Yesterday we had PHP Thames Valley in Reading. Thanks to @daveliddament.bsky.social
and @mintopia.net for bringing us not one, but two magnificent talks!
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I've been using Claude, GPT and Gemini for tasks like content, image and coding, but I don't get the results that others are crazy about. They're dumb in most cases. You can't say it's only a context issue. It's useful for grammar checks and summarising large data. What am I missing, premium models?
I got my first subscriber for a project launched with a single subscription form on 3 July. It's a really slow start, but exciting! Now I'll refine the landing page to clarify the project's purpose and share it with you once complete.
Yesterday, when I was driving home after dark, there was a car whose driver (instead of flashing their high beams at me) thanked me for giving them priority by quickly turning their lights off and on again.
I was surprised that I had never thought about this before.
I woke up at 7:30 today, made a coffee and sat down at the computer for some nice early coding. But my son sad no, feed me and wait for further instructions.
It was another great evening with another fantastic talk!
Join us at the next PHP South West on 8th October 2025 when Graham Campbell will be talking about database optimisation.
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Come and learn about @filamentphp.com at PHP South West this evening in Bristol, directly from its co-creator @danharrin.com. I'll be there!
Welcome to modern society built on AI!
I've started writing weekly blog posts to collect the things that infused me or I was working on, but mainly for accountability and a pinch of self-marketing. It will be delayed, so it contains the things I did the previous week.
The first post is arriving this Sunday.
Could move them into annual playlists based on the liked date, then unlink them to start January fresh. Although I believe the algorithm is highly dependent on your likes.
I've always been puzzled how fixed energy prices are not classified as a scam.
This is the same as forgetting: remote work doesn’t mean exclusively working from home. Until you stay productive, you can work from your favourite coffee shop, pub, or seashore.
Just like you're not forced to work only for UK companies, there's a whole world out there looking for remote workforce.
I'm coding with Cursor for a week now and I must tell you how amazingly WON'T replace any developers in the next few years.
Does it make me more efficient? Hell ya! Does it write better code than me? Of course not.
But you should all use AI for coding, it's the best feature since code completion.
Amazing job, congratulations to everyone who was involved. I hope we see you next year! 👏🐘
Welcome everyone from PHPverse 2025! Such a fun day with some great talks. Are you all pumped to make PHP great again?
Farewell Brian Wilson.
Working from home almost exclusively for five years, I could get used to this working environment at lunch breaks, that's for sure.
It took six hours to find the root cause, then another six to deploy it. This is why you will always need human developers 😏 Aside from the joke, I can't wait to read the post-mortem.
That really takes some nerve!
Can I guess: is it scheduled after six days, isn't it?!
It could only be more accurate if two guys on a moped were running away with your phone 😀
There is no safe and valid business reason for AI video generation with sound other than for misinformation. Similar to when they cloned Dolly the Sheep and the world decided that human cloning wasn't cool. Folks need to decide this isn't cool.
I clearly don't understand how the gov try to sell this as a win. People don't want to come to the UK or rather, leave the country permanently, and that should be worrying. Meanwhile "asylum and other reasons for entry broadly stable".
It's hard not to share your journey when you have doubts, but also stay motivated every day. Learn to trust yourself first, then you can seek feedback.
I'm finally working on a side project which requires to build a bunch of forms. I was genuinely eyeing with Livewire Flux Pro for a while, but building my own components from scratch in Blade is unexpectedly fun.
Absolutely default from the day the feature exists.
This is something I couldn't keep up with. I stuck on frontend choices as soon as I started the project. I also realised I was trying to address multiple things in my life at the same time, so I've decided to focus on myself in the next 6 months first. Then, I'll continue my SaaS dreams.
Follow up: YouTube Premium stays for now. It’s a completely different experience from the "free" access, and I don't really care if I'm still paying money for Google to use my data. JetBrains AI is also better than Copilot, and they've just shipped a huge update, so I might pay in for a year.
To me, it's like the feeling when to add line breaks to method attributes and array items. I think 2-3 attributes together are still fine, but if there are more exploding to lines might be better for the eyes (unless it's 30 additional lines, which means you have too many attributes).
You can't store and serve hundreds of hours of content for eternity that only a few people watch for $19, especially when you're making new content every day. I don’t agree with the decision, but we have to understand streaming was an utopian dream all along. Long live the physical media.
