Ben Ramsey
@ramsey.dev
Coder, Author, & Speaker. PHP 8.1 & 8.2 RM. ramsey/uuid. Open Source. Staff+ Engineer. he/him
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Co-admin of https://phpc.social
All original content © me & licensed CC […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://phpc.social/@ramsey, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
How would you declare a parameter as needing to be an invokable object? Would you use `object & callable` or is there a better way?
#php
#php
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
How would you declare a parameter as needing to be an invokable object? Would you use `object & callable` or is there a better way?
#php
#php
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@Viss I think the challenge we are approaching is that the genAI tools are able to generate far more code than can reasonably be reviewed by a person while at the same time businesses are using that code production ability as leverage to decrease the number of developers leaving even fewer […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
@Viss I think the challenge we are approaching is that the genAI tools are able to generate far more code than can reasonably be reviewed by a person while at the same time businesses are using that code production ability as leverage to decrease the number of developers leaving even fewer […]
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Do you ever sit and think about how it was probably Claud Code that let the Cylons take over humanity's computer systems? Me neither.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Do you ever sit and think about how it was probably Claud Code that let the Cylons take over humanity's computer systems? Me neither.
The headline is click-bait, & I feared it would argue for the same form of eugenics that Hitler was fond of himself, but the article is well written and goes to great lengths to emphasize that “genetics is only one part of the puzzle in determining who someone will become” and “it is not […]
Original post on phpc.social
phpc.social
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The headline is click-bait, & I feared it would argue for the same form of eugenics that Hitler was fond of himself, but the article is well written and goes to great lengths to emphasize that “genetics is only one part of the puzzle in determining who someone will become” and “it is not […]
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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
RE: https://mas.to/@muskanity/115568795897963479
When I go, I hope I have a friend who I can text just moments before my passing something like, “We have gone on so many adventures together! But, into the great unknown! I go first!!!”
When I go, I hope I have a friend who I can text just moments before my passing something like, “We have gone on so many adventures together! But, into the great unknown! I go first!!!”
mas.to
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
RE: https://mas.to/@muskanity/115568795897963479
When I go, I hope I have a friend who I can text just moments before my passing something like, “We have gone on so many adventures together! But, into the great unknown! I go first!!!”
When I go, I hope I have a friend who I can text just moments before my passing something like, “We have gone on so many adventures together! But, into the great unknown! I go first!!!”
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Since a scrub is a guy "hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, trying to holla at" women, then he's looking for a woman to holla back: a hollaback Girl.
So, if you say that you ain't no hollaback girl, that just means that you don't want no scrub.
#showerthoughts #fyi #psa […]
So, if you say that you ain't no hollaback girl, that just means that you don't want no scrub.
#showerthoughts #fyi #psa […]
Original post on microwords.goodevilgenius.org
microwords.goodevilgenius.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Since a scrub is a guy "hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, trying to holla at" women, then he's looking for a woman to holla back: a hollaback Girl.
So, if you say that you ain't no hollaback girl, that just means that you don't want no scrub.
#showerthoughts #fyi #psa […]
So, if you say that you ain't no hollaback girl, that just means that you don't want no scrub.
#showerthoughts #fyi #psa […]
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"hey what does your database do?"
"uhhh Ads and anlytics mostly"
"... and aaaaalso?"
"And also high energy physics at CERN."
"uhhh Ads and anlytics mostly"
"... and aaaaalso?"
"And also high energy physics at CERN."
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"hey what does your database do?"
"uhhh Ads and anlytics mostly"
"... and aaaaalso?"
"And also high energy physics at CERN."
"uhhh Ads and anlytics mostly"
"... and aaaaalso?"
"And also high energy physics at CERN."
“Cursor leads to…a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity…the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to software development, with practitioners claiming a multifold productivity increase after adoption. Yet, empirical evidence is lacking around these claims. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of adopting a widely popular LLM agent assistant, namely Cursor, on development velocity and software quality. The estimation is enabled by a state-of-the-art difference-in-differences design comparing Cursor-adopting GitHub projects with a matched control group of similar GitHub projects that do not use Cursor. We find that the adoption of Cursor leads to a significant, large, but transient increase in project-level development velocity, along with a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity. Further panel generalized method of moments estimation reveals that the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown. Our study carries implications for software engineering practitioners, LLM agent assistant designers, and researchers.
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Cursor leads to…a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity…the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
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November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Reposted by Ben Ramsey
Apparently the lesson Brendan Carr learned from the Kimmel debacle is that he didn't actually have any consequences for abusing his power to violate the 1st Amendment, so he's just going to keep at it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Apparently the lesson Brendan Carr learned from the Kimmel debacle is that he didn't actually have any consequences for abusing his power to violate the 1st Amendment, so he's just going to keep at it.
I’m now going on about 2-days of constant, intense anger over Megyn Kelly’s remarks. I just can’t even!
