Sweden had nuclear weapons program and was only six months away from completing a working bomb in 1965. Program was abandoned in 1966.
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Laravel is no longer just a PHP framework; it now resembles Java Spring — an opinionated, enterprise-friendly ecosystem where everything can be connected through configuration. The focus has shifted towards businesses and teams rather than personal or hobbyist projects.
For those who prefer a more traditional framework with long-term stability and fewer commercial dependencies, Symfony remains a solid alternative.
Relevant threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1iyyxk4/laravel_is...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1j05wh1/laravel_is_goi...
Finding tabs was a bit of hit or miss, you can search for them if remember the title, otherwise you have to manually find it, time consuming.
With my new strategy that I described above, it has become much easier to find what I’m looking for.
Bookmarking has always been clunky, putting them into hierarchical folder structure is both time consuming and has the same problem as files and folders, it lacks a dimension, a bookmark can be in multiple folders.
Bookmark toolbar could work, how paradoxical it may sound with all the tabs opened, it just don’t like that UI element cluttering my browser.
Forgetting about bookmarks can be a good thing, it is similar when browser loses all opened tabs, the feeling is a strange mix of anxiety and relief, anxiety of missing out but a relief that I don’t need to process them anymore.
Sometimes a find ten year old bookmarks on some backup, most bookmarks dead or just out of date. I feel we need better ways to organize things in this temporary cloud world.
What would be nice is a browser where tabs, history and bookmarks blended together seamlessly.
My latest move was to merge every tab in all windows to one window only (with an extension) and start using vertical tabs (better scrolling and overview of tabs) Then sort tabs by title with another extension (Edge built in AI tab sort sucked on sorting so many tabs). With sorted tabs I could start create tab groups, Edge AI tab sort worked better when the tabs was already sorted alphabetically and managed to create most of the tab groups for me. With all this reorganization it was easier to manage all of them and to start closing tabs.
I’m not done yet but it is much better and number of opened tabs has been significantly reduced. Now I have one main window with all the tabs and some temporary windows that is only used for temporary stuff that get closed within a day.
What makes things a bit more complicated is that I also use two profiles, private and work. Firefox always sucked on multi-profile setup. Firefox’s new container stuff is somewhat improvement but not fully (at least when I tried last)
Chromium devtools has more features but more cluttered and more annoying to work with.For the common devtools tasks Firefox works better IMHO. But that can be my bias after using Firefox/Firebug devtools for over 15 years.
Apparently the president can appoint temporary advisors that does not need approval from congress. If Mr Musk qualifies for such appointment I guess is that something for the courts to decide. I guess that implies that the audit itself is time framed.
President of France is probably the most comparable, but in France you also have the prime minister, selected by the president but supported by the parliament.
In Sweden we have a separation of powers within the executive branch. Government agencies are independent of the cabinet.
DOGE’s audit wouldn’t be possible in Sweden, that would have required legislation or even constitutional changes.
Sweden has already an independent government agency that audits the rest of the government, but it has support in the constitution for that and it is technically administered by the parliament and not the cabinet.
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My personal opinion is that the US system of government is vastly inferior to Sweden’s.
That is why I kept my container library simple, you read thru all the source in less than 15 minutes.
What I like about it is that it is natural to use composition with classes, it encourages to create classes to divide your application into reusable parts.
And with my library all you do is to put the dependent class in the constructor. My library can without much effort be replaced with normal factory, that is by design.
Warning PHP https://github.com/paketphp/bero
Yes, in mainstream PHP you use the webserver to leverage forking. The great thing about that is that vastly simplifies the language and any frameworks written in that language. No, it doesn’t force anything to the client.
Also any performance gains made in web server technology is given to PHP for free.
In Java and Python and the like you typically have a thread pool to handle every request, this has the benefit that you can share memory with mutexes between request (threads) . However 99% of cases that is not typically something you want, to have leaky requests, thus most of the time you write code similar to PHP to avoid any hard to debug lock. In Python you also have bad threading performance because of the GIL, thus you avoid anything that steps into that.
Thus PHP share-nothing-model wins again. It is also a natural fit to stateless REST. In PHP you use the database to share memory (data), which is a natural fit in a web stack. And as with the web server you can now leverage any performance gains in database technology.
Nodejs is of course complete trash with the mini freezes of the event loop. And to leverage multiprocess you have to use something like cluster, thus you are back to share-nothing again.
Thus what you argue for is to change a successful request and memory model because of that 1% use case. That is dumb.
Now there are proposals to fix function autoloading but it won’t fix variables and constants.
One way to do it better is to implement modules.
Also when working with projects that are 10+ years and lines of codes a million you will run into this. Sure you can always fork and move the library to another namespace, but that is extra work.
Modules are vastly superior to namespaces, with modules it is the caller that decides the symbol, with namespaces it is the callee.
Another problem with namespaces in PHP is that you can’t put anything into it, like a variable, it is not like namespace in C++. Namespace in PHP is just name added to the class or function name, kind of fake. Don’t get me wrong, it was a pragmatic solution to a real problem and it worked for what it tried to solve, make it easier to share code.
Modules could be elegantly solved in PHP by reusing the internal concept for a class (how it is with enums and interfaces)
Modules would also make it easier to unit test code, because you will not need to worry about a symbol already have been loaded and can’t get unloaded.
With that said I don’t think it the most important feature to focus on, there are others that give more bang for the buck, like string templating and operator overloading.
Concurrency support is not needed because that is what the webserver is for.
But Java has more ceremony with the stricter type system.
A bigger problem (at least with older Java versions) is string building and templating. You typically do a lot of string stuff in web development.
Deployments and dependency management are worse with the wars and the jars and how to build them.
PHP is closer to the metal so to speak where many APIs are thin layers around various C libraries, e.g I find working with database (JDBC?) in Java annoying. I feels like Java is it’s own island in that way.
Java’s plus is better performance for CPU heavy tasks, connection pooling and easier when you do things asynchronous. Streams are a plus too. But those things are not important enough to pick Java over PHP IMHO.
This is what the yanks call "a complete nothing-burger".