If you're running into overloaded servers or slow vendor for the updated PHP packages and if you're running Ubuntu, do this:

Download the key:
curl -fsSL https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg -o /tmp/sury.gpg

Add it:
install -m 644 /tmp/sury.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/deb.sury.org-php.gpg

Add the source:
cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.sources <<'EOF'
Types: deb
URIs: https://packages.sury.org/php/
Suites: noble
Components: main
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/deb.sury.org-php.gpg
EOF

Then just do apt update, etc...

(sury.org has the same maintainer as the launchpad ppa ondrej repos)

Bam, updated all servers in 12 minutes before the actual release time they were going to release it at.

PHP published their new packages.
Unfortunately, they're not in any package manager yet...

Ah yes, just what I needed this busy week: PHP crapping the bed and me needing to quickly whip up a workaround because I can't just pull the plug on 48 servers.

I think I've done it from what I've dug through (disabling upload progress and stopping multipart requests), but f me...

Just removed Reddit from my phone. It’s becoming as toxic and bot-riddled as Twitter was/is.

I miss the times people could have a civil discussion online without trying to absolutely hurt the other person in the most vile way possible.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

*breathes in*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, just an addition: i'm not looking for a job or anything, I'm just really proud of my website.

I just rebuilt my personal website. I've put a lot of time into it, so I would love it if you'd check it out.

https://oversoft.nl

I aimed it to not be the standard "hi, I'm a coder" website and I wanted to reflect my love of Italy. I think that worked out well.

AI models are starting to give me existential dread. I kinda have to use them for my work, but they're currently starting to become so good that I worry about not just my job, but basically every office worker.

Yes, LLMs have actually creeped up that "wow, this is ACTUALLY doing my job" territory.

Just finished my A1-A3 and A2 EU drone certificate exams (for open category), only to find out my house lies in a restricted zone and I will need a “specific” (STS) license to make a video of my own house…

Frustrating…

Getting a phone call from your builder when you can’t answer, then sending a message “sorry, can’t answer the phone right now, can you send it as a message?” and then receiving nothing after it having been read is always a nice way to start of your weekend.

Went to the Dara Ó Briain’s show in Eindhoven tonight. (Re:creation)

Excellent story, very funny audience interactions (especially when he didn’t know what ASML is, in a town filled with ASML engineers). He’s excellent at making a sad/real life story funny and heartwarming.

I’ve been working with drywall for the past 2 weeks, building walls and soffits. I’m extremely proud of the results, but goddamn my back is killing me, cutting the panels on the ground, screwing the panels to studs (on the ground) and bending over to cut weird angles to match the extremely crooked walls our 260+ year old house has.

This is after 2 weeks, I have to idea how actual builders do this for most of their working life.

Today was the first day I was honestly incredibly impressed by Claude Code.

I was working on an Android device which I need to provision in bulk. I've built the AOSP ROM myself, but I needed to access the userdata partition from outside of the device (which is quite hard in recent Android versions, because the filesystem is encrypted using device keys). For testing purposes, I wanted to disable filesystem encryption and switch the userdata partition to ext4.

I did this myself, but ran into an issue when using recovery mode to clear out the userdata partition. The recovery image was set up to use the f2fs file system and not ext4. I could manually use mke2fs to format the partition, but seeing as I was testing and wanted to clear the userdata partition often, this was less than ideal.

I gave Claude Code access to adb and my serial terminal hooked up to the debug UART of my device. All by itself, it extracted the recovery partition, extracted it, patched the fstab, packed up the image and then flashed it back.

This is far FAR beyond what I expected Claude Code would be able to do. It worked, first time and it saved me at least an hour in reading documentation on cpio and other image generation/unpacking tools.

It's also quite scary. Yes, I still needed to tell it what to do and what I expected and obviously, this was quite technical. But it did it. All on it's own.

Have these tools actually become good / useful?

Just seen the northern lights above our house. First time seeing them this clearly.

Unpopular opinion:

I miss the old Twitter. I had many (online and IRL) friends there. I left when Elon took over and the group has fragmented. I don’t speak to many of them anymore. Mastodon is simply not the same, and never felt the same for me.

I’m mostly social-media-free at the moment, and although it’s much better for my brain, I do miss the genuinely nice conversations and IRL meet-ups I’ve had because of it.

I’ve been experimenting with running LLMs locally, trying it with Opencode. (A sort of open source claude code like cli tool to run LLMs against your code base), because I refuse to give OpenAI or Anthropic my code.

I tend to test them with small tasks and then expand to bigger tasks.

Today I loaded the “Qwen3 coder 30B” model and asked it to convert a medium sized ReactJS project to Vue. It refused, because apparently it thinks it might allow me to create malicious code.

Yeah, I think programmers might be fine for the foreseeable future.

Step 1 of our Italian solar and battery install completed.

3x Victron Multiplus II 48V 5000VA inverters
1x Victron SmartSolar MPPT RS 450|200 (11kW) solar charge controller

Mounted on OSB panels with Red (fire proof) plasterboard on top.

Next step: 32 EVE MB30 cells in 2 battery boxes with JK BMSes and the Victron Lynx busbars.

I got a disembarkation ticket for our boat.

Guess I’m standing by.

The joys of living rurally…

This is the second time in 5 months that a rat or mouse has chewed through a cable in our garden.

We have a network of pipes in our garden through which wires run to several sections of our yard. On the intersections of those pipes there are inspection pits, which I suspect are popular locations for rodents to visit.

Last time we had a large arcflash and a fire, this time I caught it before it became a problem.

Here in Italy, they don’t have cables with metal shielding, so I’m looking for a different solution to protect the wires. Does anyone have an idea?