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Lincoln Russell

@linc@phpc.social
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Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him]

"Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

230 Followers
203 Following
50 Posts
Joined November 06, 2022
Homepage:
https://lincolnwebs.com
LinkedIn:
https://linkedin.com/in/lincolnwebs/
Project:
https://github.com/prosembler/nitro-porter/
Project:
https://github.com/agorakit/agorakit

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · 3d ago
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Just made the 2000th commit on Nitro Porter. Naturally, it was a fix for a static analysis error that slipped by me. 😂
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Aug 03, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
You can draw a line from the rise of 4chan to the Trump administration. Being a virulent, fascist asshole in public fully broke societal containment. Putting the lid back on that jar is more work than an election can do. Millennials & Zoomers will learn to organize, or we're gonna lose everything.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 31, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Folks who think you're using "fascist" hyperbolically never stop to wonder who convinced them all uses of that word are hyperbolic... 🤔
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 31, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @timwolla@phpc.social
@timwolla@phpc.social In a vacuum, perhaps. In our world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country) I'd rather pave the cowpath.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 31, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
I've got Microsoft talking to me like I'm a computer in one window while Discord talks to me in another like I'm living in Victorian times with MD,Y.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 31, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
ALSO — *weaponizing* ISO 8601 by using it EVERYWHERE "because it's the standard!!1" —even in unhinged places like, say, an isolated date range in a web UI — is a jerk thing to do. No, my brain cannot parse "2026-07-27 - 2026-08-01" as fast as "27 Jul - 1 Aug", so sorry for not being a computer. 😛 Maybe think about what you're building.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 31, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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⚠️ There are only 2 (two) good date formats: DMY (31 Jul 2026) for reading, narration, & natural language. ISO 8601 (2026-07-31) for lists, sorting, & technical accuracy. Most of the world already does this! Yes, really. 👋 If you don't... perhaps consider getting your shit together. 🤗 Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk. 🙇‍♂️
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 29, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @naderman@phpc.social
@naderman@phpc.social Success can cut deep. 🥲
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 27, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
Obviously there are many asterisks, circumstances, & fuzzy maths involved to make a toot that neat. No, I am not actually job seeking. Yes, I am making light of a thing that makes me sad on the regular. It's good way to cope tbh. 🙃 "Why have I never really had a mentor in my software career when I had so many before that? Oh right..."
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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4 folks hired me into software orgs in the last 15 years. How long each lasted in their role afterward, chronologically: ~12 months ~9 months ~6 months ~3 months So... if you're looking to leave your role in ~0 months... shoot me a job offer I guess. 😮‍💨 😂
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 25, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Yard sale day. Random teenager: “You seem like a dad. Or know dad things.” You're not wrong, kid. 😂
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 20, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
me: the heartstopper movie is out… husband: we should rewatch the series first me: i find your terms agreeable we just binged season one and i am fully prepared to fight the entire world *right this minute* i don’t have the words to adequately convey what the series means to me, i am sure this is a therapy toot, but good lord the catharsis of watching high schoolers be… nearly mentally healthy
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
omg also they didn't unpublish their myriad bespoke dependency library repos which are far more likely to contain a bug than core imo 😂 so even if I believe their bullshit for a second, 0/10 execution
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
yes i claimed the namespace & safely pointed it back at valid code before i tooted about it, don't @ me 😛 im irritatingly flippant under pressure, not irresponsible
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @linc@phpc.social
"it would be more secure if we deleted the 1 copy of the code that could distribute a patch and also open a textbook security chain flaw" —Higher Logic, apparently
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @linc@phpc.social
THEY DELETED THE ENTIRE PACKAGIST ORG 😱
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
@luceos@fosstodon.org The most embarrassing part is how confused they'll be about why I could post on the "closed" community forum, because they've forgotten how their own software works.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
bro hasn't even heard of the wayback machine? forks? _how git works_? this must be a feeble gaslighting attempt or it's just too incompetent to comprehend
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @linc@phpc.social
I am absolutely stunned by this incredible divorce from the reality in the realm of software security.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
@luceos@fosstodon.org "if we delete our code then the AI boogeyman can't get us" looooooool https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39625/vanilla-open-source-update wowwowow
