October 26, 2025

Neural Networks in the 1940s

Sometimes everything comes together, like finding out about a bit of history you weren't aware of before. Today I watched this youtube video of a chat with Marc Andressen where it was mentioned how...

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October 26, 2025

Rector - automatic refactoring for PHP applications

Rector is a package that allows you to run automatic refactors on a PHP codebase. You composer require rector/rector and then run ./vendor/bin/rector - the first time it...

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September 26, 2025

Kagi - trying a new search engine

Lots of issues with the model of advertising financed search engines are well known: they incentivized to prioritize advertiser-related features like placing ads at the top of the search. One option...

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July 1, 2025

Laravel Telescope and Pulse - right tool for the job

In the past I used telescope a lot: I even had it behind auth set up on prod and just maybe turned off most of the time. The release of pulse eventually made me look at this more sensibly, putting...

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