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  "Brazil's left-wing President Lula wins fourth term in surprise victory over Flávio Bolsonaro" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cmgelnrd4r3jt?page=4

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  I'm glad I'm not the only one who "cries in npm" regularly.

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  Partner tried to buy concert tickets on mobile. After endless pain points: "fuck it, this is a PC operation."

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  Cats can definitely count to 3. One of my cats was staring at me instead of going to her plate because I threw 2 kibbles instead of the usual 3 before setting down the plate. I threw the third, and then she could resume her routine.

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  Although Factorio is an awesome game (573 hours), it looks like I played Dyson Sphere Program even more (696 hours).

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  Really sad to see people I respected take a big dump on PHP today. It was unnecessary. This is open source. Things run on too few donations and mostly unpaid work. These people work hard. They deal with entitled users in bug trackers. They sift through slop reports and slop contributions. They have to defend their infra from thieves who can afford to lose more money in an hour than they will not make in a lifetime. They have to drop everything when their unpaid project has an emergency.

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  For my Witcher fans.

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  Closed my Stripe account. If I ever need something like that, I'll go for Canadian.

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  Relatable as fuck. https://youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8?si=uqlTgnVSPTt2jepL

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  Ah yes, a 10-step form with dozens of fields per page, with entire page resetting after you validate by pressing the next button. So if you don't know the validation rules upfront, have fun retyping everything a few times. I should have known when I saw a marquee tag on the home page.

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  Whoever is massively spamming the phpc.tv registration and trying to game our anti-spam measures: I hope you step barefoot on a d4 every 5 minutes for the rest of your life.

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  I already knew I was voting for them, but didn't expect to be *this* aligned with their policies. Anyway, try for yourself: https://votecompass.cbc.ca

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  How the US almost started a war with China. "AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster" https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

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  They should have exited russia back when everyone was telling them. That's what being apolitical gets you. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nestle-auchan-putin-db90782aa5510cef0eeba61ef8969ab5

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  Wow PHPStorm got so bad that at work, renaming any variable simply deletes every other occurrence without showing the rename popup. Good job with all that goddamn slop. I don't even have the mental energy to file a bug report. I really hope that JetBrains bankrupts when the bubble bursts or even before. People need to connect actions to consequences at some point. We need plenty of examples so others might learn.

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  If I have to review another line of unverified slop code based on hallucinated requirements, I might just go insane.

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  If you ask most LLMs to give you a random number between 1 and 30, it will give you 17, then 23. That is until they patch for this specific question. 1.5 trillion dollars well spent. https://isaiprofitable.com/

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  I can't keep up with having to move/delete services because of all the slop and neo-nazi shit. Can't y'all slow down just a little bit?!

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  One of our past volunteers in Ukraine is battling cancer, while simultaneously raising, on her own, a kid who has diabetes. Please help with medication expenses: https://gofund.me/9ac16a3bd

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  Donated to "Support the mental health of the Kyiv Independent's team" https://kyivindependent.com/crowdfunding/support-the-mental-health-of-the-kyiv-independents-team/

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  "CAPTCHA hell" https://youtu.be/mP1Uf-ujHNs?si=6_3gVt7n8A8Z8G9c

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  I bet someone out there is feeding all our plaintext passwords to a next word picker.

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  "A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation by James Titcumb" https://phpc.tv/w/oEVucF3CfcL2Qo23yNytU1

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  I'm now self-hosting Grafana + Prometheus for my monitoring needs. That saves so much money. They're quite overpriced at 19 USD per month for smaller customers. It's almost as much as I pay to store and stream terabytes of video. I've been really optimizing the cost of operating phpc.tv

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  Just shaved over 16 minutes off a pipeline by baking installs and docker pulls into the base image of the test runner, so it doesn't have to do it in the pipeline. That's 16 minutes where it wasn't even running any tests. Just overhead.

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  My son joined us for dinner tonight. We live in different cities so we don't get to do it as often as we'd like.

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  Oldest kid getting a tour of the young one's incredible Minecraft creations: "When she learns about redstone, we'll lose her".

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  I wanted to get a SkillShare subscription for a month so my kid could learn some stuff. Apparently they only offer annual subscriptions now, and the price almost made me fall out of my chair. How are they still in business?! Who in their right mind pay this much in this economy?

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  "You think you want to play classic WoW but you don't." 250K people apparently disagree. It's almost like players know what they want.

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  This time, I submitted phpc.tv expenses in my home currency (CAD). I hope it will be accepted. Last time, I noticed that OpenCollective was messing up the exchange rate so badly that I got 27% less than the expenses I incurred. This translates to ~$74 per month, or $888 per year out of my own pocket, *despite* being supported by the community. That made no sense to me.