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @luceos@fosstodon.org
@luceos@fosstodon.org I just found their note — they clearly don't even know it exists lol
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Holy shit, Higher Logic's incompetence knows no bounds. https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39625/vanilla-open-source-update
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 17, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Looks like Higher Logic unpublished the Vanilla Forums repo last week (that they stopped sharing code to last year). Good thing I totally saw that coming and made a fork. 😎 https://github.com/prosembler/vanilla
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 14, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @linc@phpc.social
@naderman@phpc.social The bar is *on the ground* for responsible technical management in SaaS companies. It's 100% driven by what folks think they can get away with ignoring. I've *never* joined leadership of a company and not found a deep rabbit hole of serious problems.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 14, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @naderman@phpc.social
@naderman@phpc.social Man, that rings true. Packagist always gets left off the IT shutdown list, and there's others. I was on packages I shouldn't have been for a LONG time. I am still the resource admin on a different platform for Vanilla, which I left more than 6 years ago. Just had a reach out AND an admin notification *this week* about 2 separate accounts for a job I left a year ago.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 13, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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People are organizing more. Like... all over. It's exhausting and slow. And hopeful. And resilient. The pendulum swings once more. If you haven't noticed it yet, I think you will soon.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 13, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social
Replying to @ramsey@phpc.social
@ramsey@phpc.social The social club I've managed for 20-odd years has exactly the same problem, and we just talked about yesterday. This feels like a workable solution for us, too. Thanks!
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 13, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @kboyd@phpc.social
@kboyd@phpc.social Never too late to reconfirm your position, but one ping only.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 10, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @luceos@fosstodon.org
@luceos@fosstodon.org @ian@phpc.social A future version of @agorakit@phpc.social. The Discord scraper can do incremental updates, so I'll keep the data fresh til it's "ready" or Discord forces our hand. 'Plan A' is not to abandon Discord entirely but wind down the scope of text chats. Over the last few years, my vision evolved enough I'd no longer call my goal a 'forum' and the things I want to build would weigh too heavily on a plugin-based system so I had to let go of Flarum.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Latest way I made myself lol: A friend is thoughtfully polling a small group of us for the setting & theme of a TTRPG he's setting up. I'm a first-time player. We've been chatting about it for a couple days. I reply to the 6th poll and give a verbose answer re: availability. I wait a beat. Then: "anyway when do i decide im a bard"
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 09, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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I believe I am soon to be the first person to migrate a #community out of #Discord with all its data intact. 😳
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 06, 2026
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Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Emoji-based post reactions were invented at Vanilla Forums in 2010 in Montreal. If you're reading this, you're now a significant % of the population that knows this. I'm pretty sure if a US tech monopoly had done it, *everyone* in tech would know, because they'd never shut up about it.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 03, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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I am pro-excommunication. I am also pro-governance, of the democratic variety. If you don't know where the lines are and aren't enforcing them, you're not governing at all. Fascists love to call *you* a fascist for having principles & enforcing any at all. They want to erase the lines to accrue power & validate their world view. Fuck 'em. It'll feel real bad. That's because you have empathy. Excommunicate them anyway. Come talk to me about it and I'll give you a high five in solidarity.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 03, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @linc@phpc.social
Similarly, "how to build a not-for-profit community" has never been made into software. A forum is not this. A forum is "Here is basic functionality for peer-to-peer content." If you think that's the same thing, extremely do not @ me.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Jul 03, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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"How to make a community newspaper" has never been encoded in software and I cannot convey how insane that is to me. I understand why, I'm just saying all the reasons are unhinged and the enemy.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 16, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
@jaredwhite@indieweb.social boooooooooooooooo
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 13, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social

"It's OK that X isn't done securely because we do Y and Z checks too" is not a reassuring statement.

What you actually are saying is: "I knew this was insecure and did it anyway" — that tells me all I need to know.

The last time someone said that to me, you'll never guess what I found when I inspected Y & Z.

