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snov··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
What's so special about the other 2%, is it good?
snov··on Kobo can run apps now
can it run Doom?
snov··on PHP in 2022
Yup, tried that. It’s a bit too complex imho but works too.
snov··on PHP in 2022
aha, that looks good. Thanks
snov··on PHP in 2022
I meant Docker. The fact that I needed multiple processes (nginx+fpm) made PHP setup tricky compared with e.g. Java with embedded server.
snov··on PHP in 2022
Is it? Last time I used PHP (around 5.x-7.x) it was exactly the other way around. For production you needed php-fpm, nginx, opcode cache... it was a nightmare compared with go or even java. Is it better now?
snov··on PHP in 2022
PHP was a pretty cool language back in the days. Bizarre (yet fast) stdlib and ugly syntax, but super quick to write web stuff, supported by every shared hosting.

Nowadays, it seems to mimic Java, while having inferior libraries, I'm not sure what's the advantage.

snov··on An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
I had the same thoughts, but changed them over time. If not leetcode, it quickly comes to very specific questions about the interviewer's favourite thing and its quirks. A complete hit or miss.
snov··on Plan 9 Coding Conventions for C
my favorite is

  if (statement)
  //  one;
    two;