Category Archives: Chatter
PHP in 2021
A nice write up on PHP’s recent successes: PHP in 2021.
Surprisingly Slow
Some good points here: Surprisingly Slow. I’m thinking about installing zstandard for my PHP… see Better Compression with Zstandard for some numbers.
The Tim Ferriss Show #507 – Adam Gazzaley
The Tim Ferriss Show #506 – Balaji Srinivasan
Ryan Bush – A Guide To Mental Self-Mastery
Today I listened to this podcast episode: Ryan Bush – A Guide To Mental Self-Mastery.
Is Inheritance That Evil?
I found a very long article: Is Inheritance That Evil? I am far too tired to concentrate on it right now. Sorta looked interesting though.
Louvre Collections
This popped up on HN today: Louvre Collections. Pretty awesome.
Cargo Cult Science
Feynman’s old classic turned up in the news again today: Cargo Cult Science.
Reading time as lines-of-code per hour
I was wondering how many lines of code it was possible to read per hour. I found on the Wikipedia code review article the claim: “Code review rates should be between 200 and 400 lines of code per hour.” They say any faster is too fast to find errors. I also found on the Wikipedia article source lines of code that a contemporary Linux kernel has 20 million lines-of-code. So if you didn’t sleep and read code 24×7 you could read the Linux kernel in a little over 5 years…