Brent Shaffer

The better Brent. Software Engineer, PHP advocate at Google, and folk musician @morehazards.

[Brent Shaffer @bshaffer]

@Iamjacksdisgust @KateEmerson88 You broke up with your partner of 17 years on the day she watched her ex husband die?

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@OndrejMirtes This just took my job from 30 minutes down to 1 minute 11 seconds. Incredible.

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"We are charging you this fee in order to pay for the cost of the fee. Because without the fee, how could we possibly pay to process the fee?"
- San Francisco, trying to justify charging me $550 to apply for a short term rental

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@APB_BMORE52 @pauldehnerjr Oh hey a Ravens fan. What a mystery why you actually don't like the Bengals.

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@RideRTD just bought a ticket at 38 / Blake and you had 8 trains cancelled. How can I get a refund?

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@PortolaFestival our friend is missing and they aren't answering the phone. We are thinking maybe he lost his phone and came to your office for help. Is there a number we can call for support?

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@SFBART While I understand the importance of community outreach, it shouldn't cost more than 6K to remove the graffiti from the windows in the 16 Street Mission station which have been there for months.

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@thedailytrolloc Did Gawyn really call Morgase "mum"?

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In case you missed it, Google Cloud Functions is available for PHP 8.1!

https://t.co/uwFolvuGy0

#PHP #GoogleCloudSummit

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@YoRecursero Sure, Ivan! Can you point me to an issue or other resource?

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Hey! It's an RFC for Google's new PHP Client Libraries! A penny for your thoughts, #PHP community?

https://t.co/NrUVtP4sYH

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@JustinBeckwith we would have had a 1:1 today 🥲

Just noticed the subject of your last fairwell email. Well done. Good luck with everything!

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@DazedDucks Beautiful! Proud member of the brood!

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@ZeroDayTrader Glad to have you in the brood! #DazedDucks

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For any users of the Firebase/JWT-PHP library for #PHP, we are cutting a major version this week, and I have a question regarding a potential major change:

How important is it for your decoded payloads to be arrays instead of stdClass?

https://t.co/yTcwhSocsY

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@villendune @AdamDriverFiles Sigh... *rereads the andolite chronicles*

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Announcing PHP for Google Cloud Functions!

We tried our very best to bring #PHP to Cloud Functions in an intuitive and idiomatic way. We really hope you like it!

https://t.co/mZ986Ab7MU

[Fedor Korotkov @fedor]

Removed bunch of boilerplate and was fun to finally use Flows for streaming APIs. Great work @bshaffer and everyone involved! Enjoyed digging into the internals. Looking forward to proper Kotlin support in Protobuf to not deal with builders 😅

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@SMBCComics My friend's math was off by a factor of two today, and when I called him out he said "I was exaggerating!"

... anyway, it sounded like something you'd write.

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@Crell Thanks Larry! I'm hoping somebody will disagree with you though :P

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I would love to get feedback from the #PHP community on whether it's a good idea to support both PHP 8.0 named parameters and options arrays for PHP 7.4 and below?

https://t.co/EEEV9khwZ4