Web developer. Also into photography, nature, philosophy, politics, climate, psychology.
When I say “optional”, I mean you can just create a filename.php and start putting lines of code into it, and it’ll work fine. But, these days OOP is favored by most and pretty much everyone is using it. So if you are working on code that other people have written, classes are everywhere.
A lot of Wordpress code is non-OOP, though.
No, OOP is optional in PHP.
PHP is huge and more relevant than you realise. There are many many PHP developers.
IMO one of the things holding the fediverse back is that not much of it is written in Python or PHP. Neither are “good” languages but there is a massive pool of developers and they’re easy to get up and running.
Seems like ‘top’ is based on the number of boosts instead of upvotes.
Go to https://kbin.social/settings/general and choose the Subscribed home page.
Often, the option to downvote is the only thing stopping me from getting sucked into some stupid argument with an idiot. It is a massive productivity booster. Downvote and move on.
I wish kbin would hide posts with lots of downvotes…
I expect it will be - it seems to almost work already. For example, take this peertube channel - https://tube.arthack.nz/c/intertwingled/videos?s=1.
I tried a few different things in the kbin search and @intertwingled@tube.arthack.nz got a result that I could subscribe to. If that channel posts another video, it might show up in kbin. Will it be a microblog? A thread? A magazine? Who knows! kbin seems very confused about all of this.
When things are working properly, it does.
You don’t need to read much history to find plenty of bad things done by non-commercial entities, e.g. governments. Or churches.
It’s not commerce that is the problem, it is oppression. Use of my code for oppressive purposes is the thing I want to avoid.
I don’t miss the 60Hz flicker, one little bit.
Wanna see something that makes even Perl look elegant and readable? Check out any sed script. Here’s tetris, in sed: https://github.com/uuner/sedtris/blob/master/sedtris.sed
I wonder if Gab was invited. It would be hilarious if the only instances willing to federate with Meta were Nazis.
This seems ideal for something like ActivityPub where data is flowing between different people and places all the time. Looks like the tooling isn’t there yet, though.
Another thing to bear in mind is that lemmy.world and lemmy.ml are totally overloaded at present. While their UI might function Ok, behind the scenes there are queues of content to be sent out to other servers that get pretty choked up.
Content from before you subscribe is not sent, only from that point onwards (unless someone else on the same server already subscribed to it).
Lemmy has a bug where when you search it won’t show any results at first, and then 10 seconds later it’ll show your magazine. Are you waiting 10+ seconds?
Yup. There needs to be some de-duplication code, somehow.
It doesn’t work for me, on Firefox or Chrome. Chrome reports ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR