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Dan Leech
@dantleech@fosstodon.org
mastodon 4.7.3Developing the Phpactor (@phpactor@phpc.social) language server, PHPBench, and other stuff. Working with #PHP, #Go, Typescript. Bad musician, not good at spelling. Learning #Rust painfully.
Will upgrade your PHP projects in exchange for money. My opinions are yours unless otherwise stated
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Hello Daniel, I hope you don't mind me reaching out...
I do mind. Unconditionally.
My feelings towards slop are not getting better.
I can no longer tell what's real and what's not: if I should be impressed, entertained, worried - if I should give something my attention at all.
I don't want AI slop in my face and the only content I trust on social media is that which is created by people who hate slop as much as I do.
POV the upgrade you've been working on is faster in every single envuironment except the one you don't have access to, where it is, slower.
The interface cargo cult:
I'm seeing:
XInterfaceis registered as a service ID in the controller. OK.- It returns a concrete implementation.. OK.
Then:
- The concrete implementation's class is also registerd in the DI
- It returns the interface
- The concrete implementation X is not retrieved via. the XInterface service but by X.
- The "XInterface" is not used in production code
- There is a test that tests that X implements the XInterface.
That's it.
them: so that will be £20 a month for 12 months.
me: _thinks_
me: _still thinking_
me: so that's £120 a year
them: ... no
- This washing machine has AI weight-sense technology.
- This TV has AI Brightness.
- etc.
It's called a fucking algorithm (and if it's not then WTF are you doing)
So have put enough effort into this for now. #php package to visualize/survey installed composer dependencies:
https://github.com/dantleech/depgraph
Blog post about #php collections and cats in pipes: https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2026/03/15/php-collections-and-you/
(ok, they're in cans, and I didn't write about them)
I've had some negativity in regards to Phpactor recently, mostly as it has been distributed as the default PHP LS for Zed and falls short of people's expectations in terms of usability and performance - and I've also seen it described as a "joke".
"Jokes" aside I can't argue with the performance aspect and also don't have the time or energy to dedicate to it that I once had, so I put a disclaimer at the top of the README.
Was nice to get some unexpected positive comments on that commit .
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org I basically blank everything after "ChatGPT/Claude/Trump said" and skip to the next paragraph.
TFW you leave pretty detailed feedback on a PR explaining why suggsetions were made and the response is: "they're mostly personal opinions, but that's ok". Like, no, they're objective suggestions to improve the code. I leave "personal opinioins" to CS fixers.
Also shit day makes shit worse.
and the docs include "active" examples that are tested part of the build. That's one of the things I'm happy abut with the PHPBench docs - most of the examples are run in CI.
corporate PC:
- no you can't run that Rust binary
- but I can run PHP right?
- yep
I know I'm in the minority here, but BIG emojis and animated gifs have no place in messaging software. In fact all animation must be stopped.
Unhinged, sweary but beautifully illustrated blog post about legacy project structure: Space - the Final Straw
https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2026/01/30/space-the-final-straw
#php
Had a great #unKonf in Mannheim, enjoyed the format and met some great people. Would unKonf again. Recommended 👍
me: I'll just quickly refactor the PHPBench expression language to support `.` notation for relative paths.
me: oh god I'm pulling on this thread and it never stops.
because destroying power plants and civlian infrastructure is a proven method to win hearts and minds and end wars right.
If an app sends me marketing notifications then thats an instant uninstall. Bye AirBnb
plan: take afternoon off:
- go for a run
- draw a picture
- do some open source stuff
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@shochdoerfer @alessandrolai @LeedsPHP @phpugmrn it would be awesome if a federated service got traction. Commercial products always risk being incentivised to enshittify when they have critical mass and then you just have another meetup situation 😅
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oh no. I asked "what if my home server could be my smart TV" and it led me to KDE Plasma:
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/KDE#Installation
Entering another rabbithole.
Just found a grainy and distorted phone video of me playing Chopin's Ballade No 1. in 2008.
I didn't read music fluently at the time (and I can barely do so now). But I learnt by a combination of muscle memory, ear and slowly counting notes on the staves over many many months.
All forgotten now.
Have added a "line item" view to my plain-text-time-logging TUI. Along with Phactor this is the only other one of my projects that I use frequently. I have logged 866 days so far since October 2022.
For some reason I also made the worst DSL for filtering.
@DaveLiddament thanks for this series, I learnt a few new things. happy xmas!
(also not sure you covered --onto - that's one of the tricks I learned over the past years)
Maintaining a feature branch. Feel like that greek person trying to push a rock up a hill but people are pushing it from the other side. Also it makes me the its-too-late-its-already-merged reviewer of code thats so awful I want to cry.
ok, spent maybe 5 (!?) hours today updating the @phpbench@phpc.social expression language to support generating the JSON required to feed the `github-action-benchmark` github action and getting it all running on Phpactor.
https://phpactor.github.io/phpactor/dev/bench/
Next I guess I'll document how to set it up.
PHPBench 1.6 released: https://github.com/phpbench/phpbench/releases/tag/1.6.0
Haven't spent that long doing any O/S in ages. Tired. 😆
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@markusstaab@phpc.social @Romm@mastodon.social fww I've just added support for JSON output in master branch of PHPBench and considering supportng that GH action output format directly (although it can also be a copy/paste JSON config) 🤔
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@jaapio@phpc.social @peach@phpc.social https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate is interesting. But surely the bigger barrier is teaching/converting your co-workers VIM 😅 (hmm, tmate doesn't look so alive)
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Dan 3(?) with a KVM setup switching between personal and client-provided laptop.
- Switching takes around 4 seconds which is pretty annoying.
- The Keychron Q17 is nice but I can't type well on it yet :/
- Having a single USB-C cable going to each laptop is great.
- This setup kinda suggests getting a webcam + mic - also annoying.
- The Mac insits on having a "mac" keyboard layout even when selecting Britsh PC (that was one of the problems I had intended to solve)
Is anybody capable of doing the two-fingered "right click" on a Mac? Or is is something that Mac users tend to simply not do? Is there something wrong with my fingers?
F-Keys are a lie in 2026 (and probably since 2006 when laptop manufacturers unaimously agreed that it was too expensive to have dedicated media buttons).No I can't use them on MacOS due to every combination I can think of resulting in some random shitty MacOS thing happening and nothing gets through to Kitty.
grr. trying to build Python RST docs locally for the first time in years is not fun. Also I ran 15 miles yesterday and the sun is shining and I want to run another 15 but I know if I do I will destroy my legs.
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@spacebuffer@fosstodon.org @phpactor@phpc.social yeah, will be better when it works in more places, hopefully something for the next release :)
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@loicfaugeron@phpc.social would be very interesting for Phactor - my only concern is how much you can trust the upstream provider of the PHP "binary"- but maybe it's already establushed enough that we're "past that" ?
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@george@phpc.social although now the opposite is true and cam't use the media keys even when holding down the magic fn button. oh well 🤣
you know it's hot when you're still pouring sweat 20 minutes after finishing a run.