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The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.

Interesting turn of events. https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/ #php #wordpress #WordpressDrama

Ready to give your Filament panel a new look? Come take a look at our brand new, first-party Filament Themes: Soft, Sharp, and Noir! In addition, we’ve also dropped a new modifier theme that works with the default and new themes: Compact. More info in the replies!

Travelled to Makueni and Machakos this week. Got an awful BnB in Wote Town and now just checked into a really nice one in Machakos. Feels like a weight has been lifted.

41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.

Always wondered what your browser tells the world about you even when you have cookies disabled? kuber.studio/cookie/

An Australian user asked OpenClaw to book him into a gym class and move him up from 4th on the waitlist. The agent figured out various exploits in the insecure gym software to delete other people from the waitlist and book classes weeks in advance before they opened. This is a dog bites man story.

It’s not easy to make Sepp Blatter look like a reasonable, moral man but Infantino has managed it.

“The climate crisis will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you are the one filming it”. @PerthshireMags on the site formerly known as Twitter.

Did you know that women also play football? The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which also serves as the continental World Cup qualifier, starts tomorrow. It’s going to be free to air in a bunch of countries - check with your national broadcaster.

Laravel Installer v5.31 includes a new command: 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊𝚐𝚎 This new command kicks off an interactive prompt that scaffolds out a Laravel package using our (new) (official) package skeleton: github.com/laravel/pack... Enjoy!

“Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.” - Bernie Sanders

I switched from using a bunch of different webmail services to @thunderbird.net and it's a breath of fresh air. I always thought mail clients were old school, but I was really suffering.

This will never not make me laugh out loud 😂

I just used ffmpeg for the first time. Insanely useful and quick.

Incredible

here is the new CSS Border shape API this is going to unlock so many sick new designs

Trying FrankenPHP...

Android 16 for the Fairphone 6 is here. Still slower than some mainstream brands, but much faster than previous android rollout. Hope they keep improving!

Happy Pi + 314 day! Double celebration for those in St. Louis...

MacBook Neo performs over 3x faster than the 28-core Mac Pro in single core Geekbench That machine was price at $13,000 (28-core Xeon W, 32/256GB)

php://memory is a stream that lives in RAM. php://temp starts in RAM, spills to disk after 2MB (configurable, see below!). No tmpfile(). No temp directory. No cleanup. Perfect for building files in memory before sending in #PHP! Did you know the "maxmemory: " trick?

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

🧟 Official native Windows support for FrankenPHP is here 🪟🚀 dunglas.dev/2026/03/wind...

this is so cool haptics.lochie.me

If you have a Dell XPS (or any Dell for that matter) check for bloat ware named "Killer Performance Driver Suite". It will absolutely destroy your performance and battery life - and cause your devices to have weird glitches.

This video makes me think about how Nairobi has very similar problems but is investing nearly nothing in public transport - only bigger roads.

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

How fast can you make it? Here's the 100-million-row challenge in #PHP: stitcher.io/feed/posts/7... You have two weeks to participate. Thanks to PhpStorm and Tideways for sponsoring the prizes!

The matrix must be real.

I'm seeing more people use X's article feature to share content. I really wouldn't do that. Sure, they'll probably give you more exposure in the short term, but in the long term you want to stay the owner of your own content. Start your own blog if you want to share things 🙂

I’m going to say this louder for the people in the back, the “AI productivity boost” is that it helps you get to a first draft faster. LLMs are not good enough for you to not review the output and just publish. If they were then your job wouldn’t need you anyway.

routes/web.php is boring and reliable, and routes/api.php is fancy, but have you forgotten one? securinglaravel.com/security-tip...

Pipes on Windows 98