She has a 14-year-old daughter herself, and she was once 15 years old (I assume). How can she say such things?
It’s the same line of thinking that gets us, “it’s just locker-room talk,” and […]
She has a 14-year-old daughter herself, and she was once 15 years old (I assume). How can she say such things?
It’s the same line of thinking that gets us, “it’s just locker-room talk,” and […]
Original post on phpc.social
phpc.social
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’m now going on about 2-days of constant, intense anger over Megyn Kelly’s remarks. I just can’t even!
She has a 14-year-old daughter herself, and she was once 15 years old (I assume). How can she say such things?
It’s the same line of thinking that gets us, “it’s just locker-room talk,” and […]
She has a 14-year-old daughter herself, and she was once 15 years old (I assume). How can she say such things?
It’s the same line of thinking that gets us, “it’s just locker-room talk,” and […]
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This is the energy we need: a 14yo taking to social media to explain to Megyn Kelly what a 14/15 yo is—a child.
The GOP has no shame in large part because Dems don’t shame them. And the media is too scared to.
Bring back shame. And consequences.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dvj96A/
The GOP has no shame in large part because Dems don’t shame them. And the media is too scared to.
Bring back shame. And consequences.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dvj96A/
Here’s a reminder from an actual 14 year old about what a child even IS. If adults are out here debating the “acceptable age” of abuse, then kids aren’t the ones who need to grow up. ✨sources✨ https:/...
TikTok video by eloise
www.tiktok.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is the energy we need: a 14yo taking to social media to explain to Megyn Kelly what a 14/15 yo is—a child.
The GOP has no shame in large part because Dems don’t shame them. And the media is too scared to.
Bring back shame. And consequences.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dvj96A/
The GOP has no shame in large part because Dems don’t shame them. And the media is too scared to.
Bring back shame. And consequences.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dvj96A/
RE: c.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://phpc.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
phpc.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
RE: c.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://phpc.social/@thephpf/115526019992520326
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
Know someone who might be a great fit for the Executive Director position at @thephpf? Forward this on to them and encourage them to apply!
#php
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fosdem/115547188621250908
Just a few days left! I submitted by proposal just now.
Just a few days left! I submitted by proposal just now.
fosstodon.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fosdem/115547188621250908
Just a few days left! I submitted by proposal just now.
Just a few days left! I submitted by proposal just now.
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'So let’s rewrite the new OWASP item. It’s not “Software Supply Chain Failures”. It’s more accurate to say “Collection of random software I found in the couch cushions that I don’t understand and we don’t know where most of it comes from”.'
nicely phrased by @joshbressers […]
nicely phrased by @joshbressers […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
'So let’s rewrite the new OWASP item. It’s not “Software Supply Chain Failures”. It’s more accurate to say “Collection of random software I found in the couch cushions that I don’t understand and we don’t know where most of it comes from”.'
nicely phrased by @joshbressers […]
nicely phrased by @joshbressers […]
“You’d be wise to avoid anyone claiming to understand open source, they are basically a bigfoot expert who has never seen bigfoot.”
https://anchore.com/blog/supply-chain-security-made-the-owasp-top-ten-this-changes-nothing/
https://anchore.com/blog/supply-chain-security-made-the-owasp-top-ten-this-changes-nothing/
Supply Chain Security made the OWASP Top Ten, this changes nothing
Explore the OWASP Top Ten and understand persistent security issues in technology that need more than just temporary fixes.
anchore.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“You’d be wise to avoid anyone claiming to understand open source, they are basically a bigfoot expert who has never seen bigfoot.”
https://anchore.com/blog/supply-chain-security-made-the-owasp-top-ten-this-changes-nothing/
https://anchore.com/blog/supply-chain-security-made-the-owasp-top-ten-this-changes-nothing/
It’s been a while since I’ve purchased a new console, and I was thinking about going with PS5 when I did, but now, I think I’m going with Steam Machine by Valve. 2026 will be the year of Linux on the gaming console!
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It’s been a while since I’ve purchased a new console, and I was thinking about going with PS5 when I did, but now, I think I’m going with Steam Machine by Valve. 2026 will be the year of Linux on the gaming console!
My life as a middle-aged person: “Please set up a meeting to review this, otherwise I’ll forget.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
My life as a middle-aged person: “Please set up a meeting to review this, otherwise I’ll forget.”
OH: Kerberos is identity based encryption in the same way that a hot dog is a sandwich.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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the sysadmins dont want you to know this but there are ports below port 20. nobody knows what they do, physicists suspect it might be related to dark matter. the government agencies scrub all mentions of these ports off the open internet. i am revealing all of this to you at great risk to my life,
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
the sysadmins dont want you to know this but there are ports below port 20. nobody knows what they do, physicists suspect it might be related to dark matter. the government agencies scrub all mentions of these ports off the open internet. i am revealing all of this to you at great risk to my life,
Reposted by Ben Ramsey
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM