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What about Winter CMS?

Most people wouldn't choose PHP for building a game engine, but Jack did! Here's his story of turning a CMS into a multiplayer game engine. Check out the code, try the demo, and se…

I'm curious, what made you decide to use final classes and private properties in your Client class? I'd recommend taking a look at https://ocramius.github.io/blog/when-to-declare-c…

Down for me, intermittent connection issues to the droplets and the dashboard. First time it's ever impacted any of my sites in the 7+ years of hosting with DO.

You should check out Winter CMS, we're built on top of Laravel and themes are powered by Twig - no heavy PHP code allowed in themes. Instead, complex logic is handled by "Component…

While not perfect, they do meet real world needs in ways that are better than current ICE options. A fully electric truck isn't really a viable option in the market they're buildin…

I've been fascinated watching the progress of Edison Motors ( https://www.edisonmotors.ca/ ), who are making a diesel electric hybrid semi. Their logic and arguments make a lot of …

That's not without its drawbacks however, especially when you consider tools like swoole and laravel octane that keep your application in a long running process, so if you use die …

I'm curious to know what what "reasonably good" meals you're making for less than $3. That would cover pretty close to nothing in Canada. If such meals exist I'd be happy to learn …

Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but the closest modern equivalent might be the various VR games / apps that are centred around socializing with other random peopl…

Not a generic tool as such, but Winter CMS has a INI parser / renderer built into the core: https://wintercms.com/docs/services/parser#ini-parser

Symfony 5.4 just added support for bash completion to PHP CLI commands using the library so we were able to add a very nice and easy to use interface to Winter CMS to take advantag…

I've seen this be used for providing a space to explore 3D scans of an abandoned mining town in California: https://poly.cam/cerro-gordo . I think there's definitely some cool appl…

Sigh, so much for a last minute deploy before recording a progress demo... Darn modern conveniences...

Might depend on where you get your training from but I know for my private pilot's license I was instructed and practiced how to purposely get into spins and recover from them. It'…

Saskatchewan Canada can easily reach -40°C for several weeks during the winter.

Also originally submitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26939729

October 2.0 was based off of the code base as of a year ago, so everything that was added to the project in the past year was removed in 2.0. As far as breaking changes in the 1.0 …

Hey Tony! Not sure who vanilla-almond is, but I'm the Luke Towers that wrote the post and leads the Winter CMS project :) Definitely should grab a bite again, although unfortunatel…

That's because their product sucked, they charged excessive fees, and they were actively hostile to their users.

Personally I'm not all that into the opera, but this article does raise an interesting point about the affect that the pandemic has on the future viability of a lot of different or…