Michael Thomas

New post: How I monitor my docker compose stacks using Grafana: https://blog.thms.uk/2026/10/docker-compose-updates-prometheus/?utm_source=mastodon #grafana #docker #SelfHosting

TIL there is a `/r/GermanHumor` sub reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GermanHumor/ 😂

How annoying. I need to get a new passport for the kids. They have exactly two appointments available at the embassy in London. And when I say ‘exactly 2' I don't mean '2 appointments this week' or '2 appointments in November'. I really mean 'exactly 2’. That's ridiculous!

When I (🇩🇪) got engaged to my now-wife (🇪🇬) some people warned me to expect ‘cultural differences’. Being naive I dismissed this as largely racist. Turns out it’s very real: on the rare occasion that I treat myself to a currywurst she thinks I’m absolutely mad and is considering divorce 😂

If you're looking for the most detailed AND *entertaining* way to read about the php2shell bugs, the Calif post is epic: https://calif.io/php2shell/

One thing that I'm less clear on with regards to the PHP security update: As far as I can see many repos have already updated, and the source is of course out for about 2 hours now, but the official docker images are still not up. From my understanding this is because - with some vague […]

Now that the dust has settled for me (except for my personal / hobby projects still down waiting for the frankenphp re-build) I want to say a huge thank you to everyone working on #php for fixing these issues, and for the comms around it! Also impressed to see that your server stayed up during […]

> “On October 21st at 07:41 UTC, more than six hours before the coordinated release, Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images containing the fix. Like other distributors, Chainguard had received the patch in advance so its users could update the moment the […]

LOL. I guess everyone is re-building their #PHP related packages 😂

Man the PHP tag is busy today! I have just un-followed it for today - can’t keep up with that feed 😂

It's not every day my job gets a mention on the BBC front page 😁 Think I could've done without it. But also glad my (non-technical) boss heard my plans from me before he heard from the beeb that I should have plans 💪 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly0lg3w5x2o #php

@thephpf #php https://phpc.social/@thephpf/117478036935385696

Well, there goes my hope for a quiet Wednesday…

Yay. Another brexit benefit 🙄

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

TIL that in England the name St John is typically pronounced ‘sinjin’. What a weird language…

And I’ve finally had enough. Both mstdn.plus and masto.nu are now ‘limited’ on my instance. #mastoAdmin

Man, as someone who's married to an Egyptian, forms that require a surname drive me nuts. I'm sometime tempted to write ’N/A’ - but then these sort of forms don't usually accept slashes in the names either …

Ah #Laravel, why would you include a breaking change in a minor release? https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/61475

I actually really enjoyed reading this! #php

I’m really enjoying my #Forgejo instance these days: near enough 100% uptime, super fast response times. Reliable CI/CD via Actions. Everything just works. All the time. Amazing! #SelfHosting

Huh. I had been considering moving from 1Password to bitwarden. Might need to slow down on that …

I do have to say that the combination of #Renovate, #Docker, a good test suite, and some AI is amazing for a sole maintainer of a minor project: I get automated PRs for all dependencies, and if tests fail I can ask Claude to help me figure out the cause and suggest solutions. This means that […]

This is how you know you have become a proper Englishman: It's raining and I'm _actually_ (kinda) happy about it!

Pro tip for any spies among my followers: Don’t get caught up in unrelated kidnappings 👍

Anyone know what’s happening with glitch-soc? First time there is more than a very short delay between an upstream release and a glitch one. #mastoAdmin

Okay, Silly mastodon spammers targeting Eugen is just amazing 😂

Wife is finally getting her Shopify store finished. And when I say she’s getting it finished it does of course mean she’s telling me to finish it up 😁 Time to learn liquid I guess. Here’s to hoping messing with Shopify themes isn’t as soul-destroying as messing with Wordpress themes. I may or […]

Hey @readeck , quick question: have you considered allowing sharing a link to an article without expiry (or with a configurable, longer expiry)? E.g. I would like to share something I read with the OH, but she'll likely not get around to reading it until later this week, which means I'll have […]

I was reminded today how, when I was approaching the end of my master’s degree, I was fantasising about a future time without exams and thesis writing a time where I’d just work. How much free time I’d have. A wife, three kids, a house, a garden, and a dog later I can hardly remember how stress […]

Just realised that #kagi translate is now essentially a paid for product, that’s not even included in the Kagi subscription. That’s a shame! https://blog.kagi.com/translate-is-back

Just relesed v8.2.1 of FediFetcher. This is a very small release that only fixes a bug in fetching replies for PeerTube videos, so you should definitely update if you are using FediFetcher: https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v8.2.1 #FediFetcher

Can’t fault the maths here 😂

LOL. Looking at the storage on my macbook today, and now I do have to ask: Why on earth would Word, Outlook, and Excel need 2.5 GB each?! That's ridiculous even in 2026 😂

Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

#mastoadmin #mastohelp Sincethey released the feature, I saved alternate text for my avatar and banner profile. But is there any client/ interface that show those informations to people ? #mastodon #fedivers

My eldest just sleep walked into the living room trying to get ready for school (it’s 10 pm here). Man that’s scary! Especially if I think what might have happened had we not benn there and guided him back into bed. Would he have left the house? 😱

RE: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/117292962026690858 I was wondering what that recent security update was about. Guess now I know … #MastoAdmin

You can now embed social posts in @recollect notes from: ◾ @Mastodon ◾ @pixelfed ◾ @loops ◾ @peertube ◾ @Flipboard #Fediverse #PWA #IndieDev

Well, colour me shocked 🙄 https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/17/ofcom-discovers-issuing-online-safety-act-fines-is-easier-than-collecting-them/5297110

Making real progress on laravel-activitypub, a batteries included ActivityPub package for laravel. This will replace federation logic in @pixelfed and @joinloops and make it really easy to implement AP in your own laravel apps! #laravel #activityPub

Enjoyed reading this: https://oussama-mater.tech/laravel-queue-gotchas/ #Laravel

Being playing around with #ecosia for a bit, and it’s weird: I either leave safe search on, in which case it filters aggressively. Or I turn it off, in which case almost every image search for a person (especially female) is full of nude images. No middle ground. 🤷‍♂️

The amount of spam in my timeline recently is absurd. so much of this “buy verified paypal/revolut/whatever accounts” nonsense. And almost all from mstdn.plus or masto.nu. FWIW, their admins tend to respond really really quickly to reports, but I'm still really tempted to suspend those two […]

My little kid is about to grow up 😢