PHP 7 vs HHVM
First performance production testing of PHP 7 vs HHVM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206341#4750994Looking good so far!#MediaWiki #HHVM #PHP
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New php-excimer profiler
Tim is working on a new profiler for PHP, since there are issues with xhprof/tideways that really aren't worth dealing with...and that we can do better in profiling. He's written up some details on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205059, and there's some initial code in our Gerrit.I've done the initial Debian packaging at https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/php-excimer…
The thumbtack is my face.
The thumbtack is my face.(You can even see my I love Free Software shirt!)
PoolCounter in Debian proper
I posted most of my poolcounter #Debian packaging work: https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/poolcounterThere's one remaining issue with the makefile trying to build poolcounterd twice that should get fixed upstream: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/poolcounter/+/463700
2018-08 MediaWiki security update
The #MediaWiki security update has been pushed to #Debian stable after a few hiccups (thanks Moritz!): https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00232.htmlI also pushed an update for Xenial users to my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~legoktm/+archive/ubuntu/mediawiki-ltsThose packages are for 1.27, which is the older LTS version. 1.31 hit unstable today, so I'll be providing backports for it shortly!…
Trying pytest
I finally had the opportunity to give pytest a real try (I'm porting tests from ruby to Python), and it's amazing! Waaay better than unittest/nosetests. I especially liked the parametrization feature, which I think PHPUnit could probably benefit from. Specifically, I like how I could specify two parameters separately, and…
In the Computer History Museum
I'm in the Computer History Museum (and a bunch of my friends are too)! Life goal: accomplished. ^.^
HTML tidy is gone
One of the projects I've been working on since ~October 2016 is now finally done: we no longer use HTML tidy on Wikimedia sites: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/09/tidy-html5-replacement/
Value in using Linux packages
What's the value in using Linux packages for your software vs installing from git? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/06/msg00097.html explained it really well. The explanation I tell people for MediaWiki is that if you want a wiki that just works and would like to forget about administering it - use the Debian package. If…
Working the polls, redux
Nothing like having someone rush into your precinct at 7:58pm, just in time to vote.Volunteering was a stressful blast once again.
Diversity in IRC channels
Your IRC channel can only be considered diverse once you have members whose nicks start with every letter of the alphabet.
Preview of CoverMe
Preview of a project I've been working on: identifying the most valuable parts of our code to write tests for by sorting test coverage data by number of times the function is called in production.#mediawiki #testcoverage
Age requirements for chatting
So now matrix.org requires you to confirm that you're over 16 before you can use it. I hope this doesn't become the new reality - I got started on IRC a few years before I turned 16. :|I couldn't find any age requirement for freenode (https://freenode.net/policies).Oh, and Slack also requires…
Hanging out with Taylor Swift tonight!
Hanging out with @taylorswift13 tonight! #taylornation #reputation
Parsing PHP in Python
Today I found a legitimate use for https://github.com/danielquinn/python-phpPython's default ConfigParser requires each ini file to have a [section]. PHP doesn't, so to read a PHP-formatted INI file in Python requires some kind of custom parser (maybe it would be possible to extend ConfigParser?), where the python-php project came in handy.…