Jeremy Mikola

seems like a good day to get back into php.

29 Aug

"Cars. Just cars, everywhere. You know they call it a beg button. Sometimes you just gotta roll the dice and cross." -- Jmikola Reporting Live from the Chicago Suburbs 🚶

29 Aug

battle bots but instead of saws and flames it's carefully prompted tight-fives in a free-for-all (some heckling welcome?). anyway, this place is a blast from the past. but the White Castle really does have the best coffee in town.

19 Aug

Fun fact: I drafted most of the original unified test runner spec from a quarantine hotel in Taiwan circa 2020. 😷

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis@emptysqua.re

ISSRE just accepted our paper, "The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages." We describe how we test that MongoDB drivers conform to their specifications, using a custom test language. Check it out, it's only 6 pages: arxiv.org/abs/2608.18039

mongodbsucks.comMongoDB Security & Reliability Concerns

TIL mongodbsucks.com exists and appears to be actively maintained. This is like phpsadness.com in reverse. Also nice to see that both pages render nicely (and quickly) on both mobile and pc.

And thank you @was.tl for our lingering sadness. 🥲

mongodbsucks.comMongoDB Security & Reliability Concerns

TIL mongodbsucks.com exists and appears to be actively maintained. This is like phpsadness.com in reverse. Also nice to see that both pages render nicely (and quickly) on both mobile and pc.

reddit.comFrom the whatstheword community on RedditExplore this post and more from the whatstheword community

I could have asked an LLM how best to word that, but it seemed more fun to do my own research: www.reddit.com/r/whatsthewo...

youtu.beJmikola Reporting Live from the Mövenpick Lobby at Laracon EU 2026YouTube video by Jeremy Mikola

1 Mar

Jmikola Reporting Live from #LaraconEU with @laravelnews.com correspondent @ericlbarnes.com youtu.be/KMxEKck_J20

27 Feb

I think it's high time for companies to start wearing “supply-chain risk" like a badge of honor. Speaks louder than a bunch of company values cooked up by consultants.

27 Feb

Twitter actually made me resort to a taking a screenshot to copy the text back out. Is this what passes for vendor lock-in these days?

13 Feb

That only took eleven years. #opentowork

github.comMark Jeremy Mikola as inactive by alcaeus · Pull Request #1943 · mongodb/mongo-php-driver🫡 😭

13 Feb

Shirley, you can’t be serious. github.com/mongodb/mong...

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Robin Bougie

@robinbougie.bsky.social

25 Jan

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

24 Jan

You can just do your own thing: indieweb.org/different

eieio.gamesFlappy Dird: Flappy Bird inside MacOS Finder · eieio.gamesA version of Flappy Bird that runs entirely inside MacOS Finder. It runs at 4 frames a second! That's a lot of frames!!

23 Jan

You can just make stuff: eieio.games/blog/flappy-...

reddit.comeieino's comment on "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"Explore this conversation and more from the programming community

23 Jan

Came across this via @itseieio.bsky.social’s very human comment in www.reddit.com/r/programmin...

22 Jan

OH: #10gen is a state of mind

8 Dec 2025

There is a version of “you” that only exists after your kid wakes you up from a nightmare at 3:30am. 🛌

youtube.comJmikola Reporting Live from SymfonyCon with a New Elephpant Packing AlgorithmYouTube video by Jeremy Mikola

27 Nov 2025

The MongoDB PHP team created two short videos for #SymfonyCon today. One will be shown on stage this afternoon, but in the meantime here’s an informational clip on optimal packing algorithms for elephpants: youtube.com/shorts/vjqcT...

youtu.beMongoDB SymfonyCon 2025 PromoYouTube video by Jeremy Mikola

27 Nov 2025

And here’s the MongoDB #SymfonyCon promo, direct from the stage to your screen: youtu.be/cAyMAjujllM

7 Nov 2025

OH: “it was Zoom, Montessori preschool” COVID was a weird time.

7 Sept 2025

Jmikola Reporting Live from Michigan 🧦