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on May. 4, 2021
Fig 1. A BusIt's always been the case that there are certain parts of PHP source code that only a few people understand. The Karma system used to help us determine where a contributor could commit code in the source tree; If you had /Zend karma, you had a clue about Zend. Among those people with /Z…
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on May. 1, 2021
My first commit to pthreads was August 28th 2012, while the initial implementation was written rapidly, it had been on my mind daily - because of Java - for maybe a few years. Almost a decade I've spent trying to show that threads in PHP are possible, that despite what everyone says, PHP was an exc…
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on Oct. 11, 2020
Free, as in free beerThis used to heard all the time, before open source licensing became as organized as it is today, these are the words you would find in LIC.txt ...Do you have any idea how much carbon dioxide is produced in the making of any beer ? It might interest you to know that the yeast…
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on Jun. 22, 2020
Before Leonardo da Vinci could create The Mona Lisa, he had to learn to use a paintbrush. As mundane as it seems, there was a day (at least one) when the only things Leonardo could paint wouldn't be worthy of a place on the fridge door.A paintbrush is pretty simple, essentially a stick with some br…
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on Oct. 23, 2019
We can all think of somebody who upon saying the wrong thing, maybe only once, has irreversibly ruined their reputation, possibly even after having apologised for whatever they said. Maybe it's a television presenter, or journalist of another kind, maybe it's not someone in the mainstream media but…
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on Sep. 25, 2019
Fig 1. Some FlossIn general, we initially contribute to open source software for selfish reasons: Perhaps we are interested in some code, or we want or need to fix something, or we just want to write something cool. Whatever the motivation, we imagine that we are going to extract more in benefits…