on that note, im once again begging fedi to help me find work. ive been out of stable work for years now, and all my freelance clients (which were few, but enough to help me get by) are all in on ai

im in canada, and can do many things: web (javascript)! web (not javascript)! php (still web)! rust (web, but also cooler stuff)! system administration or whatever the job is called nowadays (linux, vms, cloud (but not cloud cloud please, aws bad), kubernetes, containers)! even a smidge of security!

i dont know how to write these for them to do anything. i posted so many times that i'm available, that i'm skilled, and that i need something. it'll get shared, but nothing happens

so please reach out even if you don't know what i might be useful for! you might save my life

#fediHire #getFediHired #boost

If you're looking for a nice #sqlite webui, like phpmyadmin, that allows for viewing, editing, optimising and performance profiling. Look no further. Take a peek at my project LiteAdmin. It runs on #php, and contains no external dependencies.

https://github.com/martijndeb/liteadmin

It's a project that started because I needed it for my dayjob. It does contain a lot of AI code, and clearly marked as such. If that's not your thing, that's okay. If you think it's a decent project, leave a star, I could use the visibility to get accepted into some awesome lists.

In my (biased) opinion, I think this is one of the more important PHP RFCs proposed in recent years. It establishes a framework for working groups in the PHP project and lays the foundation for project governance.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/working_groups

#PHP

Updated my /now page today, with an essay on the semi-quincentennial of the US.

tl;dr: I hate what we've become as a nation, and hope we can change.

https://mwop.net/then/2026-07

#politics #semiquincentennial #uspol

@artemis Oscar Wilde, a fuckin rich man, got it:

"Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal."

Suppose you *could* through constant labor, strenuous planning, & deprivation manage to feed yourself & your family on a tiny budget, that would still be extreme poverty.

I hate that people who aren't in poverty try to explain to those who are "no, really, you can survive. You just need to find a way to suffer a little more."

The problem is not a lack of ingenuity & creativity. The problem is poverty. No one should have to struggle every moment of every day just to live.

@baldur I slightly disagree with you on this. A lot of people have very rarely if ever had any sort of consistent, support or praise in their lives or careers, and - even if we recognize this as automated, obsequious garbage - I think it's important to keep some kernel of empathy in us for the possibility we're seeing a victim of abuse or neglect, not an aspiring tyrant. Not that it's likely, just that it's possible.

For people like that, using an LLM is the same shape as joining a cult.

A haiku about #ADHD
One quick Wikipedia.Now I know every battleof the Punic Wars. Why?
#adhd

Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out? You lost all the goodwill of your remaining employees and the skill of the ones who left? Poor baby, who could have done this to you https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

Burnham could hoof Palantir out of the NHS if he becomes PM.

A good start, but he needs to go further. It’s time to completely break our dependency on US tech firms.

With open source tech, we don't have to start again with a new platform when changing vendors.

Go big, go for UK Digital Sovereignty!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/02/burnham-set-to-ditch-palantir-from-nhs/

#digitalsovereignty #techsovereignty #nhs #burnham #palantir #bigtech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

A warning about American fascism https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-warning-about-american-fascism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.

That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.

Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/

Who owns the code that Claude wrote?

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/who-owns-the-code-claude-wrote/

#AI #LLM #Copyright #Legal

Maybe it’s about time we add ‘no cryptocurrency’ and ‘no AI’ to the Mastodon features list

Right beside the ‘no ads’ and ‘no tracking’

Crazy we live in a time where the ‘no’ features make you a better alternative

I don’t usually share messages from the government but this one’s important so please pay close attention.

Wow, since we launched less than 6 months ago, we passed 3,000 videos hosted on https://phpc.tv (1.6 TB!)

Come watch videos about PHP.

If your favorite PHP content creator isn't there, invite them to join the community!