Spoilers: My next task was to teach a medium-sized company how to handle a #security incident.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 12, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @ramsey@phpc.social
@ramsey@phpc.social I think that'd be great, those slides rung true to me. I think about debugging a lot — I've gotten compliments about my ability in it yet have trouble explaining it — and wrote about "what is it anyway?" last summer: https://lincolnwebs.com/debugging-everything/
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 12, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @linc@phpc.social
No one in a company wants to admit that your feelings are important. I have often been told not to trust my feelings, because others know better. Luckily, I'm terrible at listening and my feelings are louder than theirs.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 12, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social

Ways I have uncovered critical show-stopping #security flaws:

1. Someone in marketing off-handedly mentioned something odd in their open source install of our software.

2. I ran standup for new team and heard a dev describe a feature I wasn't familiar with, so I asked 1 question.

3. I skimmed the code of an app we'd acquired before I started, but no one had inspected, because I had a feeling.

4. Someone in support noticed a user with an odd name and mentioned it in Slack.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 12, 2026
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@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

phpc.social

I've been employed as a developer by 4 companies that sold software.

In ALL, I discovered at least one potentially-company-ending #security flaw.

I also led #incident responses to active exploits in 3/4 that successfully contained breeches without catastrophic impacts.

I want to believe this is all because I'm very good at my job.

What I actually believe is that the bar for security knowledge & critical thinking is on the ground and I trip over it frequently by talking to people outside dev.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 10, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Finished this 1-season #anime series on Friday night. It's about a group of kids, 1 of whom died after an accidental fall in grade school, causing them to drift apart & cope independently.

Now in high school, the friend's spirit suddenly appears to the group's former "leader" (only), causing them to reconnect and reexamine what happened that day, finally confronting their grief.

Absolutely sobbed at the finale, 10/10, no notes.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 10, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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What % of professional developers using version control don't really understand or actively use git staging?

I think it's 80%, maybe more.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 10, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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I'm still out here fretting about my outdated use of arrays in #PHP while companies tell their devs to stop reading code.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · May 10, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @stevegrunwell@phpc.social
@stevegrunwell@phpc.social As a Detroiter, I'd mostly be concerned the establishment had lost its damn mind.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Apr 12, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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For me, what eats the most time in Web development is uncertainty about how a particular thing behaves. Even *if* working as documented, edge cases abound.

But to go faster with #AI, I'm supposed to stop understanding how *anything* behaves.

OK.

The thing that takes the most time when grocery shopping is understanding what I'm consuming, where it came from, and how much it costs.

To go faster, I should throw whatever monopoly-owned processed shit is on sale into my cart.

Now I get it.

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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Apr 10, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @simulo@hci.social
@simulo@hci.social Of course, but those opinions come from Hacker News etc which are controlled by…
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Apr 06, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @Crell@phpc.social
@Crell @ramsey @OndrejMirtes @joeposaurus The most gut-wrenching & terrifying discovery of the last year has been how many people I *thought* were independently thoughtful who turned out to not be *whatsoever.* Still grappling with how much it's upended my life but determined to find a new path.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Apr 04, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @shawnhooper@fosstodon.org
@shawnhooper @joost It's an excellent post that unfortunately left me with the dread of knowing the window will close on Mullenweg's fingers before he'd ever get out of the way.
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Lincoln Russell @linc@phpc.social · Apr 04, 2026
Lincoln Russell
@linc@phpc.social

Web software leader deep in community organizing & education who thinks PHP-backed hypermedia is 💯🚀. [he/him] "Deal with evil through strength. But affirm the good in man through trust. In this way, we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." — Master Kahn

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Replying to @julian@activitypub.space
@julian @luceos@fosstodon.org A little birdie told me long ago they'd made an internal process or tool for importing the CSV-like format the original Vanilla Porter output so they could import from the same competitors as us without sharing anything back. So. I have feelings about it. 🙃 Not least because that behavior is why there are proprietary packages for Porter locked away inside Higher Logic to this day. I made a list to reimplement one day, but what a waste. Also why the license is AGPLv3, now.
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