Category: Programming

A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.

Awful AI – a curated list of the current scary usages of AI

Awful AI :

Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society

Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair, easily susceptible to attacks and notoriously difficult to control. Nevertheless, more and more concerning the uses of AI technology are appearing in the wild. This list aims to track all of them. We hope that Awful AI can be a platform to spur discussion for the development of possible contestational technology (to fight back!).

It’s great that someone is working on raising awareness!

Google Trends for REST, GraphQL and RPC

Here’s an interesting look at Google Trends for REST API, RPC, and GraphQL.  There’s also a link to the actual Google Trends, in case you want to play with it.  For example, here’s how it looks with the addition of the SOAP (as a protocol though, rather than search term which is way too generic):

spatie/data-transfer-object – Data transfer objects with batteries included

spatie/data-transfer-object library provides very easy to use data-transfer objects for PHP.  If you code is relying a lot on arrays, you’ll appreciate this different approach.  And the more complex your arrays are, the more benefit you’ll get out of it.

WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet

“WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet” is a collection of about 10 tips for a more secure WordPress configuration file.  Obviously, not all of them can always be applied, but it’s a good idea to review your own settings once in a while and to disable unnecessary bits.

brick/math – Arbitrary-precision arithmetic library for PHP

PHP is well-known for its rather basic interpretation of precision numbers and operations on those.  BC Match extension helps, but sometimes one needs more.  brick/math is a composer-installable library that helps with arbitrary-precision arithmetic.