more to go
I’ve kinda lost my programming “muse” at the moment, but don’t necessarily want to let this project idea die on the vine. So I’ve made https://github.com/hskrasek/laravel-valinor public in case anyone is inspired and would love to see Valinor incorporated into #Laravel. Will hopefully have the motivation to return to the idea in the future.
It’s weird to seesaw from finally feeling somewhat hopeful this year, after politics in my country made a turn for the better, to this feeling of being unmoored from reality/society. I know that sounds like dissociating, but this isn’t that. I unfortunately am quite familiar with what that feels like.
This is more just being unhappy with, and unable to connect with what is our current reality. That knowing that we as a people could do better, but don’t. And seemingly won’t, anytime soon. 🙃
What is the cut off point where an object passes from 3D to 2D? Paper is often used as the example of a 2D object, but technically paper has a third dimension. Its height, while incredibly small, still exists. Tried to look it up… and got a bunch of AutoCAD tutorials, which isn’t really what I wanted lol