A free-and-open-source (BSD 3 Clause) security checklist for anyone running (or with a vendor who’s running) a Magento 2 system themselves. Provided by security stalwart Talesh Seeparsan, who you should talk-to-slash-hire if you need any computer security work done (Magento or otherwise). The list is pretty bonkers. Seeing [...]
astormA bit of a coda to my post on Symfony HttpClient — I reported the bug to the Symfony project and it was, unsurprisingly, closed with one of those annoying engineering responses: Expected Behavior. In this case Expected Behavior means We acknowledge the behavior and don’t know how to fix it right now and don’t want to [...]
astormIn traditional, “plain Blain” style javascript, it’s relatively simple to access an object’s property via a string // prop-of.ts class Foo { prop1 = 'foo' prop2 = 'baz' prop3 = 'bar' } const foo = new Foo() // using a string constant console.log(foo['prop1']) // using a string's variable const prop2 = 'prop2' [...]
astormA small post that’s a little off my normal beat — sometimes software feels like a never ending series of Y2K like paper cuts. ISBNs are cross-publisher serial numbers for books. If you’re publishing a book, and you want to tap into global supply chains (i.e. have stores be able to order and stock your book), you need to [...]
astormHere’s two quick stories about providing native Windows support for pestle. Home Directory The first issue boiled down to our using the following code to get a user’s home directory $home = trim(`echo ~`); if(!is_dir($home)) { throw new Exception("Could not find home directory with echo ~"); } This works for the *nix [...]
astormI just had a nice reminder that sometimes reporting a bug to a public software forum can matter, even if you suspect/know it’ll be closed out. Someone familiar with the Symfony docs process ran across the same problem I had with the HttpClient, and appears to have had the same “what is even happening reaction I had”, [...]
astormJust a quick note that a new version of Commerce Bug (3.2.4) is out in the world. This release fixes a small bug where the jsTree elements in the KO Scopes tab could interfere with the styling of jsTree elements that core Magento used in places like the Access Control Roles tree. If you follow my feeds on Stack Overflow or Twitter you [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Async PHP. This is the first post in the series. One luxury afforded to the average PHP programmer is never having to worry about threads or asynchronous programming. Unlike other dynamic languages of its era (ruby, python, etc.), PHP has no built-in concept of a thread. PHP also came along early [...]
astormThis entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, Pestle 1.4.4 Released, [...]
astormComing up through the dynamic languages and having my “typed” language be C, I mostly missed out on the whole “generics” thing. Cue the late 2010s and generics are a thing in TypeScript and every so often there’s a push to get generics into PHP. A few years back I figured it was time to learn what was going [...]
astormI’m working my way through James Cogland’s Building Git and it’s a delightful read. Git and its role in building software is fertile grounds for exploring the social interactions of the software industry. Git’s history, in brief, is the Linux Kernel project started using a version control system (named BitKeeper) [...]
astormRecently I was moving a few of the websites and web applications I run on my laptop from .dev domain names over to .localhost domain names. The .dev top level domain became a real thing a few years back. Google bought it, started using it, and (most importantly) browsers started automatically redirecting .dev domain names from http to [...]
astormOver in my patreon slack room (the semi-private slack where I help patrons with their programming questions), a patron wan running into an issue where Magento catalog/category pages were generating an X-Magento-Tags HTTP header that was “too large”. They’d managed to track this down to a GitHub issue from this summer. [...]
astormThe ExtDN group, a collection of Magento extension vendors trying to keep the platform a reasonable place for extension vendors to do good work, have released an open source and vendor neutral project that will give you “one line installation” of any composer managed Magento extension. (you can even install it via homebrew) [...]
astormThis entry is part 11 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, Pestle 1.4.4 Released, [...]
astormTen years ago I stumbled across a small indie game named VVVVVV — its aesthetic mimicked a game from the mid-80s on an early personal computer but its game play fully explored a simple game mechanic using everything “we” know about modern game design. Even in 2010 I didn’t really play games much but I played the [...]
astormLast week I had the good fortune to visit Montreal and attend the Node+JS Interactive conference, 2019 edition. It’s nice being able to attend a conference anonymously without the expectations that would materialize whenever I attended Magento’s Image conference. These are just some quick high level thoughts on the talks I [...]
astormPossibly useful ten tweet overview of React. I touch React components occasionally but not often and find this a nice refresher of what’s going on with those sort-of-a-class files.
astormThis one comes straight from my Patreon slack (where, despite not actively working with the Magento platform, I still advise, mentor, and be-a-therapist-for people who are — also while I’m pitching my Patreon slack to you I also still sell Commerce Bug and No Frills Magento 1/2 Layout, both of which will make you and your [...]
astormThere’s a new PHP remote code execution bug making the rounds, and I thought it might make for some blogging fodder, as it hits me right in my “intersection of deeply technical content + mushy culture stuff” feels. If you’re interested in learning more about this remote code execution bug, why it could effect more [...]
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