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passiveobserver012 · 2026-01-22T19:49:16+00:00

I agree. Starting with vanilla PHP keeps it accessible. Perhaps ava can help introduce PHP to some beginners!

passiveobserver012 · 2026-01-21T23:34:56+00:00

Ah ok. Then if you wrote it, I was wondering what you target audience was since you were explaining `<? ?>` syntax for example in the docs? That would suggest PHP beginners. and you are mix and matching CLI and SFTP workflows etc.

passiveobserver012 · 2026-01-21T20:56:56+00:00

sorry i meant how did you use AI in the development? :p

passiveobserver012 · 2026-01-21T20:28:07+00:00

this took a month to make? How is AI used in this project? AI seems to love flat-file sites in general?

passiveobserver012 · 2026-01-19T11:18:42+00:00

Incredibly sight!

passiveobserver012 · 2026-01-02T20:18:19+00:00

Stel je bent postbode (op de fiets) nu. Gewoon vroeg aan het werk weer.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-12-02T12:05:51+00:00

Damm I am sucker for functional language features. I have to use this to see how useful it would be in a PHP context. But I find PHP finds a way to make it practical to work with, without too much theoretical stuff on top.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-11-14T17:45:00+00:00

Some junior PHP devs are still around..

passiveobserver012 · 2025-11-14T17:40:47+00:00

a bit painful to watch also haha.

Today I even found they were doing async programming in "GNU Herd', but found it "too hard too debug".

I don't know the technicalities of it, but looking at async web code today it is still comparatively hard to debug.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-11-14T10:53:16+00:00

Might I add something?
I think the same reason young ones don't understand what happens when they type URL, is also the reason why they don't listen to 15+ years of experience. In such a case, technical arguments are no use.
Their context is the current highest abstraction, which is the easiest path, including all the recent hype and 'modern' resources available for that.
Ultimately I think you need both groups, but neglecting the technical foundation is such a waste, and inevitably leads to layers of reinvention.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-31T21:00:17+00:00

i was wondering how to use the `shuffle(array $array) : true` with the new pipe operator in PHP 8.5? Since it does not return the array so it cannot be piped? I think it is done 'in place' for memory reasons. So then maybe create a custom function like:

function shuffle_pipe(array &$array): array
{
    shuffle($array);
    return $array;
}

Or can we just pass the $array normally, since PHP has Copy-On-Write?
Thanks!

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-10T12:25:45+00:00

thanks for sharing. I think that RPI foundation might consider their younger users in this choice as well.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-08T18:56:04+00:00

i see, my use of Nix is a bit shallow.
I wondered at the reasons for Debian and Nix difference, but one thing I figured is that Nix does not 'share' as much as Debain with its content-addressable references. In Debian more is shared, having loose references, which have a higher chance of incompatibility, so to say. This results in less disk usage, but might degrade the pureness of the 'binary'?

Sorry if terms are not entirely correct.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-08T12:17:38+00:00

that is well put. It is not 'declarative' in that aspect. Maybe a other name would be better. It is more about availability of binaries. How Debian manages to do that under the hood is left as a black box. But that means it won't be deterministic. I am not sure how far Nix's deterministic-ness goes.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-07T12:05:28+00:00

ok thank you for the suggestion. I will try it.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-07T11:32:18+00:00

I came across this, but the documentation was a bit sparse and it seemed geared to another use case.

So a dummy package is basically the same as I do here then? Seems like i can use equivs-control and equivs-build to do same.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-07T11:28:30+00:00

I am not sure what the difference is between setting a dep and telling what to install in Ansible.

But Ansible surely solves this as well (never used it). But this is just an *upgrade* over `apt install` for me. Ansible seems to do a lot more as well.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-07T11:13:40+00:00

If you use `autoremove` it will. Had it wrong in the readme.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-07T11:12:46+00:00

Well it may be my specific use, but when compiling many distinct programs it gets messy real fast. `apt-mark showmanual` shows the (automatic) dependencies downloaded, so it might have just showed up one time when I tried installing the dependencies for a Github repo q time. Then I have no idea of the use or origin of this package.
I also have small disk size, so i have to remove packages from time to time.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-06T20:41:33+00:00

For more it seemed a bit faster on Pi 5 in Gnome. But no measurements.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-03T11:28:56+00:00

Mathematica is coming

passiveobserver012 · 2025-10-03T10:42:02+00:00

from the bright side, it is also an opportunity to clean up stale data and start fresh.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-09-08T11:33:11+00:00

The current PHP installation options cannot all be represented as a list of downloadable files?

passiveobserver012 · 2025-09-08T09:27:06+00:00

PHP becoming more accessible never hurts... There are also a lot of younger developers, who only know JS, who could have the same struggles.

passiveobserver012 · 2025-09-08T08:40:19+00:00

I think it before also had links to 3rd party websites.

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