Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

I’m Ben, a web dev, author, & speaker. I’ve been at this for >20 years, & I’m always eager to help. If you have questions about the Web, FOSS, PHP, or APIs, ask.

I advocate for decentralization, open source, open standards, & the Commons; I believe good UX is the key to mass adoption.

I’m active in the PHP community. I founded Atlanta PHP & co-organize @nashvillephp, & I authored the popular ramsey/uuid library.

I’ve spoken at many conferences. If you see me at one, say “hi.”

#introductions

I'm speaking Thu, 25 Nov at betterCode() Conference to welcome PHP 8.1!

Join me, Anna Filina, Joe Watkins, Thomas Bley, Stefan Priebsch, Arne Blankerts, & Sebastian Bergmann for a great set of talks on modern PHP development. It starts at 09:00 UTC, so grab a ticket & set your clock.

https://php.bettercode.eu

Just playing around.

https://github.com/ramsey/php-museum-exhibits

That's the sound of the wind being sucked out of my sails. 💨

To date, there have been at least 835 PHP RFCs created on the PHP wiki. Not all of these have been brought to the mailing list for discussion or voting. https://github.com/ramsey/php-rfcs

IBM’s ZendCon ‘06 party from ages ago. @pollita is featured between two actors hired as pirates for the party theme. Good times!

I met Pope Francis at the Vatican yesterday and told him, “I’m one of the PHP 8.1 release managers.” To which he replied, “PHP is a fractal of bad design, my son.”

The last beta release of #PHP 8.1.0 (Beta 3) is now available for testing. Check it out, and please help us test it. Submit bugs here: https://bugs.php.net/search.php?limit=30&order_by=id&direction=DESC&cmd=display&status=Open&bug_type=All&phpver=8.1&project=PHP

The first release candidate is scheduled in two weeks for 2 Sep 2021.

https://php.net/archive/2021.php#2021-08-19-1

If you're getting errors building #PHP today due to install-pear-nozlib.phar, never fear. @ashnazg is on the case! A new release of the PEAR installer will be out soon. https://github.com/pear/pear-core/pull/117

Thank you to @shivammathur for catching this and providing a patch!

For background, when building PHP from source, it downloads and runs the PEAR installer, which was where the error was coming from.

And, yes, the PEAR installer is still required if you want to use the `pecl` command. 😁

I released PHP Library Starter Kit version 3.0 today! I'm really proud of this. I hope it empowers you to start making cool PHP libraries and tools.

To get started with it, enter the following:

```
composer create-project ramsey/php-library-starter-kit YOUR-PROJECT-NAME
```

https://poly.work/ramsey/highlights/d69d6f07-8b5e-467c-b726-ecee84681038

@Gargron How often does a Mastodon instance check for link verification of a profile? I've just added the proper "me" rel link, and I'm curious when Mastodon will show the link as being verified.