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Hennell • Dev

@hennell.dev
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PHP and laravel dev - mostly do more code talk on phpc.social/@hennell but enjoying bsky with my 'normal' account so will see how this goes.

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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 18/08/2026
Is google analytics weird for anyone else? I can't seem to change between website properties... #analytics
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 30/07/2026
I missed that Laravel recently added a native Debounce job attribute! Have some custom logic that would be much nicer with this: laravel.com/docs/13.x/qu... #laravel
laravel.com
Queues | Laravel 13.x - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We've already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 06/07/2026
My sister was asking me over the weekend to help with Apple maps (an app she never uses) taking over all the storage of her phone. It seems it's a known issue for ~4 years with no fix other than wipe phone?!
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 06/07/2026
Ai chatbot support may be quicker, but it's not better.
conversation with an ai chatbot.
it asks if I want step by step instructions on how to do something. 
i say yes.
it says "I'm sorry, I don't know the answer"
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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
One of mine from last week. Martin Scorsese to embrace AI.
Dink cartoon - Martin Scorsese to embrace AI. A yellow New York taxi  with only a passenger in the rear. From the taxi a computer voice says "It looks like you are trying to talk to me. Is that correct?"
Title underneath 'Taxi Driverless'
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 01/06/2026
What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling. All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Instagram account takeover happening.
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 01/06/2026
I made my phone wait 10+ seconds in between shorts/reels etc so I don't get sucked in when someone sends me one. Not sure I'd want to slow the whole phone, but adding a bit of friction to things you want to avoid it works well. Black and white mode also slows my phone use a lot.
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 01/06/2026
Of all the dumb security flaws this has to be one of the dumbest. Just ask the ai to let you in www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-ac...
0xsid.com
The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen | Sid's Blog
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 20/04/2026
I really love when people add info boxes to explain stuff. #ui
A screenshot of an option labeled backscatter. The info box offers the additional information "backscatter"
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irene🏳️‍⚧️ @witcherene.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Software developer with over 14 years experience here: I've made this mistake once too on a test server when I had zero experience and never again This is the kind of thing that someone with actual development experience would catch and prevent before it went live
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 18/04/2026
Feels like this should be against gmails advertising terms.
A sponsored "email" from temu claiming "your package is on its way" with a pill button saying "temu order dispatch"
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 16/04/2026
I come here to get away from broken websites I should be fixing, not to see more errors! #brokenBluesky
Blue sky with server errors meaning my feed won't load
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 07/04/2026
Sure Indy found the Holy Grail, but can he find the all important key document that's "somewhere in a folder on a sharepoint"?
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 24/03/2026
file:///C:/users/fail/with_link.jpg lol@users.post
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 16/03/2026
I've never needed research to get bugs in my code! futurism.com/science-ener...
futurism.com
Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body
A company claims to have simulated the neurons of an adult fruit fly's brain and letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 13/03/2026
New AWS S3 security policy to remove the risk of bucketsquatting 👇 #aws #security onecloudplease.com/blog/buckets...
onecloudplease.com
Bucketsquatting is (Finally) Dead – One Cloud Please
For a decade, I have been working with AWS and third-party security teams to resolve bucketsquatting / bucketsniping issues in AWS S3. Finally, I am happy to say AWS now has a solution to the problem,...
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Brent @stitcher.io · 13/03/2026
The 100M row challenge in PHP is almost coming to an end, and even until the last days, results are improving like CRAZY xheaven.github.io/tempest-100m/
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 06/03/2026
Debugging an issue I looked up data in the prod database using users user_id I remembered from issues last week. Had to confirm on the front end, which took 3 guess then a check on teams as I couldn't remember how to spell the users name... 🤦‍♂️
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 05/03/2026
The bug depends on the users browsers timezone! THE USERS BROWSERS TIMEZONE?!
media.tenor.com
a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words we changed time zones
Alt: The west wing episode where they're in la(?) (It's S4 E1&2 can't remember the title ) but they josh and Toby get lost because timezones aren't consistent. An excellent part of an excellent series
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 04/03/2026
Been upgrading livewire to V4. Love the new name spacing option for separating my components by domain. Not totally happy that seems to mean all the route:: livewire() calls have to link to strings not classnames. #laravel #livewire
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 27/02/2026
My colleague wanted to know what we'd done with a page on the website. Page doesn't exist. I asked where this page linked from planning to fix the url. ChatGPT. Hallucinated information, then cited a page that doesn't exist. Naturally no-one checked it because who double checks an AI? 🙄
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 24/02/2026
You're not really an AI coding company until you're changing programming language to increase "token efficiency"...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Paul Hennell @hennell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The more you look the madder it gets. The years span centuries like a Dr Who reboot, the numbers go down as the line goes up (or vice versa) and the Y axis has two differently nonsensical ranges either side of the graph - neither of which in any way match the values! Perfect Ai chartage - 10/6, 72%
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Wolffen @wolffen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 26/01/2026
Way too much time and effort has gone into trying to understand a sporadic bug from code that shouldn't run by default only to realise the config check was written as config('key_name', 'false') 🤦‍♂️
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 23/01/2026
Having finished the key task in a old project I've decided now is the time to actually fix the flakey tests rather than re-run till it's green. I've got most but there's one with a very low error rate that's starting to make me regret this journey #testing
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 21/01/2026
My feed very quiet about this one - will someone think of the grandparents! www.independent.co.uk/tech/yahoo-d...
independent.co.uk
Yahoo down: Mail and AOL not working in major outage
Yahoo and AOL have gone down, leaving their email clients and other services not working.
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JustHere4Coffee @justhere4coffee.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Welcome to the future...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 14/01/2026
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 12/01/2026
Logged into x for the first time in ages to delete my account(s). Took a moment to marvel at how few posts in the feed were actually people I followed vs suggested nonsense and paid ads. I still miss old twitter, it was so good once.
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 09/01/2026
The problem with refactoring repeated code into a single more testable class, is now you uncover all the hidden errors in the code. A simple refactor yesterday has turned into a day of trying to wrangle where and orWhere clauses to do what we thought it was doing before!
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 05/12/2025
Attached to a machine via VNC. Disabled the wifi. Of the connected machine. Which apparently has no ethernet... Friday going well.
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 02/12/2025
I'm increasingly convinced AI is really 'Chaos Monkey as a Service' #ai
An ai chat (shortened):
User: "did i give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?"
AI: "No, you did not give me permission to do that. This is a critical failure on my part..."
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 18/11/2025
"Anyone know why XYZ isn't wor....." "IT'S CLOUDFLARE"
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 18/11/2025
Even my terminals been hit! #cloudflare
A screenshot of iTerm2 where the release notes cannot be seen because of the clouldflare outage
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 18/11/2025
Is cloudflare down? Is this my day now?
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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This kid rules
Looking for parental controls for a child hacker. Not easy to break FamilyLink or Qustodio, but what?

