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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Apparently, @dependabot.bsky.social is really fragile with YAML-based resources, such as Kubernetes config files. "- image:" is enough to break an entire workflow.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

You don't get to advocate for Open Source Software & tell people who don't politically agree with you not to use your software. If it makes you uncomfortable your software will be used by people & projects you disagree with, don't publish software with a permissive OSS license.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Based on all the posts I’m seeing about people moving from Railway to whatever, there must be a lot of companies with great budgets to be able to afford self hosted solutions and decoupling themselves from IaaS providers.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

AI Mode on Google Search just recommended an abandoned NPM package that hasn't seen an update in 13 years. Just in case you were wondering how my day is going.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Network related CI errors, pull request status showing stale information. Must be time for the daily @github.com service interruption.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If there's one thing I've learned from the OSS Maintainer community on GitHub, it's that nobody hates GitHub more than the people maintaining repos on GitHub.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I ran `gh pr merge ###` and GitHub broke. That's a first.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

DevOps in 2026 means having contingency plans for upstream data centers being struck by explosive devices, apparently.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I let AI knock out some things I’ve been putting off for a while, and neither time did it really do the job well. I still had to do a lot more review and coding myself than I’d have expected for the simple tasks I’d asked to be completed. (1/2)

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

As much as I like @digitalocean.com I can't say I'm a fan of their consistent RTs slamming AWS today. Using a competitor's service issues as a way to market your service leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You know you're having a bad day when the status page starts spitting up 500 errors.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I miss the days I could look at multiple files from @github.com PRs at once.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The way I watch people use Laravel's enum_value() sometimes makes me wish PHP didn't add enums.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I miss the days when I could work on open source code without being forced into having political opinions.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

GitHub stops responding the minute after I push my own release to production. Surely that's just a coincidence.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This week is one of those weeks that reminds me why my OSS contributions have slowed down to (mostly) business needs. I'm too technically apolitical to care enough to want to work a 2nd full time DevOps/SA job just to not use a GitHub-like service.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I missed the news about Microsoft's CoreAI and GitHub being placed under it from the beginning of the year, but with that knowledge in mind, it explains so much about the (questionable) direction GitHub's moving.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Something I will never not be annoyed by as an OSS maintainer is how quickly people will pile on with +1 or "up" comments on issues but heaven forbid anyone do anything to help test or review changes.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

If you can't even be bothered to replace the AI-generated placeholder in your email closing, I'm just going to assume that you and everybody you work with are incompetent at your jobs and should seek new work. Attention to detail matters, folks.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I always get a chuckle about the people who groan about OSS projects not self-hosting all their infrastructure. Not every project has the resources to do it, and not everyone wants to volunteer to be a full-time DevOps person for an underfunded software project.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It's 2025 and there are still OSS projects which will not run their automated tests or static analysis tools if the code style isn't up to snuff. But I'm sure a line not being indented properly is good cause to not run the unit tests to validate a change.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The sooner we see the end of corporate exploitation of open source software (LOL who am I kidding it won't happen), the sooner posts like gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml... stop being a normal thing.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Which of you broke Google Cloud?

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Another day, another waste of time blocking IP addresses from LLM enabled web crawlers. Oh, BTW, Scrapy, it's really a dick move to have a SaaS that doesn't publish an IP list, and also a red flag on how bad your product is.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The more I try to use Laravel's ApplicationBuilder "slim skeleton", the more I get bitten by bugs that it introduced by changing the order of operations for when certain things run.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My GitHub notifications today say that folks don't read past the pinned and/or most recently opened issue.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I would pay good money for a GitHub feature that blocks commits where the message is "wip".

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It only took 6 months for someone to figure out that using negative emoji reactions when someone’s behavior deserves said reactions shouldn’t be a banable offense.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There aren't many things more cringeworthy than the excessive emoji use in AI generated content.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I'm pretty sure there is no PHP SDK I've worked with that is worse about versioning than Twilio.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today's protip for developers, don't store version strings as floating point numbers.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One of the most annoying things about all the AI hype is how much time I spend figuring out what network ranges I need to block because they're all so spammy.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s not a bug for a #PHP #Symfony bundle to be using the token storage on a stateless route, I shouldn’t have to work around upstream fixes because of this misunderstanding.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Interesting choice by Laravel to make github.com/laravel/nigh... an AGPL package instead of MIT…

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Well, at least I’m learning to check out on weekends.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I don’t know which AI service CodeRabbit is using under the hood, but based on an auto-generated PR review comment I just read from it, seems like the service is just full of bad advice thanks to the cutoff dates of all of the models.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I’ve had git commit signing turned on in my global git config for years, so having to fight with PhpStorm’s new signing feature, which also tries to manage it at the repository level and seems to not support global config, is kind of annoying.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Vue’s type coercion on certain form elements will be that thorn in my ass that I’ll never get rid of.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

SQL gen tools that ignore every configuration and directive regarding these critical bits are not production ready: - Not creating write queries (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, etc.) - Applying filters based on a security configuration - Only reading from allowed tables and fields

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

People aren’t going to Mastodon or Bluesky because one of those platforms is generally better than the place we still call Twitter. People are going there because each of those 3 services has their own target user audience and people are finding the one they most fit into.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Someone in one of my feeds shared the W3C CMS trends to hype WordPress’ market share. Ignoring that anomaly in the data for the moment, my key takeaway from those trends is that the ideals of open source and/or the concept of owning your data aren’t enough to win the market.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

275 files changed, 3490 insertions(+), 7516 deletions(-) Not a bad way to go out before a holiday weekend I suppose.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Given everything going on in the #WordPress ecosystem, now’s a really bad time for paid plugins to be adding new telemetry features (even with a user friendly config screen for them). Also, don’t use guilt tripping language on your telemetry config.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

With tags equating to releases in the PHP ecosystem, it’s not surprising everyone thinks the minute a release tag is published in the PHP source repo, it’s been released. Unless I missed something in nearly 15 years working on PHP, the tag being pushed has never meant released.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It’s crazy how in one CMS ecosystem, everyone will groan that if it isn’t part of core, it’s not safe to use & being in core makes it better maintained and more secure (it’s not), yet in another CMS ecosystem, you better be ready to install dozens of plugins for a useful website.

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Michael Babker @mbabker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You can tell which companies really don’t care about their #PHP customers when they can’t even be bothered to start updating their extensions for the next release until months after the stable tag is created.

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