According to the Urban Dictionary:
Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck. The anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches.
Anatidaephobia is derived from the Greek word “anatidae”, meaning ducks, geese or swans and “phobos” meaning fear.
A:dude, Anatidaephobia is the coolest phobia ever!
B:quack!
I really liked this picture. Â Don’t know who’s the author, but I found it here. Â And if you want to know how historically accurate it is, here’s the Wikipedia page for you.
I came across this link a while back, but somehow failed to share.  Christoph Niemann, a talented artist with a good sense of humor, illustrates his flight from New York to Berlin.  It’s not a laughing out loud collection of images, but it’ll make you smile.
An API is a user interface for developers. Put the effort in to ensure it’s not just functional but pleasant to use.
Vinay Sahni has a rather lengthy, detailed, and well-rounded post on how to design a good RESTful API. Â It covers pretty much everything from URL structures and parameters, request methods, to error handling, documentation, and coding style.
Jordi Boggiano looks at some common files in PHP packages, using Packagist as a data source. Â There are some interesting metrics in there. Â For example:
- 58% of packages include a src/ directory and 5% a lib/ one. That’s surprisingly low to me, that means a lot have the code simply in the root folder.
- 4% have a bin/ directory, including some sort of CLI executables.
- 55% have a LICENSE file, that’s.. pretty disastrous but hopefully a lot of those that don’t at least indicate in the README and composer.json
- 49% have some file or directory indicating the presence of tests (phpunit.xml & co). I am not sure if this is good or bad news to be honest, that depends on your expectations.