My son is 11. He's a game-eddictive. If I give him a phone with unlimited access, he'll do nothing but play games. He'll even stop eating and sleeping.

He first hacked Family Link when he was 9. And he found an uncontrolled browser when he was 8. Since then, there has been a constant technological war.

I tried third-party parental control apps, such as Qustodio and others, but he removed them all or bypassed them even faster.

Now, his most common hack is to reboot without the internet and add a second user, where he does whatever he wants until I discover it through Family Link (the Add User option becomes enabled). So I have to check it often. His studies suffer because as soon as I leave for at least 20 minutes, he's already on his phone.

With the help of AI, I realized that I need to install MDM (some device owner system), but Family Link doesn't want to be the Device Owner, and the other apps I found (Google Endpoint Manager, SureMDM, TinyMDM) are all paid.

Maybe I need to install Google Play Services as a Device Owner right after device resetting, then learn how to manually configure policies via ADB? I've already gone through a similar process on a PC when I couldn't get Windows under control (Microsoft Family is even more full of holes), so I had to install Linux and configure a lot of things manually.

The only thing that helps is to give him the phone only when necessary and then take it away and hide it in a safe with a 7-digit code (he's already figured out and opened codes with up to 6 digits). But it's exhausting.

Who else has a little hacker in a family? What do you use?
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Folks, please update your password security. Learn from history. www.worldofmoose.com/products/pas...
Cartoon. A view of castle walls, a drawbridge and a moat to the right of the drawing. Three tiny figures with weapons raised stand guard.  On the left two tiny figures approach on horseback. One is saying:  With luck they won't have bothered to change the default password that came with the castle
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 24/10/2025
In something I probably knew once but never used - you can return a response in a laravel policy. Bools give you a 403, but Response::deny("you can't access this because you are not part of the owning team") is clearer for the user - and then you when they complain they can't see it! #LaravelTip
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 20/10/2025
Devastating real world impacts of the #aws outage:
Headline from BBC news:
"Some Snapchat users say they've lost all their friends"

"Some commentators on the BBC News TikTok account are saying that Snapchat is up and running again - but they've lost all their friends on the app."
(Article by Kirsty Grant)
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 13/10/2025
Loved reading this post about #PHP ’s new URI extension - the amount of work in making it good, secure, and extendible for the future is impressive, but the benefits being extended not only to PHP, but also to upstream projects is quite delightful. thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10...
thephp.foundation
PHP’s New URI Extension: An Open Source Success Story
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
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Conrad 🙂 @shitpost.expert · 12/10/2025
wait was that prod
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 12/10/2025
In notifications: "AWS billing alert (99+)"
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 12/10/2025
All npm packages compromised
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 02/10/2025
I'm CLI fluid. Windows I'm using WSL, Mac I'm using pwsh. Pasting text is a trial and error approach to find the right key combo every time! #cli #wsl #pwsh
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 30/09/2025
This is one of the more thought provoking articles I've read recently - I typically redirect, but maybe the norm should be to reject http api calls so clients have to use https? securinglaravel.com/security-tip...
securinglaravel.com
Security Tip: How Should APIs Respond to HTTP?
[Tip #123] If an API client tries to connect via unencrypted HTTP, what should your API do: redirect to HTTPS, disable HTTP, offer a swift rebuke, or take matters into it's own hands?
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 20/09/2025
As a European heres how to make it work: 1. Just kinda does. Who uses iMessage which is 90% of the problem here? www.androidpolice.com/my-house-is-...
androidpolice.com
I'm Android. She's Apple. Here's how we make it work
You don't have to join their side, or they yours. Android and Apple can coexist in the same home. Here's how
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Paul Hennell @hennell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Has Excel's insane enthusiasm for unhelpful conversion messed up your data? Call complaints on 0.344 8E+10
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Hennell • Dev @hennell.dev · 18/09/2025
I've been trying out ddev on some projects, and I might, maybe, just so slightly be enjoying a docker setup for once. The best part was in the docs where it says it's using docker-composer, but you can "cheerfully ignore" that. ddev.com #webdev
ddev.com
DDEV
Local development environments in seconds. Customize, share, and extend with ease.
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