Legacy software modernization, project rescue, architecture, test automation, public speaking. Open for work. I'm mostly on Mastodon: http://phpc.social/@afilinahttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mm5hk2iuec22@fabien.potencier.org Salut, as-tu une option de sponsoring qui n'est pas GitHub?18 May 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5hk2iuec22https://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mjhg77fhd22gHappy Moskva sinking anniversary to those who celebrate!14 Apr 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhg77fhd22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mjelbupbsc2p"The problem isn't that we'll decide to stop thinking. The problem is that we'll barely notice when we do." https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/13 Apr 2026 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjelbupbsc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mizf547eks2tHonestly, all this LLM hype is making me not want to speak at any conferences. When a third of all content is LLM garbage, it makes me question my sanity and lose hope in humanity. That's the inverse of what I hope to get in exchange for donating my time.08 Apr 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mizf547eks2thttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mhyvtbojis2qPHP Foundation Director interview https://phpc.tv/w/5yxazXTYp8mtquXjyMNQ2S27 Mar 2026 00:54 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhyvtbojis2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mho57o4c4c22Blogged: Why I Created phpc.tv afilina.com/why-phpc-tv https://afilina.com/why-phpc-tv22 Mar 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mho57o4c4c22https://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mffcmaejxs23I set up another recurring donation to open source: support.joinpeertube.org/en/ You should too. It's what powers phpc.tv https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/21 Feb 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mffcmaejxs23https://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3mco2ejuucs2jI did a thing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jan 2026 02:10 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mco2ejuucs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3ma5oozrjo22kI'm working on a new PHP workshop. I'm laughing because in 5 minutes, I was able to create an include and nomenclature mess (on purpose) that would make everyone's head hurt. It's not even as bad as what I see in the wild. In case you can make it to Montreal in February: https://confoo.ca/en/2026/session/refactoring-legacy-php-for-maintainability17 Dec 2025 03:08 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma5oozrjo22khttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3m4itiblnjs26We teach about the dangers of too much indirection in code, but when it comes to infrastructure, those lessons seem to be disregarded. If you struggle when reasoning about your infrastructure, it can take your top engineers a day or more to fully resolve a production outage.31 Oct 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4itiblnjs26https://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3m4c2jdvdd22wWhile preparing my talk for SymfonyCon about framework upgrades, I did a deeper research into the history of backward compatibility management. Now I appreciate the effort that the @symfony.com team put into ensuring smooth transitions even more. It's really S tier in my opinion.28 Oct 2025 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4c2jdvdd22whttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3m3zhxniwn22eIn this podcast with fwdays, we talked about mentorship, open source, legacy code, and a few other topics. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=poquW_vYxUs25 Oct 2025 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3zhxniwn22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3m2xbqk4r6s2bAh yes, the Online Safety Act. Like SovietWomble said: "we're just going to disconnect the internet and float off into the Atlantic". It was a random joke 6 years ago. Now it's slowly becoming a reality. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Oct 2025 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2xbqk4r6s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3lyfqlc4zl22rThere we go. 40 years old. I don't feel any different.09 Sep 2025 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfqlc4zl22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3lx5jzngkec2iToday is Ukraine's Independence Day. If you want to contribute, our volunteer recon team, which keeps the invaders away, needs to repair some vehicles. Slava Ukraini! afilina.com/donate/harmata24 Aug 2025 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx5jzngkec2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3ltcmr5swd22qThe is no such thing as software that should only last a few years. That was a harmful myth from the start. There's a prototype, and there's software you plan to use, maintain and expand.06 Jul 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltcmr5swd22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3lt5eid4ncc2gDon't buy Logitech mice. To please shareholders, they enshittified and switched to ultra-cheap components that break after a few months, causing the device to incorrectly double-click. Enough to drive you mad and ruin your work/gameplay. >>04 Jul 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5eid4ncc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3lsyxwtfnck2cI had to turn off all capitalization-related autocorrect in Word. It's just incompatible with technical documents. reCAPTCHA is not an accidental caps lock. GChart is not a typo.02 Jul 2025 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsyxwtfnck2chttps://bsky.app/profile/afilina.bsky.social/post/3lsmhlakzhs2mGoing through a list of PHP dependencies of a legacy project and routinely marking libs as "abandoned in 2008." You know you're doing legacy archaeology when you download zip copies of code via the wayback machine.27 Jun 2025 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:5e2mp6zea5oosuvzhrrgboa4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsmhlakzhs2m