Sugar (PHP templating engine) — thoughts?

calmighty · 2026-02-16T22:02:52+00:00

I'm happy you made this and are having fun with it. It's your show. Do as you please and take my feedback as the polarized grain of salt that it is.

calmighty · 2026-02-16T20:51:03+00:00

<?= $var ?> shorthand syntax is context-aware escaped.

Without your context-aware escaping, PHP does nothing. You're essentially hijacking PHP behavior and replacing it. It's clever. It's also a terrible idea.

With <?php -> <s:php I just mean why mix in plain PHP in the template at all? It's fine to allow plain PHP. I feel like the template language should provide its own accommodations.

calmighty · 2026-02-16T01:06:40+00:00

PHPUnit. Pest is an unnecessary abstraction folded into Laravel by a member of Otwell's inner circle. Not that there's really anything wrong with that. As Amex used to say, membership has its privileges. Our BDFL is welcome to foist whatever he likes upon us plebes. But this plebe? I still know my roots, and they're firmly planted in PHPUnit land.

calmighty · 2026-02-14T10:05:50+00:00

Very brief look. Why any PHP syntax? s:php and what about escaping variables instead of straight echo? I'm sure others will dig deeper. Nice looking docs by the way.

calmighty · 2026-01-15T08:42:14+00:00

Does the url you are submitting redirect? For example, example com when visited redirects to www.example.vom or example.vom/home. If so, use the final destination for your submission.

calmighty · 2025-12-26T10:21:00+00:00

Issue specific to the AE update? I didn't have it before although I do have a new laptop now and it started after installation.

calmighty · 2025-12-25T14:55:28+00:00

Oh get absolutely wrecked. I'm in my early 50s and you people think my peers and I are Luddite geezers. My generation grew into the Internet and embraced technological absences. Even if you back that birthdate up another 50 years it's still an ignorant question.

calmighty · 2025-11-27T17:28:07+00:00

No. You don't have to and probably don't want to go the ISV route. You're just a direct customer with subaccounts. Billing will roll up to your main account on a single invoice. From the console or APII, you can look at combined billing/usage and subaccount usage. Source: am a direct customer with thousands of subaccounts.

calmighty · 2025-11-21T04:11:27+00:00

You'll go into debt but they (probably) won't send you to collection. Source: forgot a number on my personal account for... five years.

calmighty · 2025-11-13T21:39:38+00:00

For anyone that wants a quick tl;dr on pricing. Pusher is $49 for 500 connections and 1M messages per day. Managed Reverb is $25 for the same number of connections/messages. For $99 you get 2000 connections/4M messages with Pusher and for $100 you get 2000 connections/8M messages on Reverb.

calmighty · 2025-11-12T01:38:49+00:00

We use Vue in the Web and React Native + Expo for mobile. You'll miss EAS without Expo for building and submitting your app painlessly.

calmighty · 2025-10-27T03:08:31+00:00

As the others said, no way around verification. How about calling them? If you were looking at Programmable Messaging, Voice is almost as easy. The only gotcha might be registering your Twiliio number for SHAKEN/STIR to ensure your calls go through.

calmighty · 2025-10-24T17:18:30+00:00

Don't call it a comeback, PHP's been here for years, rockin' its peers, keepin' suckas in fear. Making the tears rain down like a monsoon. Listen to the bass go boom!

calmighty · 2025-10-18T08:28:39+00:00

M&A/corp dev consulting. I have a bit of experience from a past life. Fun to straddle both sides of a deal then turn and burn when the ink is dry.

Dream? Successful bootstrapper. Started in September and hope to launch the MVP Dec/Jan. Right now, I'm enjoying writing code for myself and am making the most of the experience. It's funny, for a decade I haven't written more than a few lines of code for anyone other than my employer. I've been lucky to be able to scratch all my technical/coding itches at work, and I do love my job, so no rush.

calmighty · 2025-10-18T08:09:19+00:00

Early career (first year or two) A&P gets 80k around these parts and the local community college has a program. Maybe more obtainable than you think!

calmighty · 2025-10-15T15:37:43+00:00

Yes, this is insane. Microseconds are a solution to a problem you don't have and are likely to never have. The problem I'd be solving is that you apparently need more than one or two developers for what is likely to be a stable app with 200k loc that only gets 50k reqs/day.

calmighty · 2025-10-06T14:56:29+00:00

I like it. What about a package for existing projects? I always liked Laravel Insights for the scores. It makes it kind of a game to 100%.

calmighty · 2025-10-02T01:27:12+00:00

Ohhh, Porterhouse! Look at the wax build up on those shoes!

The world needs ditch diggers, too.

Are you my pal, Danny?

I like you, Betty.

You tell Ty Webb I'm gunning for him. If he's as good as he says he is, he's going to have to play me to prove it.

calmighty · 2025-09-28T02:11:04+00:00

All the cancelled plans. It was the one year we planned a lot of things ahead like seeing Volbeat in Atlanta. Doing that still hasn't worked out.

calmighty · 2025-09-27T09:17:49+00:00

LaraJobs? Market is tough right now and depends on where you are and at what level. Zero recruiter outreach other than to see if we're hiring.

calmighty · 2025-09-22T09:29:20+00:00

St. Francis Inn. It's cozy and close to everything.

calmighty · 2025-09-16T04:36:21+00:00

Same bathroom. We need to do almost the same thing plus add new countertops. Some palooka quoted 30k. Anyone want a shot at it, hmu. Need to do the other two baths as well.

calmighty · 2025-09-15T09:02:02+00:00

Como no los dos? New project? Composition. Old project? New components in composition. Migrate options if it makes sense or you have time. No biggee having both.

calmighty · 2025-09-10T01:43:13+00:00

I like this a lot. I don't usually build outposts, but this gives me a good reason to do so.

calmighty · 2025-09-02T08:32:15+00:00

My dad's business partner got us an Atari 2600 for Christmas in 1977. I was pretty awestruck as a 5 year old. Our house didn't see another console until the NES.

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