Chris Tankersley 🥑

Watching the FFIX run on GDQ, and _really_ considering picking it up on PC. Looks much nicer than on PSX.

I've been saying this for years, or at least a variation of this. We broke the internet by making it more complex for no ones benefit.

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Why did no one tell me Professional Pillow Fighting was a thing?

My evening

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Current status

One of my new years resolutions was to get in better shape. I've started and stopped many times over the years, but this year have stuck with it the longest.

It's been 75 days of tracking my meals and I'm finishing up the first 9 weeks of working out.

I'm down ~20lbs and feeling better in general.

If you are interested in my gaming and streaming content, head on over to bsky.app/profile/drag... and follow!

YouTube video by dragonmantank Gaming Ranking Up from Bronze to Silver in Magic: The Gathering Arena

Hey, I streamed! I played some Magic: The Gathering Arena and tried to rank up from Bronze to Silver.

Did I succeed?

youtu.be/GNJcFPs7xfI

📺 You can catch me on Twitch every so often as well at www.twitch.tv/dragonmantank

Do you like PHP Conferences? Want to go to php[tek] in Chicago for cheaper than normal?

Early bird pricing ends tonight!

I'll be giving two talks this year, one on API design and another on just how to build better applications.

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I'm just going to leave this here. You can all argue over the syntax.

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YouTube video by Re4per's Game Shop Toads, dinosaurs, and a prisoner's dilemma, OH MY! BUDGET WAR $50 upgraded decks

I've been playing in an #mtg Commander tournament at my local game shop. The newest episode is out, kicking off round 2. This is the start of our $50 round, and while I'm not in this episode (I'm recording my game tonight), check it out!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHK...

I think we are moving away from "simple" APIs, and more complex but better structured and resilient APIs are naturally harder to build.

"I think I'm going to move to Indiana, so the libs can't ruin my children."
"I hope you don't mind winter weather."
"This economy has been ruined since Biden was voted in."

But he will also miss the SF weather, so we agreed on that.

Gotta love awkward rideshare talk.

"So how is Ohio?"
"Oh, it's nice, but it's supposed to rain today after I land."
"It's a good red state. I hope Trump wins, Kamala doesn't know anything about the US economy."
"I do wish the weather was a bit more consistent like here."

Are you at #GithubUniverse? Come stop by our booth!

My workspace for tonight

I think somewhere in the middleware docs it mentions all the middleware is FIFO, but yeah, it’s annoying. It’s also not clear ‘use’ is a middleware stack until lots of reading. Plus some conflict with each other so you sometimes have to reorder stuff to get the expected output.

“security”

Scene from Breaking Bad but it’s about how Walter is PHP.

Me most days

And I find it had to believe that no one pushing it as the term had no idea.

Part 1/5 part series on using MongoDB Atlas and Vonage APIs just landed on the Vonage Developer Blog. Check it out if you want to learn more about what Atlas is or how our APIs work in a full-featured application.

https://developer.vonage.com/en/blog/using-vonage-apis-with-mongodb-atlas-part-1

An interesting question that has always bugged me:

I’ve released a new version of software, why aren’t people upgrading?

I think I found the question I should be asking:

What’s the friction people are experiencing when trying to upgrade?

My new Chrome extension is now published on the Chrome Web store!

All you need is an OpenAI API key, and you can start getting email draft suggestions in your Gmail inbox!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chatgpt-email-reviewer/akgbhlnadiohlfbmonhonbalccijkhhi/related?hl=en

Almost forgot, Happy “Government took all my money” day to those that celebrate it.

From discussions in other social media circles:

Would anyone legit be interested in something along the lines of a book-like thing about:

"Reviving Simplicity: Web Deployment without DevOps Overhead"

Repost and all that jazz. If there was polling support, I'd have "Yes/No/As a blog series" here

Roughly 1/3 of the internet runs on httpd, but it seems like a lot of developers have no idea how to configure it, let alone remember it exists.

Having to explain what FastCGI is or basic httpd directives is something I feel like I’m doing more and more.

*waves*

I'm assuming we do Hello posts here.

Hello!

I mostly talk about #programming (mostly in #PHP but also a lot of #typescript), #dnd, #videogames, and general rants. I'm in #devrel so also expect a lot of conference talk.

Follow along if you are interested in any of that, or say just say hi!