Deployer is yet another tool for deploying PHP projects. It looks to have more similarities with Laravel Envoy and phake, than with Robo.li, of which I am a new and growing fan. But I thought I’d throw it into the mix here, just in case I’ll change my mind in the future.
I came across this nice visualization of “Top 29 books ranked by unique users linking to Amazon in Hacker News comments“.
Amazon product links were extracted and counted from 8.3M comments posted on Hacker News from Oct 2006 to Oct 2015.
Most of these are, not surprisingly, on programming and design. A few are on startups and business. Some are on how to have a good life. Which is a bit weird.
Var Masterpiece is a Google Chrome add-on, which formats PHP var_dump() output into something much more beautiful and useful. You can customize the type colors and a few other things in the extension options, once installed.
In a comment to another post, Andrey sent in a link to this blog post, titled “Never judge a programmer by their commit history”. It’s very similar to something that I wanted to write for quite some time now.
It’s been a very long time since I judged any programmer based on their commit history and I believe if you think you can judge a programmer’s ability by reading his/her code YOU ARE WRONG.
As technical folk, we are often fast to judge an implementation purely on its technical merits, forgetting, that there are other factors often at play. Mehdi Khalili, the author of the post, goes over just some of them, including:
I’ve seen (and done) almost all of these. Business reality and junior devs are the two I’ve come across the most.
