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Chris Kankiewicz
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👨‍💻 Passionate PHP developer
🐧 Linux junkie
🖥️ Avid PC gamer
☕ Coffee aficionado
👫 Dedicated husband
👨‍👧‍👦 Proud father of two

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I love everything about all of these! Hope the pricing is reasonable.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thanks! The example was contrived but was there to illustrate the need to call some arbitrary method.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Probably because Halloween is on a Friday this year.
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Anyway, the problem turned out to be a bug elsewhere in the code but let this be a cautionary tale that solutions requiring people to remember about it later probably aren't the best solution.
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Fast forward a few hours and I'm working to implement the solution when I discover that WE ALREADY IMPLEMENTED THE SOLUTION FOUR YEAR AGO AND FORGOT ABOUT IT.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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And they sent it, right?
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October 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Struggling to remember the last time I even needed to use PEAR. 🤔
October 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My friend, your journey has just begun.
October 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@colinodell.com 😄 👍
September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wish I had a reason to write the date today so I could put "3²/4²/5²" and get some funny looks.
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I don't think the lack of money is why we don't (yet) have Portal 3 (or Half-Life 3, or Left 4 Dead 3, or Dota 3, or ...).
September 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Fun day. 🫠
August 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
MariaDB 11.4 included a change to require SSL and verify certificates by default thus causing the error.
August 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Following this thread we see that Debian 13 included an update of MariaDB from 10.11 to 11.8 and ...
August 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM