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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

Tips on Sidekiq Queues

Sidekiq is great. It's a really handy way to take slow stuff that your application is doing like uploading images or sending emails, and get them out of the web request. Users don't want to sit around waiting for that stuff to happen most of the

Codes of Conduct: Maybe They're Not So Bad?

I've written a few articles about Code of Conducts, which are a hotly debated version of the Anti-Harassment policy you almost certainly signed at any job you've held since delivering newspapers. Before I grappled the subject head-on, I wanted to clear a few related points out

Geeks Giving for Aids: 2016

For the third time, I will be doing a three-day ride from Boston to New York, along with hundreds of amazing people. Everyone was in various levels of fitness and with various levels of interest in cycling, but everyone had come together with the aim of helping raise a shitload

Talking About Diversity: Conspiracy

This is part of a blog series, about why the PHP community is having a rough time talking about diversity related issues (like code of conducts), and struggling to handle toxic behaviors from members. * Why is Everyone Outraged? * Talking About Diversity: Marginalization * Talking About Diversity: Conspiracy In the previous article

Talking About Diversity: Marginalization

This is part of a blog series, about why the PHP community is having a rough time talking about diversity related issues (like code of conducts), and struggling to handle toxic behaviors from members. * Why is Everyone Outraged? * Talking About Diversity: Marginalization * Talking About Diversity: Conspiracy The other week I

TechBikers 2016

When I'm not making stupid jokes on Twitter, or in a bar, or making stupid jokes on Twitter from a bar, I'm usually riding bikes. I do this because exploring is a hobby, and the adrenaline of going life-threateningly fast is addictive. Sometimes, I ride much

Why Care About PHP Middleware?

Recently there has been a lot of buzz about HTTP middleware in PHP. Since PSR-7 was accepted, everyone and their friend Sherly has been knocking out middleware implementations, some of them stunning, some of them half-arsed, and some of them rolled into existing frameworks. HTTP Middleware is a wonderful thing,