Hi, I'm Derick.

I work on PHP as part of the PHP Foundation.

I am the author of @Xdebug.

I like #walking, #languages, #photography, #astronomy, and #space, and will post about these topics alongside #PHP.

Dutch geek living in London.

Principal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, QUnit project lead @qunit, jQuery Infra Team @jquery, W3C Web Perf WG.

Avatar: I look up, raindrops bounce from the tip of my leather hat. Photo by Niek Hidding.

Creative interests: linguistics, music, photography. Work interests: performance, web standards, design, privacy, security.

#webperf #PHP #mediawiki #wikipedia #qunit #nederlands #fedi22 #foss #OpenSource #tech #technology #wikimedia #jquery

Digital Nomad. Web Developer. Full Stack. Traveler. Hearts WordPress. Vanlife. Photographer. Book author. Minimalist. Writes tutorials on Apache/.htaccess, security, performance, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL. AI/LLM enthusiast. Enjoys graphic design, DIY publishing, digital art, drawing, painting, music, and delicious food :)

Online since 1999.

Maire de #Rinxent #PasDeCalais 🇫🇷🗳️

Web developer (#PHP, #Symfony) at #Prestashop #opensource #ecommerce 🐘

Founder of @wallabag a read-it-later application #wallabag #libre #free #oss 🦘

#basketball 🏀

#programmer #sysadmin #linux #archlinux #php #typescript

Développeur Freelance #PHP #Laravel #iOS et #Android.
Créateur de l’application #Saracroche
🐶🐱🚲🏳️‍🌈

Web craftsman and open source enthusiast. I do web and linux stuff. Organizer of @phpugms. Developer at at #check24. (He/Him).

Reuben Walker, Publisher of Symfony Station. Hey fedi-friends, we will be closing this account in early 2026. Please follow us at our new home, The Programmer's Fulcrum, @thefulcrum Languages: EN et FR #fediverse #symfony #GravCMS #ghost #WordPress #WriteFreely #OMN #css #html #php

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I teach #PHP, #Drupal, #SQL, and #Linux foundations.

I talk less about Drupal over at https://social.jpoesen.com/@jpoesen

#SoftwareEngineering with +30 years experience wearing many hats, from #startups to #international corporations. Building, #leading & retaining #nearshore & #offshore #teams in multiple countries.

Working #freelance as #TeamLead, #Developer and #Architect throughout #EU, mainly #Bratislava #Slovakia & #Stockholm #Sweden. Fluent in English, German & Swedish.

Professionally: #SoftwareDesign, #Architecture, #CICD, #TDD, #DDD, #Agile, #ScrumMaster, #ProjectManagement, #DevOps, #FullStack, #Java, #PHP, #CPP, #CLang, #Python, #GoLang, #RDBMS, #Database, #Jenkins, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #MacOS

Formerly professionally: #Electronics, #Firmware

Other interests: #Photography (co-founder Nikonians), #RetroComputing, #HamRadio, #Running, #Synthesizer

Avatar: On a smaller motorboat on Danube with Bratislava castle & Novy Most bridge visible in the sunset.

Header image: Three dogs waiting at a gas station for their owner. Colorado, USA.

Arch Linux
Vivaldi Browser

Autistic and retired, a great combination.

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I worked in IT for 23 years, my longest career.

I also worked four years at a mental hospital.

Of the two, I preferred the hospital.

Now I play on the Internet and am learning some PHP for my website.

I also play Chess at the Milton Keynes chess club and online at Lichess.

I use Arch Linux and the Niri Window Manager.
Matrix: @stevenwayne:matrix.org

Alaska Native • He/him • 18+ • Cynical misanthropist.

Fox around and find out.

You can’t hate me more than I hate me.

Warning: Posts may be repeated. Because I’m old.

Self-taught web developer (PHP for life) and lover of large dogs, growing my own superhots and making hot sauces, 3D printing, crochet/knitting.

And now a sailboat. As of 2025.

Warning: Will not spoil things released within the past three months; everything else is fair game.

Ingeniero backend (senior #PHP, junior #NodeJS), fitboxer madrugador, podcaster de la vieja escuela (@kafelog), sinestésico temporal-espacial y neutral puro.

Me gusta la tecnología, comer bien y viajar bien, el café de especialidad, el vermú artesano, la ciencia ficción, el terror (en especial, el terror cósmico), los musicales, las zapatillas y los teclados mecánicos táctiles de perfil bajo.

También me llaman OJ.

Mis publicaciones expiran a las 4 semanas, con algunas excepciones.

Web developer based in China. I don’t watch short-form videos and I hope to stay that way.
Profile image alternative text: A Chinese man with short black hair, wearing a beige hoodie and a blue and gold lanyard sitting in the front row of a meeting room with a laptop open and a white mug in front of him while attending WordCamp Asia 2025 workshop.

Hashtags:
#HTML #CSS #PHP #WebComponents #WebDev #JavaScript #WordPress #UseThePlatform #Accessibility #Photography #ChinesePoetry