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Shawn Hooper

@shawnhooper.ca

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He/Him. Web Developer, Conference and Workshop Speaker. Theatre kid who still gets to do sound and lighting on the side. Small town Ontario, Canada Blog: https://shawnhooper.ca RSS: https://shawnhooper.ca/feed #webdev #php #laravel #wordpress #appsec

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · Nov 11

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Hi Bluesky! Really excited to see an apparent ramp up in people jumping over here, especially the tech communities I missed from Twitter/X.

I'm Shawn (he/him). I'm Director of Engineering and Security for a SaaS company. I've been a web developer since the late 90s.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 1m

Today both WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 and Contributor Day at WordCamp Canada 2025. Perfect timing!

I hope to see lots of great accessibility updates come out of Carleton University today.

2025.wpaccessibility.day/schedule/

canada.wordcamp.org/2025/

#WordPress #a11y #WCEH #WPA11yDay

Schedule - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025

See the great talks we have planned for this year!

2025.wpaccessibility.day

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 2d

Aaah, nature’s TV. #camping #fire #fall #ontario

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 2d

Who’s going to WordCamp Canada in Ottawa this week?

canada.wordcamp.org

I’ll be there - likely the last conference of the year. Looking forward to being back in the beautiful venue at Carleton U.

#WordPress #WCEH #Ottawa

WordCamp Canada 2025

Carleton University • October 15-17, 2025

canada.wordcamp.org

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 3d

That explains why they were all hanging out on the sunny side of the shower and washrooms.

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 3d

Anyone know what this little guy this? There’s a pile of them at this campground. #bugs #camping #ontario

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 4d

Hey #ottawa folks - @[email protected] is going to be in Ottawa on October 25th on his #Enshittification book tour.

writersfestival.org/events/fall-...

Sadly I already have plans that night. But you should go!

Enshittification

8:00pm, Saturday Oct 25 at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa — "Remember when the internet was young and alive, vibrant and accessible and free? Cory Doctorow does, and he knows what’s gone wrong—...

writersfestival.org

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 4d

It was only this week that I found out about the linux `type` command. Useful!

shawnhooper.ca/2025/10/10/t...

#linux #unix

The shell `type` command - Shawn Hooper

The bash `type` command - showing you how a command would be executed. Wish I knew about this 20 years ago....

shawnhooper.ca

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 9d

Rush announce a new tour - 'Fifty Something'.

consequence.net/2025/10/rush...

Oh man..... I might have to go to Toronto next year.

#rush #music #canada

RUSH to Return for 2026 North American Tour

RUSH are returning to the stage with a 2026 North American tour, marking their first shows in 11 years.

consequence.net

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 11d

Craft CMS is moving to Laravel

laravel-news.com/craft-cms-is...

#PHP #Laravel

Craft CMS is moving to Laravel - Laravel News

Craft CMS just announced on stage at their Dot All conference that they will be moving to Laravel for Craft v6

laravel-news.com

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 11d

Discovered the Presets feature in v3 of Spatie's Laravel CSP package this week. What a powerful improvement.

Blogged about it here:

shawnhooper.ca/2025/10/03/c...

Thanks @spatie.be !

shawnhooper.ca

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 12d

Sometimes I miss the crudeness of text based interfaces.

Setup screen on an NSI lighting console.

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 12d

Awesome!

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 13d

The new Laravel Forge dashboard looks really nice. Well done team #Laravel

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 14d

I can't believe AWS CodeBuild doesn't support PHP 8.4 yet.
PHP 8.5 is out in November.

#devops #php

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 21d

New AI idea.... detects when I'm about to sneeze and turns off my camera & mic on Zoom!

#ai #allergies #remotework

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Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 21d

Is the rapture at midnight local time, or UTC? #devlife

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · 27d

Attending our local OWASP meetup tonight.

owasp.org/www-chapter-...

#ottawa #owasp

OWASP Ottawa | OWASP Foundation

OWASP Chapter serving Canada's National Capital Region.

owasp.org

Shawn Hooper @shawnhooper.ca · Sep 5

I can't wait to watch this documentary about John Candy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcQ...

Coming October 10th.

Get the tissues ready.

#TIFF #JohnCandy #Canada

John Candy: I Like Me - Official Trailer | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

www.youtube.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Sep 4

New from 404 Media: this company turns dashcams into 'virtual CCTV cameras'. Then hackers got in. Hacker accessed terabytes of users recordings. Includes a user driving to CIA entrance; others at U.S. military bases. Big tech also buying images from the cameras

www.404media.co/this-company...

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In

A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...

www.404media.co

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