Posts by Chris Kankiewicz
Young Frankenstein reference got me!
You know every time you draw a cartoon you don't need to go to a bar.
Blue themed background based off GNOME 50 default background and the next "GNOME 50"
๐จ We are pleased to announce the release of #GNOME 50. You can read about what our contributors have been working on in
release.gnome.org//50/
We take the chance of this new release to thank our contributors who have made this happen!
Let us know what you think! โค๏ธ
#linux
Interested in what you find. I just purchase replacement rigid pads every now and then.
They're secretly pre-loading Half-Life 3 onto your Steam Deck 500MB at a time.
HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!!!
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND ALWAYS ISSUE MAXIMUM REFUNDS
Had a great time at @theimmersivelounge.bsky.social today, highly recommended!
Welcome to fam, ya'll!
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
(Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.ย
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
I love everything about all of these! Hope the pricing is reasonable.
Thanks! The example was contrived but was there to illustrate the need to call some arbitrary method.
Hey #Laravel people, is this the best way to set default values for Model attributes on object instantiation? Am I missing an obvious alternative solution?
Probably because Halloween is on a Friday this year.
Anyway, the problem turned out to be a bug elsewhere in the code but let this be a cautionary tale that solutions requiring people to remember about it later probably aren't the best solution.
Fast forward a few hours and I'm working to implement the solution when I discover that WE ALREADY IMPLEMENTED THE SOLUTION FOUR YEAR AGO AND FORGOT ABOUT IT.
Today I was on a call with other developers discussing how to fix a problem. A potential solution was proposed that would require us to remember about it and do things a certain way in the future so naturally I asked, "What happens when we make the change and six months from now forget about it?".
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And they sent it, right?
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I โค๏ธ regular expressions!
For those that missed it, I once gave an introductory talk about regex at my local PHP meetup. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsp...
Got something new coming... stay tuned. ๐
Struggling to remember the last time I even needed to use PEAR. ๐ค
This is one of my favorite helper functions I end up adding to many projects I work on (or some variation of this). It makes extracting bits of text from a larger bit of text simple.
Goodbye Google Fonts! In v5.3.0 fonts are now bundled and loaded locally meaning they will work even without an internet connection.
github.com/DirectoryLis...
My friend, your journey has just begun.
@colinodell.com ๐ ๐
Not sure if I've noticed this before but I smiled when I saw it today.