Today’s brainworm: a parody of “Put Down the Ducky” called “Tighten the Graphics.”

Sometimes I get so deep into composition and particular abstraction layers that I forget that basic object-oriented programming exists. And what I thought was going to be a nightmare to code and even more to maintain actually wasn’t that complicated. (I welcome you to tell me why it’s actually bad.)

I didn’t add a way to prefix Smolblog’s DB tables because I didn’t need it, and I need to not build what I don’t need.

Today, the auto-migration wiped out my test WordPress’ tables.

I am now building a way to prefix Smolblog’s DB tables.

John Gruber on the full DeepSeek AI model running locally:

Apple has tremendous technical advantages to offer in AI. But they’re marketing Genmojis of hot dogs carrying briefcases.

I might argue that there’s very little else to market.

I’m afraid—if I log out—I won’t be able to find my LinkedIn account!

Hey #php land, what’s going to be the easiest way to build an admin interface? I’ve got all my data persistence and retrieval functions written; just need to build the UI. (Would love if there was some easy way to build the forms in WordPress' backend.)

I’m thinking of making a custom language definition for highlight.js so I can specially-format parts of a story (chat window, AI dialogue, etc.) without leaving Markdown.

Am I overcomplicating this?

I want to like Scrivener so much more than I do. I want to use it, really dive into it, but writing in it feels like using a word processor; anything too far from CSS isn’t intuitive for me anymore. And the HTML it generates is… generated HTML.

So… anyone organizing a novel with Markdown?

Trying something: every time I see a news story about government incompetence in the name of efficiency, I forward it to my congressman and senators.

I love how Fox had arguably the perfect score bug in 2020 and has spent every Super Bowl they broadcast making it worse.

Ok, where are y’all hosting your email? iCloud and Mailgun keep silently breaking on each other, and I’m not sure my forwarding is working either. Would love to support multiple custom domains.

After seeing from @dame and @manton what a premium .blog domain costs, I feel really lucky they didn’t consider “smol” a desirable word.

Back again with another #php question: I’ve put classes that exist and don’t exist through this loop, but I’m still only testing 3/4 code branches. Any ideas?

Happy New Year! May you find what you’re looking for, or at least get closer. 😄

Just read a detailed post about GitHub Copilot by David Chisnall. It reminds me of when I almost failed a college math class because I thought I was done with homework. When I got to the tests, it was my first time really doing the problems and I struggled. The doing itself was and is important.

Anyone got experience with CSS widows and orphans? I’m trying to have a 3-line paragraph go entirely to one page, but a 4-line split evenly. Right now a 4-line paragraph will put the first three on the first page (orphans: 3) and the last line on the next (violating widows: 2). Help?

Thought I had found a clever way to auto-generate endpoints… except it depended on each one having a different static property which doesn’t work in PHP. TIL.

This is your annual reminder not to sleep on the Hallmark movie Round and Round. It has everything: nerd references, time loops, and Vic Michaelis. I’m not even being ironic; we literally sought out this movie to rewatch it.

Wow, Google, “updating” is carrying a lot of weight here. I don’t remember you “updating” the price after we lost MLB network or our regional sports network.

Well, I was all ready to replace my getId() function in the interface with PHP 8.4’s new support for properties… except all my value objects are readonly. It’s fine if there’s an $id property, but if the ID is derived and I want to use a virtual property declaration, I get this instead:

Property hooks are incompatible with readonly properties.

sad_trombone.wav

What are y’all’s thoughts on changing the pronouns in a cover? For example:

We say love is a temple
Love, the higher law
But we ask them to enter
And then we make them crawl
And I can’t keep holding on
To what you’ve got
When all you’ve got is hurt…

I’m still on the lookout for my next job. If you know of a good team looking for a creative engineer, hit me up! Full details on my CV, but I’m especially good with PHP/WordPress and Svelte with Typescript.

Today is allegedly a free preview of NFL Sunday Ticket… except it’s only in the browser on my computer. So not only did they pick a week I don’t actually want to watch an out-of-market game, I can’t experience it on my TV.

How’s this selling me on a $60/month add-on?

Automakers of America, here’s what I want in an electric:

• 200+ mile range
• NACS charging
• Fits in unconventional parking spots like an actual small car and not the compact SUVs that every electric seems to be these days!

There’s some graffiti that was spotted in Clackmas, Oregon that I keep coming back to…

If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.

I’m still not giving up.