Whenever another fixture of the 20th century leaves us, I spend a few minutes watching their clips, listening to their songs, reading their writing, or whatever they did. Gonna do that now.

RIP

And that’s just in Spain. Plenty of other Catholic countries out there, probably with similar incidence… Anyone wanna do a back of the envelope extrapolation? #lazyweb

You have it backwards - we don’t find a cool project we want to contribute to and then try to learn the technology needed. Instead, we already know the language/tech/tool from our work or education and then seek cool projects to contribute to that use that language/tech/tool.

As a beginner you can’t expect to rock up to a github project and be productive or even understand what is going on. Usually open source projects are not extensively documented and no one will have time to show you around. That is no way to learn.

No one can be productive in more than a handful of languages/tools. Once you have more experience you will become specialised in certain languages and can seek projects that use those languages.

For now, try to find a situation where there are people around who will invest time in helping you to build your skills. A supportive employer, or tertiary education.

Check out Matomo

By all means, put some effort in. Please.

The issues you raised about those sites were fixed within two hours.

https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

You could use it as part of your infrastructure. E.g. DNS server, database server, redis server, file server. But running the whole stack will be too much unless you upgrade the RAM. 1 GB minimum, preferably 2.

That feeling when you need a Trello board to keep track of all the prosecutions. Love it.

Recently I was doing some Azure integration work, with OAuth, Teams and Outlook. At one point I noticed that logging in with a MS account causes my browser to do ~10 redirects between different services while downloading over 30 MB of Javascript and thought “Huh, this looks like decades of technical debt. Either MS devs are waaay smarter than me or this is a pile of garbage”. I guess both could be true.

I would again. The mistake was continuing with it for too long.

15 years ago when I got into PHP, Python wasn’t as mature as it is now for web development. There was Django but Ruby on Rails was similar and more popular. At the time, PHP had a vibrant open source community and lots of options. It was the right choice for the moment but things have moved on. PHP got stuck trying to make PHP 6 and spun it’s wheels while Python went from strength to strength.

The time to bail on PHP was probably around or before 2015. The writing was on the wall by then. But it wasn’t until 2019 that I got into Python.

These days all my PHP work is maintenance and migration, all new work is Python-based.

“TruthGPT”, lol. Is that what you get when your training data set is 4chan and Gab posts?