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Jamie York
@ziadoz.bsky.social
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I’m a web developer based in Leicestershire, UK. I enjoying working with PHP, Laravel and JS. I’m also an avid PC gamer and dog lover.
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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scott.keck-warren.com
#PHP 8.5 adds backtraces to errors so we can more easily track down problems. This is one of the features I think is going to be a game-changer for tracking down errors.

Learn about more of the new features at youtu.be/Wmsy2O_WysA

#phpc #php
#softwareenginnering
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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mims.bsky.social
There's a free iOS app called BitCam which only takes pictures like this, and I absolutely love it.

Takes me back to my earliest days with the first Mac I ever owned, a Mac Plus.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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jakearchibald.com
I tried to AI code some in-browser video decoding stuff. It made a mess.

So I learned the APIs somewhat properly, and did a much better job, but it was still messy.

Then I found mediabunny.dev and it just worked. Yay!
Mediabunny
A JavaScript library for reading, writing, and converting media files. Directly in the browser, and faster than anybunny else.
mediabunny.dev
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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danmatthews.me
Quick PHPStorm pro tip: adding "@formatter:off" to the top of a blade markdown email file will stop it automatically indenting on save and turning your entire markdown block into a code block.

This is handy because it leaves the auto-formatter on for all other blade files.
A screenshot from PHPStorm
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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jamie.build
This little snippet made debugging view transitions a lot easier
::view-transition-group(*) { animation-duration: 3000ms; } ::view-transition-group(*) { outline: 1px solid blue } ::view-transition-image-pair(*) { outline: 1px solid yellow } ::view-transition-old(*) { outline: 1px solid red } ::view-transition-new(*) { outline: 1px solid green }
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
Software in 2025
Tuba girls meme: users getting blasted with “AI”
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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laravelnews.com
The PHP 8.5 Release Page design contest is underway, and here are some of the ones in the running. Check out the GitHub issue page for a complete list and to find out more info: github.com/php/web-php/...
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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chazhutton.com
Daylight Saving Explained:
So we’ve got a big 6-panel comic here! Let’s dig in. The comic is titled ‘How to Tell if You Lost or Gained an Hour’ In the first drawing, we have the words “This is the Hour Hand” and below it is an anthropomorphic hour hand waving and saying ‘sup losers’ Next panel says “If the clocks go forward, it eats up that hour” and now our Hour character is chasing after an hour-sized wedge of a clock, screaming ‘Come Here!” while the hour goes, “AHH!” Next panel goes “But if clocks go back, it also eats that hour…” and now the hour hand is eating another house screaming ‘AAH HA HA’ while that hour runs away saying ‘Not again!’ Next panel points out that ‘In short, the hour hand is a real dick’ and theres a drawing of the hour hand smoking a cig, giving the finger and saying ‘Fuck You’ - Panel five continues the narration with “...and nobody knows what happened to the hour” and below this, there’s a policeman with a sniffer dog looking for a shallow grave in the woods. Our last panel begins “...But someone will try and explain it to you…” Below this we have one of those annoying people saying “So in Spring, the clocks spring…” but their words mean nothing because they’re talking to a grieving anthropomorphic clock, who’s missing that hour, shown by a missing wedge in their face and they’re saying “That will not bring my baby back!” Anyway, I’m really sorry if you were actually hoping to find out if we gained or lost an hour here.
October 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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css-only.dev
Getting the screen dimension with a simple calc? Yes, it's possible!

css-tip.com/screen-dimen...

We are still waiting for Firefox to join the game, and the code below will become the favorite one of many developers!

(Until then, there is another method with better support)
The following CSS code: :root { --w: calc(100vw/1px); --h: calc(100vh/1px); }
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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ishadeed.com
✍️ Solved by Modern CSS: Section Layout

A new interactive article about a typical section layout and exploring how to make it more dynamic with modern CSS. Happy reading!

ishadeed.com/article/mode...
Solved By Modern CSS: Section Layout
Building a typical section design with modern CSS.
ishadeed.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ericlbarnes.com
I had the opportunity to chat with @asgrim.dev yesterday about PHP Pie - the new installer for PHP extensions, intended to replace PECL.

Full interview dropping tomorrow.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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wesbos.com
Don't [...spread] or .split() your strings!

Use Intl.Segmenter API. Available in every JS runtime
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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brendt.bsky.social
This was a super interesting read: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73701
Build Your Own Database
A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch.
aggregate.stitcher.io
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
ziadoz.bsky.social
Are there any good PhpStorm/VS Code light themes? I’m still stuck with Atom One all these years later because frankly nothing better has come along (that I’m aware of). Seems like a lot of devs are all in on dark themes too, which doesn’t help.
October 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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seancjohnston.bsky.social
If it’s not important enough for you to create it’s not important enough to make me look at it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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threadotweets.bsky.social
@reniadeb in england, they don't say i'll kick your ass, they say i'll see you on the (photo of a sign) Public Footpath to Butt Lane
November 25, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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jhey.dev
responsive CSS pinned sidebar transition 📌

.layout:has(:popover-open) {
grid-template-columns: var(--sidebar-width) 1fr;
}
aside:popover-open {
translate: 0 var(--ctrl);
height: var(--extend);
}

actual zero JS for the layout transition here
so many details to play with! 🧑‍🍳
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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mattstauffer.com
The first three episodes of my "How to Build a Dev Team" course are live--and free--on Laracasts today!

laracasts.com/series/how-t...
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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davatron5000.bsky.social
I love a good "Do this, not that" post. And this is a good one:

Do `git reset --keep`, not `git reset --hard`

adamj.eu/tech/2024/09...
Git: avoid reset --hard, use reset --keep instead - Adam Johnson
When I started learning Git, I found many references covering two ways to undo commits with git reset:
adamj.eu
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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astrokatie.com
London continues to be a delight
Big Ben (actually Elizabeth Tower) in London at sunset, with crowds and buses A bridge across the Thames with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background The Thames at sunset with the London Eye on the horizon
October 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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lucho.cool
And this comment sums up pretty much what I've been experiencing so far:

"Working with AI feels like taking that step into management that you never wanted to take, just to be assigned to a team of kids that will swear that they understood you (to not look incompetent), but they didn't"
October 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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wesbos.com
AI coding sucks

CJ just one-shotted a 15 min rant and it's incredibly refreshing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUk...
AI Coding Sucks
YouTube video by Syntax
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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zeldman.bsky.social
Now when you feel guilty about designing a carousel, you don’t have to also feel guilty about the code you used to program it.

adactio.com/journal/22178 #FrontEnd @adactio.com #css
Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.
adactio.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM