Jack Miras

Software engineer with reasonable skills on DevOps. I'm also crazy by tech, coffee, music, dogs and guinea pigs.

[Laracasts @laracasts]

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Help take our layout to the next level. 👍

30hrs a week, fully remote, maximum freedom, starts at $8k per month (with 10% pay bump after 90 days), 6 weeks off per year.

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[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

BRAZIL SHOULD TERRIFY YOU

Just a day and a half ago, it seemed like things were calming in Brazil. The Folha de São Paulo, the New York Times of Brazil, editorialized against censorship. The head of the Brazilian Bar Association gave a strong statement in support of freedom of expression. And the President of Brazil’s Supreme Court said the conflict between Brazil and X, formerly known as Twitter, was over. “People talk a big game but don’t act on their words,” he said

All of that has once again changed. Yesterday, Brazil’s President Lula called for criminalizing lying. Given that everybody lies, Lula is proposing to give the government the power to arrest anyone he wants. Thousands of Workers Party activists took to X yesterday to demand that I be arrested for things I said during my testimony before the Brazilian Senate. And today, the head of X in Brazil announced they have quit out fear for their safety.

I am not afraid for myself. As I said on X a few days ago, I fear neither the devil nor de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice rapidly turning himself into Brazil’s dictator. I am taking all necessary precautions to ensure that I can leave Brazil safely and without being arrested. You can help by sharing this video and spreading the word about what is happening here.

And yet, what is happening in Brazil terrifies me nonetheless. I love this country and its people and fear that it is on the cusp of totalitarianism. A significant share of the Left wants to incarcerate their political enemies. Respected Brazilian journalists say with a straight face that the government must engage in mass censorship in order to protect democracy. Brazil is everything that George Orwell feared and worse. The Brazilian government appears to view “1984” not as a dystopia to avoid but rather as a guide to a better future.

I would be less worried if Brazil were small and irrelevant, but it’s not. Brazil is the largest and most important nation in Latin America. Just this week, top Brazilian government representatives were in China talking about how China, one of the most totalitarian nations in the world, is a model for Brazil. Brazil is an inspiration for European totalitarians who have weaponized government intelligence agencies to spread disinformation about their political enemies and are implementing a censorship system to control the entire Internet.

The most terrifying part of all of this is the marriage of psychopathic government leaders like Lula and de Moraes with totalitarian activists and voters. Governments have successfully brainwashed a significant percentage of the population into supporting mass censorship. Young adults raised on social media are today more intolerant than the students in China’s Cultural Revolution in China who denounced their teachers and sent them off to work camps to be tortured.

At the same time, people with a mentality no different from the people who ran the Stasi and the Gestapo are in charge of intelligence agencies in Europe and the United States.

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives renewed legislation that gives the US government the right to spy on Americans suspected of collaborating with foreign governments. The result will be McCarthyism on steroids. The FBI will be able to spy on any American citizen who dares to criticize the war in Ukraine. The US government will label people who oppose endless wars in Eurasia as “political extremists,” ruining their careers, or worse.

During the rise of Communism and fascism in Europe, many Jews and other persecuted people could flee to the United States. Where will we flee if the United States continues down the road to totalitarianism? Not Europe. Not Brazil. Is any country safe in a world where every movement, transaction, and thought is being monitored?

I keep waiting for the downward spiral to hit bottom, and it never does. I am naturally optimistic, but sometimes, that means I have tended toward wishful thinking. Such wishful thinking is dangerous and irresponsible in moments like this one. So, too, is passivity.

We must act. That starts with standing up to the bullies, all of whom are cowards on the inside. Elon Musk stood up to the bully de Moraes last week and appears to be holding strong. Tonight, he will hold a Spaces with the controversial former president of Brazil, whom the Supreme Court has prevented from running for office again for another eight years.

My colleagues and I are building a new free-speech movement. All of the organizations we used to rely upon to defend human rights, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and ACLU, have been taken over by totalitarians demanding censorship. We are gathering in London in June. We are starting our own free-speech NGOs around the world.

We can’t do this alone. Please share this post, consider subscribing to my publication, Public, and make a donation. People are risking their lives to defend free speech for all human beings. You don’t need to risk yours, but we desperately need your help. Things won’t calm down until we stand up to the tyrants and remove every one of them from power.

[Ryan Weaver @weaverryan]

So.... I have incurable brain cancer and I'm asking for your love & support 💖

[Rodrigo Castro ��🔥 @rodrigocastro_o]

Eu, como um ouvinte assíduo do carreira sem fronteiras e @devsfronteiras, tive o enorme prazer de compartilhar detalhes sobre a minha carreira profissional com o @fabriciocarraro, obrigado pela oportunidade!

[Dev Sem Fronteiras @devsfronteiras]

Hoje no @devsfronteiras o @fabriciocarraro falou com o @rodrigocastro_o, que sempre participou de comunidades.

Através de contatos, conseguiu uma vaga de Dev Mobile no interior da Alemanha, e hoje ele nos conta da vida e o mercado longe de Berlim. 🇩🇪

https://t.co/zUrG48fLuy

[Rob Richardson @rob_rich]

https://t.co/2o1x3bmYrr - live #debug #php running in a #Docker #container from inside #VSCode. Great tutorial @JackMiras.

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

Just published two blog posts about:

Python – A guide to AWS integration
https://t.co/M3u7r0EIG6

Python – AWS Secrets Manager: Remote env vars
https://t.co/EmTJuR1MsF

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

One of my latest articles got listed in the #PHP trends #91, check it out!

[PHPTrends @PHPTrendss]

📰👨‍💻 I just published #PHP Trends #91 https://t.co/Rqpjthhnw9 @codexoriginal @professionalw0 @thepracticaldev @JackMiras @timoyesina @dormoshe #dormosheio #php

[Mohamed Said @themsaid]

27 years ago today, PHP was released. Many lives were changed that day.

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@enunomaduro I agree but we still struggle to find good companies with good project here in Brasil, most of the positions are related with Magento or WordPress except the ones from @picpay

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@igorhalfeld É só botar o Docker para rodar que resolve!

[Rodrigo Castro 💙🔥 @rodrigocastro_o]

Inspirado pelo meu amigo @JackMiras, resolvi começar a escrever alguns posts sobre carreira/tech.

Aqui está o meu primeiro post:
https://t.co/YBM7N3NdAd

[DigitalOcean @digitalocean]

🥳 DigitalOcean 🤝 @CSS 💙 https://t.co/yAWp7nhZ0S

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@JoseMiguelQ @sseraphini Eu costumo implementar interfaces para classes que tem comportamentos/métodos idênticos mas que quero implementações completamente diferentes, do contrário costumo usar herança com sobrescrito de métodos.

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@JoseMiguelQ @sseraphini Interfaces são blueprints para classes, quando implementadas fazem com que a classe tenha as funcionalidades declaradas na interface formalizadas já que agora elas não são mais apenas definições de comportamento/método.

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@leocavalcante @ThePracticalDev @DorMoshe I've just republished this article into a serie... Part 1 and 2 has been published part 3 and 4 will be published in the coming weeks!
https://t.co/mbDTWu1ys3

[DEV Community @ThePracticalDev]

An exception is an event that occurs during the execution of a program that disrupts the normal flow of instructions. PHP uses exceptions to handle errors and other exceptional events.

{ author: @JackMiras } #DEVCommunity
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[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@ttdaanye @sseraphini Temos 3

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@sseraphini Quality in the front-end is not the same as in the backend and the tools and processes may differ; Hence defining what quality is one of the things to ensure the presence of it

[Jack Miras @JackMiras]

@sseraphini Defining what is quality in the context of the project