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Jim Winstead

@jimw@mefi.social
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A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

186 Followers
132 Following
26 Posts
Joined December 01, 2022
blog:
https://trainedmonkey.com
github:
https://github.com/jimwins
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimwinstead/
personal site:
https://jimwinstead.fyi

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jul 29, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@emd/117003166201654599 Not really my community (although it almost was), but the Laravel leadership always gave me car-dealership-owner vibes, so an embrace of DHH is not surprising.
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Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦 @emd@cosocial.ca
Enjoying see old friends and meeting new people at #laraconus, but very disappointed that Taylor is proud to announce that he & DHH will be sharing a stage soon. And getting huge applause for that. We can do better folks!
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jul 03, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Someone used my Linode referral code to sign up, which means I got a $25 credit, which would have been nice if I hadn't stopped using Linode two years ago.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 30, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

I came to this very late for someone who moved to #DTLA over 20 years ago in part due to Grand Central Market, but the tacos at Tacos Tumbras a Tomas are an incredible value. $5 for a taco that is a meal by itself. https://grandcentralmarket.com/vendor/tacos-tumbras-a-tomas/

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 28, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Trying to come up with side hustle that I could work 10-12/hours month to pay for medical bills and the occasional Dodgers tickets. I guess here's an Upwork profile for now. https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01be060a532ece41c9

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 22, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Just noticed that blo.gs is no longer online, now it just redirects to wordpress.org. Another dead link in my résumé.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 21, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Here for opening night at the #HollywoodBowl, Broadway Night. We were so aggressively on time that we were the first people up to our level of seating.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 17, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Trimmed my beard, got a haircut, didn’t magically fix my life. Oh well, at least now my face itches and my head is cold.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 07, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

It’s not every day that you see a Black woman with a swastika tattoo, but Los Angeles is a rich tapestry.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jun 05, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Looks like I have a fan. #PHP

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 21, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @ilia@phpc.social
@ilia@phpc.social As others have pointed out, pmj insisted that the political reasoning be made explicit. (I won’t speculate on why he seems to think I was ever ashamed of my very political stance on this.) The tell is that your vote on the principle that politics should not have been mentioned is to pick the “no” side in the politics of it. The “abstain” option was right there.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 21, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @denniskoch@phpc.social
@denniskoch@phpc.social I can’t remember if it was March or another month, but one of the line items on the invoice was about writing documentation. Which is strange, because the applications for the PHP foundation positions has always said that working on documentation is something they don’t consider. It doesn’t seem like they ever announced the slate of core developers for 2026 and what they’d be working on, which I thought was something they used to do. Anyway, probably nothing to worry about.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 21, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @jimw@mefi.social
And in two weeks, this vote will be over and I can choose to ignore any related issues for as long as I want because, as a straight white man, I can act like politics don’t exist at any time without much trouble. I mean, I could be cutting myself off from the contributions of the people those politics do impact, but that’s really just the status quo, so I can claim it’s not a political choice to stay that way.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 21, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

New morning routine: check how many white men have voted to keep a link to a dead account on a transphobic white supremacist’s website on the homepage for PHP.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 18, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

RE: @lproven@social.vivaldi.net

I think about this sort of thing all the time, particularly in wondering about how small of a Linux environment I could put together. I am sure most of that is just chasing old highs.

But I have no space in my life for computer-related hobbies right now.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 18, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

I have some questions about how this turned out.

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/09/25/joe-watkins/

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 16, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Oh no, I’m being subjected to withering sarcasm, how will I get through my day.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 08, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net Elon when Claude disrespects him:
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 06, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

Watching a staging deployment script run all of our #Django migrations and thinking it’s probably time to learn how to squash them.

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Apr 12, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @ocramius@mastodon.social
@ocramius@mastodon.social Depending on how the voting goes, of course.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Apr 07, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social

We just opened the job listing for another mid/sr. full-stack engineer at the startup where I'm the director of engineering. It's a hybrid position, so you'll need to be able to come into the office in Santa Monica at least three days per week. Tech stack is Next.js and Python/Django.

https://jobs.lever.co/athletetoathlete/f4e4d6e8-acbb-45e7-94bb-5d9bedbc565d

#GetFediHired

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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Apr 06, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social
@dirtyoldtown@mefi.social No worries, thanks for the pointers. Glad to hear you're doing and feeling better!
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Apr 04, 2026
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @dirtyoldtown@mefi.social
@dirtyoldtown@mefi.social Any resources you’d recommend to help understand autistic burnout better?
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 01, 2024
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @jimw@mefi.social
@polotek@social.polotek.net I think having come from this world of releasing software as a physical product makes my experience with estimating and deadlines abnormal in an era dominated by engineers who have come of age releasing online.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · May 01, 2024
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @polotek@social.polotek.net
@polotek@social.polotek.net I think I learned the theory of different models of software development in college (early 90s, so pre-agile) and estimation was probably part of those. My first job out of college was for an educational/games company (CD-ROM releases!) and they definitely put a lot of effort into generating estimates and deriving deadlines from those. I can’t put a finger on how I learned to do it or how well I did it, but as I got promoted to team lead on a project it was certainly part of what I did. There was an expectation that we would get better at it individually and organizationally, but also an understanding that it was hard.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Mar 30, 2024
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @AndresFreundTec@mastodon.social
@AndresFreundTec Am I understanding correctly that these were sshd processes fending off the deluge of bogus logins that any publicly accessible sshd has to contend with? If so, good thing you weren’t testing on a more isolated machine.
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Jim Winstead @jimw@mefi.social · Jan 21, 2024
Jim Winstead
@jimw@mefi.social

A software developer who used to own an art supply store in downtown Los Angeles. Also used to work for #MySQL, and a long-time contributor to the #PHP project.

mefi.social
Replying to @TimB0nd@phpc.social
@TimB0nd@phpc.social Looks like this code: https://github.com/er0k/crad/blob/5a958be82acb599932c4f6ccea22740b1db4f571/src/Crad/EncryptedStorage.php
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