Ben Ramsey @ramsey@phpc.social

I don’t discuss lots of coding or tech challenges because they don’t interest me. I’m interested in people and using tech to make our world a better place.

As a result, politics are a necessary part of the discussion.

I had contemplated leaving politics out of my feed and trying to stick purely to tech, but that feels disingenuous and also does not help accomplish my goal of trying to make the world a better place.

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

It is proven! I am ramsey on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ramsey/sigchain#34687c1900dc23e8f094e73bf0854df0a4844140ee70c1b67f73ce5d64b671190f

Thank you, @pollita, for opting out of FLoC on PHP dot net! https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/9bc507afae21c9da1c30ee1ab0654fea8150549b

Twitter is down. Hello again, Fediverse! 👋

https://24daysindecember.net/2020/12/21/a-perfect-storm/

Mastonaut needs to provide some feedback that you have indeed boosted something. I keep clicking the “boost” icon multiple times, only to find I’m boosting/unboosting the toot multiple times.

Happy birthday to @derickr on Mastodon!

If you need to chat with someone over the holidays, whether it’s about PHP or anything else, I’ll be hanging out at https://phpc.chat, so feel free to join me there.

According to Spotify, my top song for 2020 was… oh, wait. I don’t use Spotify.

@pollita Did I see somewhere that there’s a #php8 release party today (or sometime soon)?

Daily hospitalized and deaths are sharply increasing. 😢