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Dependency Injection in Modern and Legacy PHP A decade or two on, Tom Butler’s (Tom B Zombie) DICE remains the smallest, quickest, easiest and arguably fastest amongst all small to mid to large projects — reportedly compilation of Symfony, PHP-DI or others finally bests DICE, but projects ‘huge enough’ to matter are uncommon. Here’s the … Read more
Lenny Interviews Nick Hurley VP of ChatGPT Right tech, right time. You won’t know what to polish until you ship. Over 700 million active weekly users (10% of humanity). Billions in income. First major podcast interview. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-chatgpt-nick-turley In ChatGPT, the “GPT” stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. So “ChatGPT” basically means: a chat system built on … Read more
What caused the incredible slow-down of NetSuite that had previously run at Barely Tolerable Speed (ie, 5 seconds per page load) Of course nothing else ‘on our end’ had changed. The dataset size was not even into the hundreds-of-thousands of rows. Business operation 1-10 employees. Not all workloads belong in a giant datacenter 1,000 miles … Read more
Timeline of General Browser Consistency, Stability Coding to the Future; Quirking to the Past When web browsers became “stable” in the sense that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript behaved consistently enough across the major players (and quirks like “multiple classes not working” basically disappeared), that transition happened gradually, but there’s a clear inflection point. Timeline of … Read more
SEO 4 AI If you want AI to show your content, you need to be seen as the go-to expert in your space. That means creating a lot of helpful content that covers your main topics and the smaller questions people ask around them. Think of your website like a library. The more complete it … Read more
SANDi Microsoft predecessor to Siri Alexa etc SANDI (Speech Application Natural Dialog Interface) was an early 2000s voice-driven platform developed by Microsoft, primarily aimed at enabling voice applications over the telephone network. It was part of Microsoft’s broader effort to integrate speech recognition and natural language processing into mainstream computing, and was tied closely to … Read more
Simple Good CAPTCHA for WP WPBRUISER WPBruiser (formerly “Goodbye Captcha”) is a non-CAPTCHA anti-spam plugin for WordPress that works by detecting bots before they can submit spam — without requiring any user interaction (like solving CAPTCHAs). It’s designed to stop spam on: 🔍 How WPBruiser Works WPBruiser uses a JavaScript-based behavioral analysis approach. Here’s what … Read more
EFF LetsEncrypt SSL Cert Trojan Horse Google requires HTTPS encryption for websites to be eligible for inclusion in google indexes. EFF LetsEncrypt currently offers “free” SSL certificates. Might technocratic forces conceivably force EFF to gather website owner identification and ultimately authorization? Is a potential Trojan Horse trap being slowly readied? Evidence and default consensus does … Read more
Cookie Monster – Nonexistent Privacy Online, Osana Cookie Insano and Ilk Yes, the “They” have created yet another monster: Boundless privacy laws and cookie conundrums. Regard Their insanity — entire websites and online services tending to (and attempting profit from) the already boundless laws and verbiage about “privacy” and “cookies” and “consent”. Meanwhile, there is … Read more
How to ask AI for help that is tested verified known-good help …or at least as “knowngood” as can be without testing in a live lab environ. PROMPT is there a way i can make you go thru every step quickly and verify it all works before you run me around? RESPONSE Yes — but … Read more