Websites for developer facing services all look the same today. Grid, Isometric perspective.

Cold outreach The following AI cold contact mails have been collected over a few weeks, slightly edited (removed names, line breaks, em-dashes and typographic quotes).

"Noticed you sell to web developers to offer them PHP hosting as a Service." Those annoying AI outreach mails. Here is a collection: blog.fortrabbit.com/cold-outreach

Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity.

My mom published an academic book in 1978 called "Die Natur der Stadt" (The Nature of the City). I've now finished the digital version to preserve her legacy.

github.com/frank-laemme...

Tech job search right now is ... different. In the past, I have successfully interviewed with Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, and Ebay. But for the past month, I have hardly even been able to get past a tech screen. Wow.

True. Thanks. Must be. I usually confuse Cloudflare with Stripe for some reason. Quick posting.

Ah. Q4 earnings call hype. But, will Cloudflare ever go public?

I might need to adjust "Überich" to "Über-Ich" for consistency, especially since it relates to psychoanalysis. The context supports this correction.

Great. But I fear CSS is becoming a bit complicated these days. Needs backward compatibility. Inside, outside. Oh.

Please fix Liquid Glass. It's broken.

Nice. One of those things you never thought about, but then AHA. I remain skeptic about the #Chromopoly.

Screenshot from Deutsche Bank

Bravo. The 186 MB Deutsche Bank app displays ambiguous ITANs (time based one time passwords).

The annual #craftcms community survey, CraftQuest.io/ns 2026, is out and ready for you! Please take 5 minutes to share how you work. We'll share the aggregated and raw data publicly after the closing date (Feb 2nd).

➡️ surveys.craftquest.io/2026

From PHP to Python - A Straight-to-the-Point Guide The fastest way to learn Python as a PHP developer. You're almost a Python dev. You just don't know it yet.

Hello (dev) World! 👋

I’m a PHP 🐘 developer who wanted to learn Python 🐍 without starting from zero.

That course didn’t exist… so I built it.

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#PHP #Python

And remember kids, the 'S' in 'Agentic AI' stands for security.

Pro Palestine protesters

Angles, followed by police, walking down the street.

I talked about bootstrapping fortrabbit at the SaaS Unbound podcast with Anna Nadeina. Thanks for having me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=447-...

Reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. — The Party (1984)

Asking AI to generate a country list created: 'Taiwan, Province of China'. Has it predictive powers already?

Two diverging curves for CO2 Emissions from an ArcelorMittal steel plant

The two curves here should be the same. Obviously, they are not.

If you are at #39c3 and want to learn about the unusual things I found in Greenhouse Gas Emission Databases, come to stage One at 11h
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
There's a livestream: streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/one

CuiiListe.de Die CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.

cuiiliste.de

Anna's archive blocked by my German ISP through #CUII 'Clearinghouse Copyright on the Internet c/o Self-Regulation Information Economy e.V.'. 'Self Regulation' as an euphemism for 'Censorship'.

Small team, big ideas Our new platform launched in BETA recently. That was a big milestone for us. But there is still a mountain of work ahead before we can drop the BETA label. We are competing with giants. No VC money to...

Too many ideas. Too little time.
blog.fortrabbit.com/small-team-b...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

I donated to archive.org today.

A bit, but also testing og:image to be displayed correctly for the new blog.

My favorite Facebook bot designs As a hosting provider we fight against all kind of frauds, hacks, scams and phishings. This is my favorite, mostly harmless service misuse.

From the blog archive (2018) when Facebook bots where hot.
blog.fortrabbit.com/favorite-fac...

Hanno Böck has a unique presentation style and something to say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCZy...

I have discovered a weird trick. It’s literally impossible for me to look at this photograph and not cry in public.

New platform public BETA A new hosting experience at your fingertips

Years in the making. The big bet. It's here now. Finally.
blog.fortrabbit.com/new-platform...

jQuery 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 | Official jQuery Blog jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

Amazing. jQuery is still maintained and new major version will come out soon.
blog.jquery.com/2025/08/11/j...