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PHP runs roughly three out of every four websites on the internet.
WordPress. WooCommerce. Laravel apps. Small business sites. Online stores.
Most of them haven’t installed a single PHP security update this year.
A security engineer who’s audited over 400 PHP sites told me: “In 2026 alone, PHP patched an SQL injection, a memory corruption bug, a credential leak, and a flaw that can crash a server with one request. I still find sites running versions that stopped getting fixes last year. The owners have no idea.”
8 security fixes. 1 deadline. 10 minutes to check your site.
Here’s every PHP security issue you need to check before your site becomes the example 🧵👇
James retweeted
PHP runs roughly three out of every four websites on the internet.
WordPress. WooCommerce. Laravel apps. Small business sites. Online stores.
Most of them haven’t installed a single PHP security update this year.
A security engineer who’s audited over 400 PHP sites told me: “In 2026 alone, PHP patched an SQL injection, a memory corruption bug, a credential leak, and a flaw that can crash a server with one request. I still find sites running versions that stopped getting fixes last year. The owners have no idea.”
8 security fixes. 1 deadline. 10 minutes to check your site.
Here’s every PHP security issue you need to check before your site becomes the example 🧵👇
James retweeted
A guy who answered 20,000 Apple support chats in 3 years told me:
"Almost every iPhone complaint I got after iOS 26 came out was a settings problem. Not a broken phone. Not a bad battery. A setting the owner never changed."
"'The new design is hard to read' Liquid Glass set to Clear. There's a Tinted option one menu away. They never saw it."
"'I get 8 spam calls a day' Call Screening off. The iPhone can ask callers who they are before it ever rings."
"'I wasted my lunch break on hold' Hold Assist. The iPhone can wait on hold for you. They didn't know it existed."
"'My texts are full of scams' Screen Unknown Senders off. One toggle sorts every stranger into a separate list."
"'My battery dies by dinner' Adaptive Power off. The iPhone can quietly stretch the battery on heavy days."
"Every time I walked someone through these settings, they said the same thing: 'Why didn't my phone tell me this?'"
"Because the update screen shows you the new look. It doesn't walk you through the settings that actually change your day."
Here are 10 iOS 26 settings most iPhone owners have never changed:🧵
James retweeted
Apple just released the iPhone 18 Pro Max.
The first iPhone with a variable aperture camera. The first iPhone with Pro Controls that give manual control over aperture, shutter speed, and white balance. A 2nm A20 Pro chip with a Dual 16-core Neural Engine double the AI processing power of the previous generation. Up to 45 hours of video playback. 5 minutes of charging for 7 hours of use. Siri AI with onscreen awareness. And iOS 27 with Liquid Glass, the biggest visual redesign since iOS 7.
Millions of people bought it. Most of them will take it out of the box, transfer their old phone, and use it identically to the iPhone they replaced same apps, same layout, same camera at default settings, same Action Button set to silent mode, same Camera Control button pressed once to open the camera and never used for anything else.
A professional photographer who’s been shooting on pre-production iPhone 18 Pro Max units since August and has tested every camera feature Apple built into this phone told his assistant something during a shoot that reframed everything about how the iPhone 18 Pro Max is meant to be used.
“Everyone who bought this phone bought a camera that rivals a $2,000 mirrorless setup. Then they open the Camera app, tap the shutter button, and let computational photography make every decision. They never touch the variable aperture the first physical aperture control in iPhone history. They never open Pro Controls to set shutter speed manually. They never adjust the new texture and grain settings in Photographic Styles. They never customize Camera Control beyond ‘press to open camera.’ They never reprogram the Action Button. And they never ask Siri AI to do the things it can actually do now read what’s on screen, understand context, and take action across apps. The iPhone 18 Pro Max isn’t a better iPhone. It’s a different category of device. And 90% of owners will use it as a slightly faster version of their old phone.”
He showed them 11 iPhone 18 Pro Max features that most owners will never discover on their own.
Here’s every hidden iPhone 18 Pro Max feature most owners miss 🧵
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Black Friday is 5 weeks away.
Most Prime members will spend the season the same way: search, click "Buy Now," and pay whatever price shows up.
They'll buy a "deal" that was cheaper in July. They'll miss the Lightning Deal that sold out in 4 minutes. They'll buy gifts in late October and lose weeks of return time. They'll ship a surprise gift that shows up in a shared order history.
A former Amazon pricing analyst told me: "The holiday season is when Prime members overpay the most. Prices move constantly. Deals go live for Prime members first. Return windows get extended, which changes when you should buy. Almost nobody uses any of it."
10 moves. All free. Make them before Black Friday. 🧵👇
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A remote worker owned 4 audio devices.
Sony WH-1000XM5 for focus work. $350. Jabra Evolve2 75 for video calls. $280. Samsung Galaxy Buds for the gym. $130. A sleep headband with built-in speakers for falling asleep to podcasts. $40.
$800 in headphones. 4 chargers. 4 cases. 4 devices fighting for drawer space. Each one “the best” at one specific thing.
His coworker wore one pair of AirPods Pro 2 for everything. Focus. Calls. Workouts. Sleep. Commute. Travel. Meetings. Music. Podcasts. All day. Every day. One pair.
He stared at her desk one charging case, no headphone stand, no tangled cables and asked: “How do you use one pair for everything? I need different headphones for different things.”
She handed him one AirPod: “Put this in. I’ll show you 9 things your 4 headphones do separately and these do simultaneously. In one earbud.”
He sold all 4 devices within a month.
“I spent $800 on 4 headphones because I assumed no single earbud could do focus, calls, workouts, and sleep well enough to replace the specialists. The AirPods Pro 2 didn’t just replace them. They outperformed 3 of the 4 and matched the Sony on the one thing I thought nothing could touch: noise cancellation.”
Here are 9 scenarios where one $249 pair of AirPods Pro 2 replaces $660+ in specialized headphones 🧵
(Uncomfortable satisfying truth):
“Here’s the uncomfortable satisfying truth about PHP security.
PHP isn’t insecure. It’s one of the most widely used and most patched languages on the web. The PHP team shipped security fixes almost every month this year.
The problem isn’t the patches. It’s that nobody installs them.
Site owners assume their host handles it. Hosts assume the owner will request it. Developers assume the site is ‘done.’
So the SQL injection fix sits unused. The credential leak fix sits unused. The crash fix sits unused. And the version keeps aging until it stops getting fixes at all.
Attackers don’t need a new vulnerability. They just need your old one.
Every fix in this thread already exists. Most sites just never installed it.”
If you run a website, check your PHP version tonight. It takes 2 minutes.
Update to the latest patch. Restart PHP-FPM. Turn off what you don’t use. Plan your 8.2 upgrade before December 31.
If you don’t run a website, send this to someone who does. Your developer, your agency, or the friend who built your store.
Follow me @jamescoder12 for more threads breaking down the tech that runs your life, and how to keep it safe.
What PHP version is your site on right now?
Drop it below 👇
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