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settler4on PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP

One of the best things of PHP today is the ecosystem. The PSR [0] interfaces let you build your own framework using libraries from the major frameworks or independent libraries seamlessly.

[0] https://www.php-fig.org/psr/

settler4on PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP

And composer!

settler4on PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP

This is a very good resource for PDO: https://phpdelusions.net/pdo

settler4on ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

> import { test } from "https://unpkg.com/deno_testing@0.0.5/testing.ts";

This feels both very pragmatic and frightening at the same time.

settler4on Someone hacked printers worldwide, urging people to subscribe to PewDiePie

Great way to raise awareness. Now use the printers to warn people their IP cameras are exposed too.

settler4on Dot Dot Considered Harmful

Maybe if your experience using a shell is only Window's CMD. I live in the shell. My Linux machines are configured to automatically open a terminal upon login and the first thing I do when I get a new Windows installation is getting bash working on it even if it's not for development.

settler4on Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

Do whatever the one that donates more money to him wants him to do.

settler4on Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

Thanks, I also found this information in the site: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3C2018071822544...

It seems a fresh revenue model after so much the-user-is-the-product models. Here's is to your success!

settler4on Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

This sounds too good to be true. Who's funding this project?

settler4on Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round

The solution is to upgrade the users to know better than to get baited.

settler4on If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video]

And then find a way to run that and so turn it into a programming language?

settler4on Falling in love with Rust

Doesn't the chained version still iterate over all the elements and squares them before taking the first 3 bigger than 5? the second version only goes over the minimum necessary elements and then breaks. How can the first be higher performance?

settler4on The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime with the FBI

You can buy it as a gift... to 300 of your close friends who are incidentally named like you and live in your house.

settler4on Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

At least it's not /r/os

settler4on How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript

It would be nice to have a sectioin with things that work differently in both languages. For example in python `if []:` evaluates to False while in javascript `if ([]) {` evaluates to True.

settler4on SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

Are we broadcasting signals?

settler4on The cyclist behind an anti-cyclist Facebook group

4chans version:

"Ironic shitposting is still shitposting"

settler4on “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

> (a := b)

Will `with` start using this syntax instead of `b as a`: `with open('foo') as a:` == `with a := open('foo'):`?

Update: found my answer on the pep. `with EXPR as VAR` actually calls `EXPR.__enter__()` so it's not the same.