Stefan Zweifel

@iamrobin@mastodon.social I caught myself this week while writing a tech blog post, thinking it doesn’t matter whether I write it or not. An LLM might just churn out the same tutorial for someone anyway. Might still finish it, just as an exercise for myself.

@danb@fosstodon.org Nice! I had this as a todo for years to try to write a Yjs implementation in PHP. I hope I can give this a spin soon.

@emd@cosocial.ca Apple Watch S9. Used to be a total fan boy and wore it 24/7 and had like a 500 day streak of closing rings all the time. Now I don’t care that much abkut tracked calories and activity minutes. I still go to the gym 5 times a week, but I don’t use the watch as the measure on how good the workout was. I‘m also sleeping better since I don’t wear it anymore. Maybe a placebo effect; started doing that only 2 weeks ago.

@barning@norden.social @Kroc@oldbytes.space Microsoft Encarta 2003 (?) war mein Ding. Da gabs ein 3D Model von einer japanischen Burg und von Pyramiden. Stunden da verbracht.

@bastianallgeier@mastodon.social @iamrobin@mastodon.social Well put. The human layer is still what I cherrish the most. Yeah a tutorial could be written by an AI, but it wouldn't explain with screenshots from a real product how it is used. Or that you built it this way because you had good discussions with peers.

@LeedsPHP We (@swiss_laravel_association) are moving to Luma. https://luma.com/laravel.swiss?locale=en-GB Simple and effective at what it does.

@valorin@phpc.social Welcome back, Stephen. Hope everything is okay on your side.

Wrote about how I modernized and streamlined my dotfiles after a recent hardware failure. Also took the time to speed up my shell start-up while introducing a few new tools. https://stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2026/07/07/modernizing-my-dotfiles/

The AWS account for my open source stuff, that hasn’t triggered any CI jobs in the past few days, apparently produced $970 billion Lambda costs. 😂 #aws

#odyssey 4.5/5 The soundtrack is a master piece. So well balanced. Always there but almost never in the center of attention. The IMAX sound mix for the cave scene almost destroyed my ears though.

RE: https://phpc.social/@swiss_laravel_association/116957160602877754 I think the first time we will have 3 talks and 4 speakers.

The State Of Laravel 2026 survey has started! You can now participate to identify how the ecosystem changed over the past 12 months! https:// stateoflaravel.com/?ref=2026 #Laravel

@kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com Gratulation! Heute auch mein letzter Urlaubstag und habe die Versuchung leider ablegen können und das MacBook doch einige Male gestartet. Hoffe bei dir hält die Motivation lange an!

@emd@cosocial.ca Same! I hope I spot you somewhere. Thanks to Deutsche Bahn, our train hasn’t even officially left Switzerland yet. So fingers crossed we make it today. 😅

@emd@cosocial.ca Good question which I would like to blog about as well. I think just my outlook on tech in general and the diminishing returns of wearing the watch for almost 8 years now. I know where my strengths and weaknesses are. I know how much calories I burn on average (though the watch seems to be inaccurate anyway?). I really want to do a test week of not wearing the watch anymore. But I know I would miss my gym-tracking app (Strong & Hevy).

@RyuKurisu@fosstodon.org @ironicbadger@techhub.social I think iOS does this for Photos.app permissions and locations. Got a couple of modals before like „Example App has been using location information in the background100 times in the last 30 days, want to keep it?“

@pwa@norden.social Das Ende einer Ära. 🫡

@pwa@norden.social Zum Glück ein Bug. Der zweite Account schuldet nur $2 Billions.

@bobmagicii@phpc.social I just remembered that we had 1 talk / 2 speakers before. Just before the new group took over the meetup organization. Our biggest problem right now is more the attendance. The last 3-4 meetups we had single digit attendance. 🫠

@denniskoch@phpc.social No need to. You have always quite the journey.

@nicoverbruggen@phpc.social @spatie@phpc.social Congrats! What lovely news.

@outofcontrol@phpc.social @emd@cosocial.ca I would also have mentioned the kitchen timers. :D I don't own a Homepod, so controlling my lights from the wrist is nice, but that's not a deal breaker. Apple Pay on the wrist has come in handy as well a couple of times, but I still walk around with a phone. Over the summer I'm probably going to do a "1 week pause" of wearing the watch.