October 2026

Happy Halloween! What an incredibly busy month. On top of work being extremely busy — with some great results — I got a lot done outside of work as well. Midterm elections in the US are on this upcoming Tuesday; please vote if you’re able to! projects the PHPocalypse, and other vulnerabilities As many of you are aware, a large number of security vulnerabilities across the web were announced last week. This ended up being quite a bit of a pain for me, someone who has been building things for the web for close to two decades. Though I don’t reach for PHP or frameworks built on PHP anymore, I had quite a few services/apps/websites running that have been happily trucking along, rarely needing a nudge in the right direction. My strategy for this was essentially a scramble where I shut down everything that was running on bespoke infrastructure. On top of a few minor updates across quite a few active projects, many of my standalone pages that weren’t really getting any traffic are now gone,…