I’m not from the US but I would describe myself a a left leaning centrist. The parties I voted for in the last 5 elections where all center left.

If you map the parties based on left/right and progressive/conservative my vote is definitely center left and high progressive.

The US has a political system that sucks, where you only have 2 real options. A system where multiple parties have to form a coalition gives you the voter many options.

I just found out GUMBIES 7 isn’t backwards compatible with GUMBIES 1.

And yes I know GUMBIES 1 was released in 2013, but still what the actual fuck!

When you pay a company and they provide you with a domain (you choose) and give you a webserver, some disk space, a database etc.

I pay about 30 euros a year for 5 websites. They are all very basic (either some php stuff I made, or WordPress). These websites have very few visitors so the hosting specs don’t really matter. All these websites have a specific domain name, some disk space, and a database.

For this price they offer PHP and MySQL. So it’s not a dedicated server where I’m root and can Install other stuff.

I’m Dutch and use a local Dutch company, I also wanted a .nl tld

I don’t know, maybe it’s because PHP used to be the default web based language? I just buy hosting, I don’t sell it…

I’m not the one you asked, but what I like isn’t really about PHP itself, but the fact that I can get dirt cheap hosting with PHP and MySQL. Every time I want to create a small “app” that makes some manual task easier it’s very useful to create something I can access from the internet.

Python is really useful for stuff like that too, but (in my experience) not as easy and cheap to use as an web app.

For example I go to dinner with some friends every month and we always forget who’s turn it is to choose and book a restaurant. So I just made this PHP page that shows the current and next 2 months with a name. So we always use that to see who’s turn it is.

Exactly, this is how you pay off your mortgage

Why did Linux systems go for capitals in the home folder? It’s actually kind of annoying and takes extra key presses.

…A while later “XDG Base Directory Specification”

How many times did the thought, when do I need to eat the dog cross his mind? Awesome they both made it alive!