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I played the @austinkleon.bsky.social blackout game with Ian's post. WordPress among so many other things out there still uses PHP and the job security it provides, much like COBOL, should be protected at all costs. frfr tho be safe out there friends and patch your shit, thoughtfully and fast.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

21/10/26, 2:51 pm0 reposts3 likes

Brosemite Sam

@brosemitesam.bsky.social

As someone who doesn't know much about web development other than like HTML, but willing to learn, what would be alternative languages that do the same thing as PHP? Is it kind of like Javascript?

Alex Wykoff

@distributed.camp

Seriously great question! What's an example of would you like to build and how in the weeds do you want to get technically vs putting focus on other things like design, marketing, etc?

Alex Wykoff

@distributed.camp

Still need an edit button on this app here... What's an example of what you would like to build?

Brosemite Sam

@brosemitesam.bsky.social

Just to get some experience, probably like a personal website with some interactive maps using Leaflet (JS mapping library)

Alex Wykoff

@distributed.camp

If you already know to use Leaflet, it sounds like you're pretty experienced already. So is the question more about server-side / backend?