![\"Lineup](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Fmedia_attachments%2Ffiles%2F116%2F524%2F179%2F932%2F587%2F091%2Foriginal%2Fefae9e0ef1f55715.jpg\")
@outofcontrol @logan
Looks like it's https://llbbl.blog/feed.xml
This is what happens after you re-listen to 2112 multiple times over a few days.
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Today, it would be about Rush, objectivism, and the \"fork in the road\" that nerdy, teenage, white boys hit when they come of age.
I came to the conclusion, \"you know, Rand is right. If everyone thought and behaved exactly as she did, things might be fine. However, I live in the real world\". Many people don't get to that point.
","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116738131632824726","date_published":"2026-06-12T16:42:06+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-12 16:42","date_timestamp":1781282526,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91938944","content_html":"@outofcontrol got nosebleeds for $80 plus fees, and there were a lot of non-resell seats left. Had first looked at the Ft Worth shows in 2 weeks and THOSE were all resell, and minimum $300/seat.
And I guess officially sanctioned by Ticketmaster. 🤷
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Wife asked if I wanted to take our teenager, and I laughed and said \"No, I want to actually enjoy myself\".
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If that's your thing, cool. But that seems to be all there is these days.
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Under 6, I'd still think I might be ok. Once it hits 10, no.
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","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116655928798067131","date_published":"2026-05-29T04:16:50+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 04:16","date_timestamp":1780028210,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90917201","content_html":"Vibe coding is fine for side projects, but not for years-old legacy business code where even 1M token context won't account for all the weird decisions that startup engineers deal with.
It WILL hallucinate, and fall on a more experienced engineer to clean up.
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In all that time, I never did a post-conference game night. Maybe before I retire I'll actually go to one.
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","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116609084285341283","date_published":"2026-05-20T21:43:39+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-20 21:43","date_timestamp":1779313419,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90266403","content_html":"Joined \"GameDev.tv Game Jam 2026\" #gdtvjam ... and I've got an ok idea I think I could actually get done in a week. Going to try something in 3D.
I learned about the GridMap node (in a GameDev video actually) and want to incorporate that. Maybe even a Path node?!?
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Hero: We've got a security vulnerability... I need to revoke the GitHub tokens.
Partner: Maybe we should wait for SecOps. They'll be here in like 2 minutes.
Hero: Don't you see?!? There's no time!!!
* Revokes tokens. `rm -rf .` gets run. *
Manager: You did your best Hero. You can't blame yourself. You're the best dev we got.
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","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116567746799838155","date_published":"2026-05-13T14:30:59+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-13 14:30","date_timestamp":1778682659,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89824811","content_html":"I enjoy some good PHP discourse that's not just \"PHP is dead! No it's not!\".
I've been doing PHP stuff over 20 years, and hope it's able to attract new people to it. I remember installing WAMP, following a Webmonkey tutorial, and getting a dynamic site working fairly quickly... And it was exciting. While working during the day with a compiled language, PHP provided that quick fix I enjoyed in the off hours.
My Houston Music Archive project is done in pure PHP, and it's still enjoyable.
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I think this is pretty good, and probably apt for the past 20 years. \"Leave politics at home and be where the people are\" is the only disagreement I have, because choosing to engage on a site that profits a literal racist IS a political choice.
Also, weird to see so much Laravel hate. I'm confident in the opinion that Laravel Herd is one of the greatest things I've encountered in my PHP career... and at least half of personal project use it WITHOUT Laravel.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116533919632703098","date_published":"2026-05-07T15:08:18+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-07 15:08","date_timestamp":1778166498,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89671396","content_html":"I've been talking about this with people at several conferences for a couple months now. I wanted to properly write down my thoughts: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-biggest-problem
\n\n
The ACL 2026 line up looks good. Glad to see Soda Pop Jetpacks were able to reunite.
Happy \"Take Five day\" for all who celebrate.
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","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116472665463999124","date_published":"2026-04-26T19:30:33+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-26 19:30","date_timestamp":1777231833,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87942959","content_html":"I know generative AI is evil. But...
Taking crappy songs I wrote/recorded with friends while in high school, and making \"marching band\" versions is really funny.
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Weir's Project Hail Mary is released to theaters the same time a ship bearing the name of ANOTHER of his books is sent to space? Coincidence?!?!?
","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116358568891235309","date_published":"2026-04-06T15:54:18+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-06 15:54","date_timestamp":1775490858,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87600925","content_html":"Vibe coding is bad and not maintainable. Think most professional devs agree with that.
However, a local Ollama model using offline docs for RAG is pretty amazing, especially with 3rd party APIs. I used to use this Mac app called Dash, that supposedly allows MCP access... But I prefer flat files. It's slower than commercial products, but it's all on my computer and not relying on model's internal \"knowledge\".
