Andrew Feeney

@ben.slinger.com.au Are any of your point and click titles suitable for 10 year olds?

Removing the chain guard from my bike in solidarity

It's probably a good time to announce any pending infosec disclosures you have, you know "put it out with the trash" so-to-speak.

In the Dead of the Knife, our game for the @synty.bsky.social Spooky Jam, is out now! Action, comedy, knives, skill shots, voice acting, knives, horror, slo-mo, time trials, and even knives! This is the most fun @trevhscott.bsky.social and I have had on a jam 😀 bslinger.itch.io/in-the-dead-...

Say what you want about PHP, but I have never in my career seen the community rally as hard as they did just now in the face of php2shell.

Remember that scene in the wire where the newly elected mayor calls the fire department and says "there's a leaking hydrant" but hangs up before saying which one, and the fire department has to scramble to check all the hydrants. I feel like that's what is happening (unintentionally) in PHP today.

A Critical PHP Security Release is coming in 13 hours - you need to be ready to patch your servers. securinglaravel.com/laravel-secu... #Laravel

Okay #infosec and #php folks, who has some gossip to share on php2shell?

Calling my new band "The Honest Gap"

Click Click Clack Symphony + Modern Major General mashup when?

Everybody who uses AI less than me is a Luddite but everyone who uses AI more than me has AI psychosis.

We Bought A Zoo For Tax Purposes

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? SAHM: That was when I devoted myself to humanitarian work in early childhood development and literacy, providing food security for people with special requirements, and large-scale, long-term project management for a variety of community needs.

Claude is always telling me to "say the word", but it never tells me what the word is.

Anguilla has the chance to do the funniest thing

Having a lot of fun revisiting old posts and giving the ones that never had their own hero some love.

Someone yelled across the gym this morning asking if I could spot them. I said “That’s a load bearing observation and it’s worth calling out.”

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere. It was the element of <surprise>.

Money is no object. It’s really more of a concept that we associate with certain types of objects.

Sure I'm a human-in-the-loop. Every day it's the same thing, over and over.

At my local to catch a gig

I think ... I think my job has become ingesting and summarising AI generated text.

Hey, friends—I'm excited to share my new project! I call it Tupo. It's a daily logic puzzle with roots in sudoku, where every cell has to have a unique color-number combo. Give it a shot if you like daily logic games, and let me know what you think! playtupo.com

Not all who wander are lost. Some are just pensive but also bad at spelling.

Advice request: What is the *correct* display for a MBP today?

I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com

My current display has lasted longer than the Beatles

Is anyone here gainfully employed as a software engineer / developer / programmer / insert equivalent term, who only learned to code after having generated code with LLMs? Or do you know anyone who is?

Would it’ve killed ya?

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create software, and software creates hard times

By shipping personal computers with the top 256 GIFs stored in a ROM chip, global energy consumption could be reduced by upwards of 1.7%. In this essay I will

Roman cavalry choir practice

It's starting to sink in a bit more as I study system design. At its core, an app boils down to reads and writes If a system is read-heavy, scale it for high availability (so users can always get data quickly). If a system is write-heavy, we tune it for strict consistency

I will sleep when I'm *dead. * i.e. soon, from sleep deprivation

A brick-laying business owned by an older married couple would be a mom-an-pop brick-and-mortar store, whereas a baby supplies store with brick walls would be a brick-and-mortar mom-and-pop shop.

99% of BlueSkiers discard their draft right before posting a banger.

Need a new keyboard. Have only ever used stock keyboards. Apple or mechanical? If mechanical, which one. I just want an amazing high quality keyboard, I don't need a new hobby.

My life is a fractal pattern of existential events, mostly existential minor incidents interspersed with existential major incidents, punctuated by the occasional existential crisis, with severity following a measurable power distribution curve.

I'm making some changes to my privacy agreements

How can you level up as a PHP / Laravel focused web developer in a world where software engineering becomes increasingly focused on security? Step 1: Sign up to @valorin.bsky.social's Securing Laravel newsletter. Congrats on an epic 5 years Stephen! Still some of the best content on the topic.

How am I only now hearing about Khurangbin?

The internet used to be full of people pretending to be experts. Now it's full of AIs pretending to be people pretending to be experts.

Found my 160GB iPod classic from 2007. Still works!

I feel like somebody could have warned me that technical leadership would be hard.

Mart is the silliest word.