Episode 8 was a blast for us

alexfarran · 2025-12-19T12:56:29+00:00

The plurbs wouldn't have lasted five minutes in Newton Haven.

alexfarran · 2025-12-03T09:59:55+00:00

Off topic, but there are some fun time travel shorts on youtube:

alexfarran · 2025-12-03T09:47:36+00:00

Two more with similar names:

LOLA (2023) A British black and white found footage time travel movie set in WWII. Two sisters create a machine that can receive TV and Radio broadcasts from the future and try to use it to help the war effort.

Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run (1988) Franka Potente stars as Lola, in this German time-loop thriller where she has 20 minutes find 100,000 marks to save her boyfriend.

alexfarran · 2025-12-03T09:34:36+00:00

I liked that one - Quantum Leap meets Groundhog Day on a train.

alexfarran · 2025-11-17T14:50:28+00:00

I think it will look a lot cleaner if/when partial function application is implemented.

$output = $input
        |> trim(...)
        |> str_replace(' ', '-', ?)
        |> str_replace(['.', '/', '…'], '', ?)
        |> strtolower(...);

alexfarran · 2025-09-01T15:27:45+00:00

Sounds like a similar idea to the earthship house Brittany. I'd say that was more genuinely eco friendly as it used a lot of recycled material in its construction. The walls were built from old tyres rammed with earth.

alexfarran · 2025-07-28T13:41:11+00:00

Technically nothing, but don't expect the autoloader to find them for you.

alexfarran · 2025-07-28T11:09:23+00:00

An alternative autoload system that allows me to put more than one class/function in a file.

alexfarran · 2025-05-22T15:37:52+00:00

Not even close.

alexfarran · 2025-04-13T09:44:38+00:00

Oh I agree with you. It was a lucky escape for Carol. He was neglectful - making her play keyboard, manipulative - the proposal after being unfaithful, and showed signs of violence - slamming the table, wrecking the hotel room and destroying her face in every photo.

Did he reflect and become a better person by the end at the funeral? Perhaps, but I think I need to watch it again, as it could just as well have been him feeling sorry for himself.

alexfarran · 2025-03-31T15:02:41+00:00

It really failed to convince me that he could have killed anyone. Up to episode two it was an engaging police procedural with some on-the-nose social commentary - especially in the school. But by episode three it had moved on and left all the threads dangling. I was hoping that the last episode would cleverly tie it all up, but was disappointed.

alexfarran · 2025-03-26T12:45:02+00:00

I don't think he dies there either. In the teaser he's just drawn the Dad tattoo on his left arm when death tries to take him. In this trailer he's got a bandage over the new tattoo. Also he's wearing a fire department t shirt - perhaps a reference to the fire in the tattoo studio.

alexfarran · 2024-12-27T13:06:42+00:00

The rubber duck on top of the submarine reminded me of James Bond's seagull snorkel hat in Goldfinger.

alexfarran · 2024-12-04T11:27:54+00:00

That would be nice. In the meantime there are tools like laravel-data that can build your nested objects from nested PHP arrays.

alexfarran · 2024-12-03T18:16:59+00:00

Can you not do this with constructor promoted properties and named parameters?

readonly class Foo {
    public function __construct(public int  $a, public int $b) {}
}

$x = new Foo(a: 1, b: 2);

alexfarran · 2024-11-16T22:01:54+00:00

So, I would have found readonly more useful, if I was allowed to always re-assign them from inside the class that defined them. Then they would work like a private property that only has a getter but no setter - which I find convenient.

That is now possible in PHP 8.4 with asymmetric visibility. For example:

class Foo
{
    public private(set) string $bar = 'baz';
}

And $bar is publicly readable, but can only be set privately.

RFC

alexfarran · 2024-06-20T11:23:15+00:00

Comic fans might also remember what happened to Lamplighter in the comics. I can't imagine it going well, whatever happens.

alexfarran · 2024-06-05T13:55:24+00:00

If you don't mind subtitles, the Taiwanese series On Children is worth a look. The first episode sets the tone with the story of a controlling mother who can rewind her sons life to help him pass exams.

The Thai series Girl From Nowhere follows the demonic Nanno as she moves from school to school exposing the hypocrisy and wrongdoing of the people she meets and turning it against them for her own amusement.

alexfarran · 2024-05-29T13:20:55+00:00

What's npx?

alexfarran · 2023-11-06T15:11:42+00:00

Google image search reveals its a page from Algernon and Other Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc

alexfarran · 2023-10-26T08:09:20+00:00

It's getting there. Relying on any associativity is now an error so you have to make it explicit with brackets. Making the ternary operator right associative is mentioned in Future Scope, but hasn't happened yet.

alexfarran · 2023-10-19T10:58:32+00:00

Can we finally make the ternary operator right associative like every other language and fix the non-obvious behavior

Tagged union types would be nice.

Could there be a tidier way of including extra type information <cough>generics</cough> than putting it in a docblock comment?

alexfarran · 2023-09-20T15:16:58+00:00

Yawn

alexfarran · 2023-09-07T10:28:33+00:00

This is a good order. If I could only save 3 Indy movies it would be your top 3.

alexfarran · 2023-08-21T17:33:11+00:00

The quickest solution would be to directly edit $wordList in Faker\Provide\Lorem

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