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@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-12-12 17:30:04

#MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base
infoq.com/news/2025/12/mysql-d

MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base
A recent report has analyzed the repository statistics of the MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-17 18:00:48

When you beat the later levels, Linux restarts the whole game over but in hard mode. Sure, I've installed MySQL on Debian before, but this time around there's extra challenges - like the GPG signature on <dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/e

"BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK", and then a bunch of random text that is aligned to look like a square of text. Except the first line of the square has an extra character, messing up the look of the square.
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-11-20 16:15:52

"PHP is the lingua franca of affordable web hosting options; or, in other terms, the Toyota Corolla of programming languages: boring, solid, easy, and affordable. You can find, almost anywhere in the world, an affordable web hosting with the saint quadrinity of LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP; an OS, a web server, a database server, and a scripting language, in an inexpensive package, enabling the masses to go further. Paraphrasing George Clooney, what else?"

The Toyota Corolla Of Programming
In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new scripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called "The World Wide Web". After starting as a small project, and thanks to the crazy dot-com years, it grew dramatically to become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time. After some stumbling first steps, it eventually got some sort of standardization in 1997, even reluctantly including some OOP featur…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-11-18 21:59:37

I mean...

A graphic like the XKCD one except it says: The digital infrastructure most web sites should use: PHP/Perl/Python MySQL/MariaDB Apache Linux
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-12-30 02:42:43

Managed to sneak in a cheeky replacement of a 32-bit Debian 8 (jessie!) host before 2025 is over.
It was running MySQL as well. Sadly got to stick with that, well, MariaDB anyway, and at least it's 64-bit now!

@bici@mastodon.social
2025-12-31 02:55:13

Happy New Year with #Textpattern

Textpattern 4.9.0 is a feature release with support for PHP 8.5 & MySQL 8.4, new features, security enhancements, improvements and bug fixes. In semantic versioning terms, Textpattern 4.9.0 is a minor release; in Textpattern terms we consider this a ‘big’ release.
Get with the minimalist CMS that does all that