Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day

Age like a fine wine

#Symfony turns 20! 🥳 Two decades of code, community, and innovation — 20 candles and counting! Grateful for every contributor who’s made this journey possible 🫶 #PHP

The deeper you go into the semiconductor supply chain, the less believable it becomes. > TSMC, a company on a small island, produces over 90% of the world’s most advanced chips > TSMC relies on dutch company ASML for EUV lithography machines > ASML depends on German Company Carl Zeiss, the only firm in the world capable of making mirrors precise enough for ASML’s requirements. > The light source for ASML’s EUV machines is produced by a single company in San Diego. > The photoresists used to print transistor patterns are produced by Japanese firms like JSR and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo. > The ultra-pure quartz needed to make silicon wafers comes entirely from a single mine in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. > The copper and rare-earth materials inside chips are mined and refined across Chile, the Congo, and China. > The specialized gases used in chipmaking, like neon and fluorine, largely come from Ukraine and Japan. > The design blueprints for these chips often come from American companies like NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple, which rely on software tools from U.S. firms like Synopsys and Cadence. Remove any single piece and the whole system collapses.

This week, Figure has passed 5 months running on the BMW X3 body shop production line We have been running 10 hours per day, every single day of production! It is believed that Figure and BMW are the first in the world to do this with humanoid robots

Cloudflare ended up DDoSing itself due to React's useEffect hook 🫠

we really had it all man bootstrap was supposed to win now we have soyjack thumbnails devs telling us we need a server for a header component

If money couldn't buy me the freedom to work on Omarchy for the sheer love of computers, what good would it be?

Javascript on the backend was a mistake

🙌 Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend ➡️ symfony.com/blog/remembering…

Reality check: 1. Most web apps are just CRUD. 2. PHP + SQL + JS works for many real-world web projects like dashboards, portals, e-commerce, and booking systems. 3. Modern hardware + PHP 8 + OPcache = blazing fast. "PHP is slow" died with 5.x.

ORMs are great — until you know SQL.

shut up and USE postgres;

The outcome is a decoupled architecture that is simple to test, maintain, and scale. It combines functional safety with OOP structure, creating a professional standard for development IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE !!! #SoftwareArchitecture #DesignPatterns #CleanCode #SOLID

This structure provides clear benefits: -> Immutable data prevents side effects -> Single-action classes enforce the Single Responsibility Principle -> Constructor injection makes your logic perfectly testable in isolation

Here is how you can build cleaner, robust software: -> Use immutable objects for data -> Use single-action classes for logic -> Inject all dependencies through the constructor

This way of thinking MUST BE GONE! That’s the number one reason why we are in this OOP mess in the first place. There’s just 2 things: 1. immutable data 2. functions that operate in that data

Me getting ready to win another project by telling the client "Don't worry, we won't be using microservices or Serverless, you'll get a nice simple single deployable unit to run with a start/stop/restart button in the Azure console" while the other vendors pitch a k8s "platform"

This is great!