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When refreshing the browser was your entire deployment pipeline in PHP days
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When refreshing the browser was your entire deployment pipeline in PHP days

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The image is a screenshot of a tweet by “I Am Devloper @iamdevloper” dated Dec 2. The tweet text, rendered in white all-caps on a black Twitter interface, reads: “IT WAS JUST A SIMPLER TIME. I COULD OPEN A PHP FILE, START CODING AND REFRESH THE BROWSER TO INSTANTLY SEE CHANGES”. Below the tweet, a blurry cartoon still from Family Guy shows Peter Griffin being rushed on a gurney; his mouth is wide open in panic, one attendant’s face is pixel-blurred on the left, and another attendant pushes from the right. Peter wears a yellow shirt and green pants with a white stripe against a dull hospital background. The juxtaposition humorously dramatizes a developer’s distress over modern build pipelines compared to the effortless “edit-and-refresh” PHP workflow, evoking nostalgia among web engineers who now wrangle transpilers, bundlers, and hot-reload servers

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick 2005: Ctrl-S, F5, coffee. 2025: terraform apply → docker build → push to ECR → helm upgrade → ArgoCD sync → wait for Prometheus SLOs, all to change a typo in alt text. Progress, they said
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    2005: Ctrl-S, F5, coffee. 2025: terraform apply → docker build → push to ECR → helm upgrade → ArgoCD sync → wait for Prometheus SLOs, all to change a typo in alt text. Progress, they said

  2. Anonymous

    Meanwhile, your junior dev just spent 3 days debugging a webpack config issue that turned out to be a missing comma in a JSON file buried 47 layers deep in node_modules - but hey, at least we have tree-shaking now!

  3. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the PHP era - when your entire CI/CD pipeline was Ctrl+S, Alt+Tab, F5. Now we need Docker, Kubernetes, three different config files, a build step that takes longer than the feature implementation, and a PhD in webpack to change a button color. Progress is watching your 'instant feedback' turn into 'compiling... 47 modules transformed' while you contemplate your life choices and wonder if that COBOL job posting is still open

  4. Anonymous

    Modern DX: 12 services, HMR that forgets CSS, and a 30‑second 'npm run dev' - all to emulate what F5 on index.php did deterministically

  5. Anonymous

    PHP's native hot reload: Ctrl+S, F5, done. Modern stacks: Sacrifice node_modules to the bundler gods for 30-second gratification

  6. Anonymous

    PHP era: F5 was CI/CD; today a one-line change needs Docker, Helm, a service mesh quorum, and three cache purges - and Chrome still serves the stale bundle

  7. @kandiesky 3y

    I miss it so much

  8. Deleted Account 3y

    Why can't you do it now?

    1. @executor2077 3y

      why would you open php file in 2022 :)

      1. @trainzman 3y

        Laravel

        1. Deleted Account 3y

          is that some furry-related slang ?

          1. @trainzman 3y

            I wonder if it can be considered Also which language is considered furry-language?

            1. Deleted Account 3y

              anything that sounds like a furry-related thing is furry-language

              1. @trainzman 3y

                Well that's a framework, not a furry-related thing (sadly)

            2. @viktorrozenko 3y

              Rust

              1. @trainzman 3y

                Almost forgot

      2. @Agent1378 3y

        Php is alive and well, maybe even More then before

        1. @RiedleroD 3y

          I wrote my website in php, so I can confirm.

        2. @Saeid025 3y

          Exactly... It still receiving good updates with lots of good changes (if you look at php change log you will notice it's getting so much better with each update...) It's still well and pretty much alive...

      3. @callofvoid0 3y

        its easier than coding a whole new backend

        1. @uberanima 3y

          What is so hard to code a backend?

          1. @callofvoid0 3y

            have you tried writing api with c++ ?

            1. @uberanima 3y

              Who the fuck writes api with c++ for god sake

              1. @callofvoid0 3y

                I tried once

                1. @uberanima 3y

                  This is how people become php developers

                  1. @callofvoid0 3y

                    I tried this after knowing php

                2. @im_ali_pj 3y

                  wtf

                  1. @callofvoid0 3y

                    Socket with regex(for http analyzing) and json

    2. @paul_thunder 3y

      https://youtu.be/TggJiOG9mzc

  9. @deerspangle 3y

    Won't it automatically refresh and show changes with node watch?

  10. @the_mwstr 3y

    hmr ⚡

  11. @trainzman 3y

    tbh i literally do that for my life

  12. @RichStallman 3y

    now virtually every website uses 1000 proprietary Javascript libraries... I have to use a proxy that wgets file content and sends them to me on mail as to not run any propietary software on my machine...

    1. Deleted Account 3y

      touch grass bro

      1. @trainzman 3y

        Touching grass won't make you money silly

        1. Deleted Account 3y

          neither will wgeting html files

    2. @paul_thunder 3y

      Proprietary JavaScript? 🤔

      1. @lord_nani 3y

        Simply — Java script

    3. @Vlasoov 3y

      quit this social network, the server is proprietary

      1. @RiedleroD 3y

        telegram isn't a website, so it doesn't count ;)

        1. Deleted Account 3y

          lol

  13. Deleted Account 3y

    at least touching grass is great for one's health and using wget is not

  14. @Agent1378 3y

    And it's fast and backward compatible enough.

  15. @trainzman 3y

    But that's more of a femboy language

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