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A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with Chris Hartjes (aka The Grumpy Programmer) about unfinished hobby projects. His advice got me thinking about how many projects I've got "on the go", and how they often go completely forgotten for months at a time.

I wrote a list of all the ones I can remember. I even included some ones that I "cancelled" or closed down, because I still sometimes think about bringing them back.

When I was finished, the list had 27 items.

This post is about Hobby Project 13. And there's video.

People sometimes talk about the Campsite Principle of coding, of taking the time to make things better for the person coming after you.

Well, I was recently doing some programming at an actual campsite, and let me tell you: there's only so much you can clean up as your battery winds down to zero.

Well, here we are. Time to put the pedal to the metal and start exploring non-Silex options for my many side projects. I've always defaulted to Silex because it was a quick and easy way to stand up a simple project with a handful of routes.

Luckily, there are several actively-developed options for that in the PHP world.

SlimPHP looks to be the most in-line with Silex's microframework goals.

A while back, I made deref.link as a brutally simple testbed for experimenting with AngularJS. It consists of a homepage and a route for checking the redirect path of URLs. I'm going to rewrite it using Slim and, in a later post, React.

Every once in a great while, there comes an inspiration the likes for which the world has been heretofore unprepared.

BeautifulPHP is one of those inspirations.

I've owned the domain since March 1st, 2015, but until last week I had been struggling to find a purpose for it beyond a pure joke. You see, I actually do feel that PHP deserves some accolades. A lot of people tend to bash it, the same way that I've caught myself bashing Perl. And Java. And Python. And C++. And Dot-Net. (They're good languages, Bront.) Except when PHP gets brought into the fray, things get waaaaay out of hand.