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Andreas Gohr
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PHP version stats: July, 2026 Written on 2026-07-09 Welcome back to another blog post about PHP's version usage across the community. You can read the previous edition here, but as always I'll include historic data in this post as well....
Some days all I can say is ay yi yi. Or oy. Or fuuuuuuuuck. You know, those wordless expressions of mostly-vowel sounds the outbreathing of which, the offgassing of which you hope will take away some of the poison, some of the poison...
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in its simplest form, is the idea that the language you speak influences the thoughts you think. This post is about a twist on this idea, that I’m calling “Inverse Sapir-Whorf” (for want of a better term), and...
Someone submitted an issue to one of our open GitHub repositories a week ago, suggesting a new feature. We didn’t respond, since we didn’t notice it. Today, someone else submitted an implementation of the feature in a pull request. I...
Hi, my friends! I can’t believe we are halfway through the year already and this is my first time writing up a new blog for you. To say life has been busy would be an understatement. Now that things have slowed down a little, I hope to...
When I was in middle school and high school, my parents didn’t allow me to drink soda. But they had a secret stash of Coca-Cola in the garage fridge. I still don’t know why it was there. My parents didn’t drink soda. Maybe it was for...
Mise en Place 06 Apr, 2026 Putting in place, a French culinary term I scoffed at as a home cook. I considered it a fancy step done by those who have never had to wash their own dishes, all the dainty little containers for every single...
This year the Web Standards podcast for the Russian-speaking community celebrated 10 years. You might’ve spotted the podcast in the State of JavaScript 2025 results and wondered what it’s doing there. For almost as long, we were...
@itsbrian is on omg.lol! This random indieblog.page link was picked on Sunday, July 5th 2026. It was originally published on Sunday, January 11th 2026 at BrianWolf.tv. If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog,...
Nice Marmot "Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man." Paradise Season 2 We finished watching Paradise Season 2 last night. I was wondering/hoping it'd wrap the whole thing up, but I guess we're getting a third...
I read a comment stating that git (a tool programmers use to collaborate on code, sort of like Word’s Track Changes) is not a version control system but a “system for creating a version control system.” That got me thinking about other...
FFXIV: Evercold Announcements, My Thoughts on the Future Posted on May 9, 2026 by Aywren Final Fantasy XIV Evercold – Releases in January 2027! I was present at the 2026 FFXIV NA Fanfestival, so I got to be a part of the crowd that...
When I’m using CSS Grid, I’ll often set a grid-template-columns for each breakpoint. Usually, I’m going for something like two columns on mobile, three on tablet, and four on desktop. However, with auto-fit and minmax(), this can happen...
Similar to the tradition of publishing the annual list of Defaults, this is the review of my current subscriptions. I’ve also published the lists in 2023 and 2024. Event though I have a Bear lifetime subscription, I moved my blog to...
Data Oriented Programming in Java: Progress Update 2026-02-21 Published: 2026-02-21 Available in MEAP: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 Pending reviews: Chapter 10 , Chapter 11 Currently working on: Cleaning up the book I sent the final...