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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

@fabien.potencier.org Salut, as-tu une option de sponsoring qui n'est pas GitHub?

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Happy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate!

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"The problem isn't that we'll decide to stop thinking. The problem is that we'll barely notice when we do." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

ergosphere.blog

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think the bubble needs to pop before these events become bearable again. Every few years there's a new annoying hype, but this time it's so much worse. I have one last commitment for this summer and then I'll be taking a long break.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Honestly, all this LLM hype is making me not want to speak at any conferences. When a third of all content is LLM garbage, it makes me question my sanity and lose hope in humanity. That's the inverse of what I hope to get in exchange for donating my time.

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phpc.tv @phpc-tv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You can now support this site via OpenCollective: opencollective.com/phpcommunity... The same project now supports both phpc.social and phpc.tv

opencollective.com

PHPC Social - Open Collective

Connecting the PHP community on the open social web

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Could have even been a null voidfalse :P

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I set up another recurring donation to open source: support.joinpeertube.org/en/ You should too. It's what powers phpc.tv

support.joinpeertube.org

Support PeerTube

Free software to take back control of your videos

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phpc.tv @phpc-tv.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Day 1 patch notes: - We're now federating! You can follow accounts and channels from Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms. Example search: channel@phpc.tv - Registrations are open! Users will need to wait for approval. We temporarily set a count limit, but if all goes smoothly, we'll lift it.

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Robin Chalas @chalasr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

@afilina.bsky.social Thanks a ton for sponsoring me on GitHub! It is so much appreciated, especially given I know how much you’re already giving to help Ukraine protect itself and Europe 💛 Count on me to transform your support into the best #OSS contributions I can! Merry Christmas 🥂

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I'm working on a new PHP workshop. I'm laughing because in 5 minutes, I was able to create an include and nomenclature mess (on purpose) that would make everyone's head hurt. It's not even as bad as what I see in the wild. In case you can make it to Montreal in February: confoo.ca/en/2026/sess...

confoo.ca

Refactoring Legacy PHP for Maintainability | ConFoo.ca

FullStack Conference for developers February 25-27, 2026 in Montreal, Canada.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Can you post this on Mastodon as well? Only the initial announcement is there, which is all I could boost.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I always wondered how to get rid of it. Did you do something or just got lucky?

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Stefan Priebsch @spriebsch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

What do we miss about PHP without hearing the thinking behind it? Come listen, ask, and learn. codefire-conversations.com

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I've seen this happen a lot. It's not because the engineers weren't good enough. All you need to do is add more complexity than a mind can hold at once, and you get a ticking bomb.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We teach about the dangers of too much indirection in code, but when it comes to infrastructure, those lessons seem to be disregarded. If you struggle when reasoning about your infrastructure, it can take your top engineers a day or more to fully resolve a production outage.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/10/2025

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

While preparing my talk for SymfonyCon about framework upgrades, I did a deeper research into the history of backward compatibility management. Now I appreciate the effort that the @symfony.com team put into ensuring smooth transitions even more. It's really S tier in my opinion.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

In this podcast with fwdays, we talked about mentorship, open source, legacy code, and a few other topics. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=poquW_vYxUs

It's not just code — it's people.
Mentorship, open source & legacy code.
fwdays Tech Talks podcast

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Ah yes, the Online Safety Act. Like SovietWomble said: "we're just going to disconnect the internet and float off into the Atlantic". It was a random joke 6 years ago. Now it's slowly becoming a reality.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

There we go. 40 years old. I don't feel any different.

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Symfony @symfony.com · 28/08/2025

🙌 Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend ➡️ symfony.com/blog/remembering-ryan-w…

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Frédéric Bouchery @bouchery.fr · 27/08/2025

Nébuleuse de l'Iris (NGC 7023), hier soir depuis mon jardin au sud de Rennes. #S50 #Astrophoto (stacking: 33 minutes)

$Une image astronomique en gros plan montre une zone de l'espace sombre et poussiéreuse, parsemée d'un grand nombre d'étoiles brillantes. Au centre se trouve une nébuleuse, un nuage de gaz et de poussière. Elle est illuminée de l'intérieur, avec une lueur blanche intense qui s'estompe vers l'extérieur pour devenir un gris diffus. La forme du nuage est irrégulière et complexe, avec des zones plus denses et d'autres plus vaporeuses. Des filaments de poussière plus foncée s'étendent depuis le centre. Le champ d'étoiles est très dense, et la plupart des étoiles sont de minuscules points blancs, bien que quelques-unes soient plus grandes et plus lumineuses, créant des pics de diffraction en forme de croix. L'image est dominée par les teintes de noir, de gris et de blanc, avec un contraste élevé entre les étoiles lumineuses et l'obscurité de l'arrière-plan.$

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Another from Canada 🇨🇦. Keep 'em coming!

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

First donation is from Poland 🇵🇱

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today is Ukraine's Independence Day. If you want to contribute, our volunteer recon team, which keeps the invaders away, needs to repair some vehicles. Slava Ukraini! afilina.com/donate/harmata

Pick-up truck with an open hood in a repair shop.

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Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta @ocramius.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

This talk is a terrifying dive into how corporate enshittification ("we need an audit trail" anybody?) and the Peter principle are everywhere, punching security holes through the highest levels of a government. youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY

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Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta @ocramius.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

What's a good solution for a fediverse-driven blog comment section? I'm thinking disqus, but fedi-driven 🤔

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The is no such thing as software that should only last a few years. That was a harmful myth from the start. There's a prototype, and there's software you plan to use, maintain and expand.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

They sent me a replacement and now it's also broken after a few months, because the components are still garbage. So if you don't want to create piles of e-waste, buy something more durable. Please post alternatives below.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Don't buy Logitech mice. To please shareholders, they enshittified and switched to ultra-cheap components that break after a few months, causing the device to incorrectly double-click. Enough to drive you mad and ruin your work/gameplay. >>

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I had to turn off all capitalization-related autocorrect in Word. It's just incompatible with technical documents. reCAPTCHA is not an accidental caps lock. GChart is not a typo.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Going through a list of PHP dependencies of a legacy project and routinely marking libs as "abandoned in 2008." You know you're doing legacy archaeology when you download zip copies of code via the wayback machine.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

LOL what?! 15K views on a video of one of my talks, as though Nerdearla didn't already have a huge audience. "Effortless Software Development" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_Q...

youtube.com

Effortless Software Development with Anna Filina at Nerdearla 2023

YouTube video by Nerdearla

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here's what I see on the desktop:

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weaverryan.bsky.social @weaverryan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If you’re in need of a veteran Symfony dev, ping me! I’ve got someone!

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Maybe it's just on the desktop then. Seems to be fine on mobile for me too.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ok is it just me or Ukraine's flag no longer displays in my profile name? It was fine before. Software is hard.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ce commentaire n'était ni constructif, ni nécessaire.

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

They're not quite comparable in that way. Mezzio is minimalist and is meant to not get in the way. Many frameworks today are more opinionated and try to do everything in the framework's own way. I find Mezzio's code to be more testable and portable (not vendor-locked).

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Let me know if you want to move to Mezzio. You'll love it!

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina @afilina.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I worked with Zend Framework since 2007. It eventually became Laminas. Now it's retiring. It was a fun few decades. Mezzio is so much better though, so I agree with this decision. getlaminas.org/blog/2025-06...

getlaminas.org

Laminas Project - Laminas MVC Is Retiring

Laminas MVC Is Retiring

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