Alex Farran

Ape-descended life form. Knows where his towel is.

[StudiocanalUK @StudiocanalUK]

Remembering the brilliant Marjane Satrapi, the extraordinary artist and filmmaker behind Persepolis.

Through this deeply personal and powerful film, she gave audiences a story of identity, freedom, exile and resistance that continues to resonate across the world.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@anon_opin Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@TheCinesthetic The Detectorists

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@nicksdot @TheCelavi @coderabbi Thanks. The PHPStan error message example illustrates your point very well. Adding generics to PHP will allow complex nested type definitions. In these cases, unless type aliases or some other abstraction mechanism is also added, PHPDoc would be more readable.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@nicksdot @coderabbi There is a threshold of complexity for most things where it should become its own entity. That's why we break code down into classes and functions. The array shapes in your example should not be inline, and preferably have a completely separate definition from the method.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@nicksdot @coderabbi I feel like array shapes are quite a PHP-specific thing due to it never having had a struct type and it's use of hashes everywhere instead. I try to keep them at the edges rather than the core of my code.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@coderabbi @nicksdot And the return type on its own line. That would fix it.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@nicksdot ... Adding new features in the PHPDoc block is a good way to experiment and see what works. I don't think making some syntax inline precludes improving how PHP works with PHPDoc.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@nicksdot Well the history of PHP has seen the progression of features from PHPDoc annotations to inline syntax. I find the inline syntax generally more readable, because information is right where it applies without having to look up the identifier. ...

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@nicksdot The equivalent PHP with generics would look something like this. I don't feel overburdened by this notation. It's concise, there's no repetition, and type info is right where it's used.

You can write very complicated type signatures, but that's a problem wherever you write them

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot the 6 creatures hidden in the picture?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@FilmUpdates I thought they only planned for two seasons anyway. Who was expecting a third?

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@JMaliaMiranda @ATRightMovies Sounds a bit like WandaVision

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

I was happily listening to Project Hail Mary on @SpotifyUK this morning when they suddenly dropped it from their catalogue. Rude!

Found it on @audibleuk and carried on where I left off.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@ATRightMovies I love them all, but The Worlds End is the one I like to come back to. The final confrontation of two, no three, drunk men with The Network always has me cheering them on.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

@jenny2x4 I didn't like 28 years at all. A real disappointment after the first two films. I don't think I'll waste more of my time on part two.

[Vicky ✨ @vickyinatutu]

It’s a shame this is an April Fools cos you actually couldn’t take my money fast enough.

[Sean Coleman @colemandesign]

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵
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[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Wondering if the hearts of those frustrated by small acts of petty symbolism, by the feeling that smashed windows and graffiti on bakeries are simply not enough, are cheered by the upgrade to burning ambulances this morning.

[Alex Farran @alexfarran]

Feeling like an antique myself now