Theodore Brown

I build clean, efficient software with PHP, SQL, and TypeScript. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea".

I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.

[M1 @M1Astra]

Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible watermarks in all generated text, everywhere Claude is offered.

The watermark is part of the text, it isn't metadata: "it will travel with the text when it's copied and pasted elsewhere, and may persist through some editing."

This starts with models launched on or after August 2, 2026, under an EU AI Act code Anthropic signed. Anthropic is still working on adding it to current models. The rollout is worldwide.

[markus staab | @[email protected] @markusstaab]

Anyone out there with a open source codebase, running #phpstan in CI takes more than 5 minutes?

I would love looking into what makes it slow for you

Send me a link to your CI logs

RT

[Larry Sanger @lsanger]

Wikipedia's ex-founder here. Four consequential policy discussions are happening on Wikipedia right now. Three of them would empower mainstream media to control what the encyclopedia says, and more importantly, what it doesn't say. A thread. 🧵 👇

[Amy Peikoff @AmyPeikoff]

At Law & Liberty: “The Eleven-Inch Foot,” about Congress’s (lack of) authority to regulate clock settings away from mean solar noon

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[Ondřej Mirtes @OndrejMirtes]

Announcing PHPStan Turbo! Native PHP extension (PHP 8.3+) written in C++ that makes running PHPStan 10-30 % faster.

The best part: If you update to PHPStan 2.2.6, you get it automatically. It ships with pre-built binaries for all the usual combos of OS:architecture:PHP.

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

Daylight Saving Time is unnatural. Life follows the sun. Standard Time aligns better to the sun. Ditch DST!

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

popopver="hint" landed in Firefox 153. Here's how it differs from regular popovers: https://t.co/ViZ2PKBlGa

[Graham Campbell 🐘 @GrahamJCampbell]

A huge day! Guzzle 8.0 has just been released with support for persistent connections that live across PHP-FPM requests, support for HTTP/3, an improved exception hierarchy, more consistency across the handlers, and security hardening to reduce foot-guns. https://t.co/uN2lB99GTe

[Tideways Profiler @tideways]

`array_map()` gets faster in PHP 8.6

Thanks to an engine optimization, `array_map()` calls using first-class callables as callback are now automatically optimized into `foreach` loops, improving performance by 10% in synthetic benchmarks.

Read our post:
https://t.co/CGTGItJRjY

[TypeScript @typescript]

📣 The moment is here. 📣

TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣

https://t.co/D7Mbq7vWpy

[Shanon Jackson @Shanshrew]

1 Year of Research coming to an end. 8 Months seeing no results, Almost quitting twice. November/December of last year finally seeing a very narrow path to a universal 2x perf improvement on every modern JS parser which would take me another 4 months to build.

This will land in oxc_parser fairly soon speeding up OXLint, OXFmt, Vite, Rolldown, Deno (oxc consumer) almost immediately.

In the long term it's likely that it will land in V8/SpiderMonkey/Bun/JavascriptCore/Typescript/+ Every other JS parser implementation

The wins come from a few key elements, obviously 1 novel "SIMD For Context Sensitive Languages" the other key elements take it from a 20% win e2e to a 80-200% win (99% of files will see a 80-100% perf improvement).

These key elements translate to any AST design and thus will speed up not only all JS tooling but every major browser when complete.

[Packagist @packagist]

📌 Stable versions on Packagist are now immutable. Once published, the commit a version points to can no longer change. Retags are blocked, deletions are tracked with a reason and recoverable, and everything is recorded on the public transparency log.
#php #phpc #composerphp

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Australia's teen social media ban is a total failure.

85% of 12-15 year olds still online after 3 months.

Kids beat it with drawn mustaches and borrowed accounts.

Guess the govt's genius fix? Double the fines and expand face-scanning surveillance.

They're not protecting kids. They're building a biometric police state.

And the rest of the world is, unfortunately, taking notes.

https://t.co/oK0DB5OZQU

[Ilia @iliaa]

I was about to argue against the RFC to deprecate PHP's metaphone(). Then I read it and changed my mind.

metaphone() is the oldest, least accurate version of an idea that kept improving for 30 years. English-only, one key. It should go. The replacement the RFC reaches for is the wrong one, though.

If you match names in PHP, what are you using today?

https://t.co/DTJIQndq78

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Rental car is new, expensive, and utterly undriveable.
Main problem is the aggressive notification to take a break with a coffee emoji and five loud beeps. It is triggered if you drive too close to the line or veer even slightly outside the perfect center, like threading a needle constantly.
So it screams at you for even the slightest venial sin -- providing more moral exhortations than a puritan preacher in 17th century Plymouth. This happened every ten minutes or so on a 2.5 hour drive. Makes one insane. If I drank all the coffee they had suggested, I would have been hospitalized.
Meanwhile anything you want to do -- turn on the radio, change the temp, change the station whatever -- comes with a text warning not to be distracted and a terms of use approval, as if this is not distracting in itself. I'm certain the rental is somehow linked to the Internet so you get the sense that you are not driving at all. Paradoxically, it all feels extremely unsafe and it is impossible to relax. Horrid!
The one time someone snuck into my blindspot going 80 -- now way to see this because this SUV has the outward visibility of a tank -- the magic seeing eyes did not notice. It is more interesting in correcting that helping me. What a miserable experience.
It's odd because the US went all in with cars after WW2 at the expense of passenger trains on grounds that cars offer individual freedom. These new cars do NOT offer individual freedom. They are hectoring, surveilling, prisons on wheels. By constantly registering distrust in you as the driver, they deprecate volition and hence make driving less safe than ever.

[Theodore Brown @theodorejb]

@JesseDornfeld @lsanger Kurios (Lord, Master, or Sir) is also used of finite humans like Pilate (Matthew 27:63) and Abraham (1 Peter 3:6). Theos can be used in a specific sense to refer to one person (the Father), or to refer to God's divine nature equally possessed by His Son (John 1:1).

[DoctorRay @DrNoMask]

"The Historical Rhyme of Ruin
Cocaine Cocktails, Cigarettes in Clinic, and Endless Vaccines — How Medicine Keeps Marching into the Same Trap While Calling It Progress"

Dr. Peter McCullough

full presentation below
https://t.co/UyMNuy8HOp

[Vite ⚡ @vite_js]

🚀 Vite 8.1 is out

⚡ Experimental Full Bundle Mode: ~15x faster dev server startup & ~10x faster full reloads on large apps
🧩 Chunk Import Map to keep chunks stable & improve caching
🦀 WASM ESM integration
💡 Lightning CSS on the road to default
👀 and more!

Blog post below.