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Paul

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul

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You might know me from:
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Programming languages:
PHP, C, Go, SQL
Human languages:
English (native), French (A1/A2), Latin (Beginner)
Business / hire me:
https://www.phpdeveloper.org.uk

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · 5d ago

Just had a private Covid vaccination. If anyone in England (and possibly the rest of the UK) is looking to get one, Tesco are cheaper than Boots (£90 vs £98.25), have more pharmacies offering it, and seem to be using Pfizer or Moderna (I've had both in the past from them). You might have to speak to a specific person at the pharmacy as only one knew how bookings worked and only one was qualified to give the vaccine.

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · 6d ago

I got an email this morning notifying me that UKUUG Ltd has now been (voluntarily) struck off at Companies House, bringing an end to over 35 years of conferences and other events.

I have written a goodbye post on my personal blog:

https://www.roguetory.org.uk/archives/2026/03/11/goodbye-ukuug-floss-uk/

#UKUUG

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 06, 2026

Our local market has a mixed attitude towards payment methods.

Some stalls don't take cards. Okay, I can understand you have a monthly fee and a per-transaction fee so maybe not worthwhile.

The ones I don't understand offer card payment but prefer cash because "it's cheaper". But every business bank will charge you for paying in cash, plus the fraud risk lies with you (card payments with chip + PIN generally lie with the bank), you might give the wrong change, theft by employees etc.

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 05, 2026

TIL: The new Masters of the Universe film is slated for release this June. I haven't been excited about a cinematic release for ages but my hopes are high for this one. Cast looks pretty good, although I'm not sure Nicholas Galitzine has the right build for He-Man, and Frank Langella is a tough act to follow as Skeletor.

(I absolutely love the 1987 film, it's corny and cheesy but I gave it 9/10 at film club)

#films #MastersOfTheUniverse

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 05, 2026

I am currently reading the 5th edition of Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, which covers up to NT 5.0 (it was written before Windows 2000 was named). It is very nostalgic and takes me back to a day when things were much simpler, but you also had to have a deeper understanding of the architecture.

Part of the reason for reading it is to possibly write / support legacy C apps for old versions of Windows.

All editions are freely and legally available:

https://www.charlespetzold.com/books/

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 04, 2026

I do find it weird that lots of open source geeks are saying that Windows 12 will result in people potentially moving to Linux. What's far more likely is they'll continue running an unsupported version of Windows 10 or below.

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 04, 2026

Been having a rubbish time with new enquiries recently - 3 big projects didn't go ahead because of the costs - but I did receive another nice compliment on how clear and plain my language is on my How I Work page from a new client with a small project that looks likely to go ahead:

https://www.phpdeveloper.org.uk/how-i-work/

#business #freelance

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 03, 2026

Doing a bit more Rust learning this afternoon. Nowhere near ready to be let loose on real projects, or even to tackle Advent of Code, but it is nice to be learning something for fun rather than for work.

#RustLang

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 03, 2026

Downside to being really keen on writing documentation: Nearly all the documents in Google Drive are owned by me by default as the creator. Not a problem until I wanted to transfer them all to another account, and you can only do one at a time...

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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Paul
@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Mar 02, 2026

I think I have got a working function that will convert a start of month date and an ISO week to the start date of that week, even when week 1 of year X starts in year X-1 (effectively converting calendar years to ISO years, which are nearly always the same, except for the edge cases where they're not).

This should make filtering and ordering *much* easier on a project that works mainly on a weekly basis (scheduling deliveries) but also needs monthly and 'last X weeks' reporting.

#MySQL

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Feb 27, 2026

I find it very amusing that in publishing details of sites it intends to take action against for not complying with the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is providing users with a handy directory of adult sites that you can browse without age assurance or disguising your location.

#OnlineSafetyAct

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Feb 27, 2026

Previous boost on F-Droid directors: If anyone wants to be nominated (though you can also nominate yourself) or helped through the process or get feedback on what you plan to send, you can DM / email me to ask. I haven't been involved in this organisation but I have been a director of a lot of organisations (and am still a director of one).

(I don't think I will stand as the board could do with a bit of diversity that I won't add)

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Feb 26, 2026

The weird thing about being a @latenightlinux@mastodon.social supporter is seeing a toot about an episode that's 'just' been released and thinking 'that sounds familiar', before realised I listened to it a few days ago (supporters get the episodes early).

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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Paul
@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Feb 25, 2026

This week I am reading up on ISO weeks because I need to write an SQL function to convert a date stored as a calendar year, calendar month and ISO week number into the date of the start of that week (yes this is a terrible database design, I can't change it as it's embedded throughout the system).

#SQL

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UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net

UK Whovian, railway & politics geek and event organiser. Freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator. Occasionally gives talks about history (mostly Roman). He/him/Paul Most toots deleted after 3 months Formerly @ pwaring on Fosstodon, this is my new account (you can check my old one to verify this) # NoSearch # NoBot # NoArchive # NoIndex # NoBridge

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@pwaring@social.xk7.net · Feb 20, 2026

Today's hilarious email: Sales pitch from an 'AI Director' who admits that 70% of AI projects fail (the pitch being if we hire them we'd be in the 30% that succeed!)

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