Matthew Exon

Computer Programmer. Traveller.
🇩🇪🇭🇰🇨🇳🇬🇧🇦🇺
He/Him

Public Key

npub1mztu78hw3jg22qcksuw6v3k350tr54xl75pcxds5v0wnau09ksgq30uwz2

NIP-05 Address

mat@friendica-exon-name.mostr.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsd3970rmhgey99qvtgw8dxgmg684362n0l2qurxc2x8hf778jmgyqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsl7r3u8

Publishing to

relay.snort.social

nos.lol

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub1mztu78hw3jg22qcksuw6v3k350tr54xl75pcxds5v0wnau09ksgq30uwz2

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-08-04 11:18:56 UTC

- reply

@nprofile…t566 I've been contributing little bits of code to Friendica for over a decade now (!) and I still have NO IDEA WTF I am doing. My methodology is entirely print and grep. I've never used a proper debugger with PHP in my life. I have test instances running either on a VPS, a local RPi, or a VirtualBox container. I use Emacs and edit remote files with Tramp. So I'd love to hear what real PHP developers do!
(Decades into a software career, and now trying to leave it, I've finally realised that everyone just does print and grep and there's nothing to be ashamed of. It's fine.)

2023-08-08 21:10:53 UTC

- reply

@npub1hmh…satr @npub1kuf…ravy A country that makes you apply for a permit to run an HTTPS server would have no problem making you apply for a permit to run an SSH server. They just can't be bothered. Every time I got away with something, it was tempered with the knowledge that smarter people than me had already decided it wouldn't make any difference.