Weeknote: Feb 18th

Paul Kiddle

It was my intention to post once a week for 3 weeks, but last week was a write-off so here we are. Still, I think the experiment of "doing a limited run of weeknotes" has been a useful aproach.

Last week I wanted to patch one of our Laravel dependencies to fill in some missing functionality - this is something we would do routinely with Drupal, but it doesn't seem to be core Composer functionality. Fortunately, there's a module for that.

At a meetup a few months ago someone winced when I told them I work with PHP-- they hadn't used it themselves in a decade or two, and that got me to reflecting how much the language and the ecosystem has improved. Certainly NodeJS library developers could learn a thing or two.

Films!

After my last weeknote I went off to a screening of Return to Oz, the deeply creepy yet more faithful sequel to The Wizard thereof, with some fantastic puppetry and stunning visual effects for the era.

This week it was The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, a beautiful Czech semi-animated adventure film from the '60s (and presumably the main reference point for Terry Gillingham's animation style). Alongside other films like The Cassandra Cat it seems like Soviet Czechoslovakia had something really special going on in new wave cinema.

Both of these screenings were hosted by graduates of Scalarama Leeds, the DIY film festival. This Thursday they'll be kicking off the planning process for 2025-- maybe this is the year yours truly ends up screening something.

Any Other Business

Not much has changed

This concludes our latest series of Pauls Weeknotes. It's been fun, we'll have to do this again some time!