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marcoarment / S3.php
Last active July 8, 2025 17:39
A simple PHP class to perform basic operations against Amazon S3 and compatible services.
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A simple PHP class to perform basic operations against Amazon S3 and compatible
services. Requires modern PHP (7+, probably) with curl, dom, and iconv modules.
Copyright 2022 Marco Arment. Released under the MIT license:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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joyeusenoelle / NewYearSolstice.md
Last active December 24, 2025 23:31
Why isn't the New Year on the Winter Solstice?

“Why isn’t the new year on the winter solstice?”

The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.

Like, seriously, people notice "OCTOber" and "DECEMber" and say, "hey, those mean 'eight' and 'ten', but they're the 10th and 12th months, what's up with that?".

If you've got a little more history, you'll know that July and August are named after Julius and Augustus Caesar, and think, "oh, they added those two months and bumped the rest of the months back."

Nope. The Romans were way, way worse at calendars than that.