","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116347715856378357","date_published":"2026-04-04T17:54:14+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-04 17:54","date_timestamp":1775325254,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87323684","content_html":"13 years ago, I wrote a book for #laravel v4. In the past quarter, 2 people bought physical copies and 4 bought the e-book.
Thanks for the $5 in royalties, but damn...
","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116324180591246154","date_published":"2026-03-31T14:08:54+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-31 14:08","date_timestamp":1774966134,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86613254","content_html":"RE: https://phpc.social/@Crell/116262239935723893
We bought a used Hyundai Kona EV, after having a Leaf EV for many years. Easily goes 200 miles on a charge, and with planning, much further if you find 1 hr fast chargers on your route. No subscriptions, and I think our monthly electric bill has MAYBE gone up $10ish on average.
Still have a gas minivan, but rarely gets used these days. The only downside is the $200 a year we have to pay Texas, to offset gas tax.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry/116262304286731059","date_published":"2026-03-20T15:52:57+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-20 15:52","date_timestamp":1774021977,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86206317","content_html":"You know, the best way to insulate yourself from the wild oil price swings that #Trump is causing as part of his moronically stupid war with Iran is to go all-in on electric. Car, appliances, solar.
\nIt won't solve everything, but it will reduce your direct impact. And you help the planet, and undermine the petro-dictators. Wins all around!
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little thing I was curious about: https://matula.github.io/furry.html
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I'm not really sure what ffmpeg the Qwen model has by default. But might be cool to custom train one and get the model size as lean as possible.
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I hacked this together months ago because I found myself converting a bunch of old audio files, and I was continually googling #ffmpeg flags. I thought it would be cool to use natural language for transcoding, but wanted it to keep it local, and workable offline.
So I grabbed the smallest, usable model and hacked together some Python and prompts... And it just kind of worked.
I thought I'd clean it up and share.
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@bobmagicii I could just be lucky, and looking at logs I don't see any \"Claude\" ua. I do see \"amazonbot\" and \"GPTBot\" among others. If Anthropic is hitting my site, they're not slamming it at least.
Looking at search referrers, it's interesting I don't see Google. Just DDG and Bing. Not sure if that's just because of the type of people who might search for obscure Houston bands, or Gemini screwing up search.
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My biggest issue was with Tencent Chinese servers, with multiple IPs but they all had the same ASN. This way I can block ALL of them with a single value instead of hundreds/thousands of different IPs.
For AI bots that have \"good\" user agents, I have a separate system that parses the ua and blocks based on that. Most big AI companies are good about it.
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I learned about Team Cymru, and their IP services. Pretty cool, and \"free\". Using PHP's dns_get_record, I'm able to make a super quick query for an ASN record, and block the ones I don't want.
I'm no security expert, but this seems to be working well.
This whole project is just pleasant to work on... no frameworks or database or external dependencies. Just pure PHP, with a smattering of CSS and JS.
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And then right after that, all the \"exploit\" pings.
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This is why we can't have nice things.
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No frameworks or build processes, and all json-powered. I've even got a \"functions.php\" file. Last I checked, the total download size was 81kb.
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Today, the literal top of the government is doing crypto pump and dumps, and the billionaire-iest and capitalist-iest people are the main pushers. Wtf happened?
Also, I remember when Doge was announced as a parody... And a playground for crypto stuff. Another long gone wallet, and I shudder to think what it is worth today.
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#php #gameboy
Works pretty well on mobile Chrome as well. I checked the \"use touch as mouse events\" box in Godot, but didn't expect it to be so seamless.
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And yes, I typed out all the functions and they do something.
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My thought was to act like a \"concierge\" between multiple services, but that breaks TOS. I guess I could just bootstrap it, and see how far i could get?
I'm thinking about Zappos, who basically just got shoes from FootLocker and sold them on the web when starting.
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I honestly can't imagine, even with as good as it is, having AI write EVERYTHING without meticulous oversight (which defeats the idea that it's faster). Even things like Tailwind classes would mess up, and if I didn't know what I was doing, I'd waste a LOT of time fixing it.
","url":"https://phpc.social/users/terry/statuses/115376477487682089","date_published":"2025-10-15T05:15:32+00:00","author":{"name":"terry matula","url":"https://phpc.social/@terry","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.phpc.social%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F287%2F399%2F216%2F210%2F252%2Foriginal%2F67cd63ecc1b4934b.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"terry@phpc.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-15 05:15","date_timestamp":1760505332,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"19384806","content_html":"@ian I need to check my notifications here more often. :)
Thank you for the offer!
When validating emails 'filter_var' is by far the slowest. Next is 'preg_match'.
I also did a hacky '$e= explode(\"@\")', make sure 'count($e) > 1' and 'str_contains($e[1], \".\")'... and that was twice as fast as filter_var
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