“fix previous commit”

Oh, that’s the next excuse i’ll use when a recruiter asks for my github page. “i’m protecting my product”.

America is a weird place, Europe is more balanced in general. Back in 2000 we had more of a 60%-40% split in computer science.

Yep, any non empty string is truthy.

Once I had to fix a website with everything in the same script. Every page, every bit of html with inlne CSS and Javascript, was there in a gigantic sequence of else if, with functions (with embedded business logic) to output the common bits.

I mean, the streets of R’yleh were more navigable than… that.

Most of the hate for php was born back in version 3 or 4, when it was a mess. Also a lot of people who where in college in those years learned php as a first language.

Combine a language that does not enforce good coding practices and a lot of people making their first website, and you get some pretty horrible codebases.

As part of my job is to maintain legacy php websites, I’ve seen lovercraftian nightmares. I love modern php, but I get where all this hate is coming from.