Michael Babker
@mbabker.bsky.social
Accumulator of low activity social media accounts. Possibly finding new ways to finalize PHP libraries. Opinions, while my own, generally aren’t popular.
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.
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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.
You know you're having a bad day when the status page starts spitting up 500 errors.
October 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You know you're having a bad day when the status page starts spitting up 500 errors.
I miss the days I could look at multiple files from @github.com PRs at once.
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I miss the days I could look at multiple files from @github.com PRs at once.
The way I watch people use Laravel's enum_value() sometimes makes me wish PHP didn't add enums.
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The way I watch people use Laravel's enum_value() sometimes makes me wish PHP didn't add enums.
I miss the days when I could work on open source code without being forced into having political opinions.
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I miss the days when I could work on open source code without being forced into having political opinions.
GitHub stops responding the minute after I push my own release to production. Surely that's just a coincidence.
August 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
GitHub stops responding the minute after I push my own release to production. Surely that's just a coincidence.
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.
August 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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.
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.
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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.
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.
July 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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.
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.
July 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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.
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.
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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.
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.
June 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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.
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.
June 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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.
Which of you broke Google Cloud?
June 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Which of you broke Google Cloud?
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.
June 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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.
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.
May 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
My GitHub notifications today say that folks don't read past the pinned and/or most recently opened issue.
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My GitHub notifications today say that folks don't read past the pinned and/or most recently opened issue.
I would pay good money for a GitHub feature that blocks commits where the message is "wip".
May 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I would pay good money for a GitHub feature that blocks commits where the message is "wip".
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.
May 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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.
There aren't many things more cringeworthy than the excessive emoji use in AI generated content.
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
There aren't many things more cringeworthy than the excessive emoji use in AI generated content.
I'm pretty sure there is no PHP SDK I've worked with that is worse about versioning than Twilio.
April 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm pretty sure there is no PHP SDK I've worked with that is worse about versioning than Twilio.
Today's protip for developers, don't store version strings as floating point numbers.
March 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today's protip for developers, don't store version strings as floating point numbers.
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.
March 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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.
Interesting choice by Laravel to make github.com/laravel/nigh... an AGPL package instead of MIT…
February 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Interesting choice by Laravel to make github.com/laravel/nigh... an AGPL package instead of MIT…