Thanks for writing all this up! I have a friend group of mixed attention spans and this will be invaluable for next time. Asymmetric instruction is always such an uphill battle

If for any reason you wanted to stick with PHP, Symfony + Doctrine has been a delight to work with. For JS projects I pretty much always go Node for easy startup, but the frontend changes based on project needs and my whims.

Happy birthday! I hope the big screen experience was an excellent time

The new Futurama season dropped an Apple Maps punchline in the last episode that felt painfully out of date even for our timeline.

I thought the writing had been decent up to that point, which made me realize how bad public perception still must be (on a product that works great now, imo)