So here’s one story to tell about the recent announcement that CentOS Stream will become the only CentOS. I’m not deep in these particular communities — most of this is just things I’ve picked up over the years and some light googling. The Story In the beginning — around the year 2000 — an enterprise [...]
astormThis isn’t new news but it was new to me. “Modern” macs have a security feature called “Full Disk Access” which sits on top of your computer’s normal security systems and prevents programs from accessing certain files/resources. This is good — but apparently something about the protections of [...]
astormThis website is hosted as simple static files, but it’s managed via a private WordPress instance that runs from my personal computer. I’m in the middle of retiring my circa 2014 laptop for a new M1 Mac mini and migrating this WordPress system was — about as rough as I expected. What follows are some random notes in case [...]
astormI’m not writing much PHP these days, but my general impression is the PHP 8 release has been rough on project maintainers. I spent a bit of time this weekend catching up. Back in the fall Platform.sh, a PHP cloud hosting company, posted a ten part series on changes coming in PHP 8.0. With the language released they’ve [...]
astormI recently bought one of the new M1 Macs to replace my aging laptop, and with it came MacOS 11 Big Sur. There’s lots of foundational shifting things happening with Apple’s computers there days — one of those is the official deprecation of programming runtimes that have been shipping with OS X since its earliest days. [...]
astormMy internets brought me this boring looking syllabus for a MacEwan University course on the unix command line. The course itself looks both useful and practical, but what piqued my interest was the slides from the first three lectures contain one of the most concise-yet-digestible descriptions of the long history of unix variants [...]
astormThis entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Magento Front End 2020. Earlier posts include React: Hello Web Programmer, What is Magento PWA Studio, Magento PWA Studio: Looking at the Tools, and A note on the PHP UPWARD Server. This is the most recent post in the series. Is our previous two articles we took a look at Magento’s PWA [...]
astormI just pushed the big red button on the 2.3.5 release of Commerce Bug. This is a small bug fix release that allows Commerce Bug to run in Magento systems that have opted to remove the RequireJS library. Commerce Bug doesn’t rely on RequireJS for any core functionality — even back in 2015 I was wary enough of the new [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Magento Front End 2020. Earlier posts include React: Hello Web Programmer, What is Magento PWA Studio, and Magento PWA Studio: Looking at the Tools. Later posts include Magento Front End 2020: A Preview and Review of Hyvä. Kristof (of Fooman and ExtDN fame) sent me a quick note yesterday about the [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Magento Front End 2020. Earlier posts include React: Hello Web Programmer, and What is Magento PWA Studio. Later posts include A note on the PHP UPWARD Server, and Magento Front End 2020: A Preview and Review of Hyvä. In our previous article we talked a bit about the history of Magento’s [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Magento Front End 2020. Earlier posts include React: Hello Web Programmer. Later posts include Magento PWA Studio: Looking at the Tools, A note on the PHP UPWARD Server, and Magento Front End 2020: A Preview and Review of Hyvä. From time to time someone will ask me if I think Magento PWA Studio [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Magento Front End 2020. Later posts include What is Magento PWA Studio, Magento PWA Studio: Looking at the Tools, A note on the PHP UPWARD Server, and Magento Front End 2020: A Preview and Review of Hyvä. React is not the easiest development technology to learn. A big part of the problem is the [...]
astormIn a rare bit of “spam that was useful”, Perforce (who I guess own the Zend brand now?) published/publicized a white paper on how to get started with PHP Extension development. I don’t think there’s anything in here that isn’t up on the PHP Internals Book website or in the long out of print Extending and [...]
astormIf you’re creating code for other Node.js developers to use, chances are you’ll need a dash of run-time type checking. While TypeScript can help you with your types on a per-project basis you can’t force third party programmers to use it. Node’s built-in util module provides a number of useful methods for [...]
astormWhat went wrong with the libdispatch. A tale of caution for the future of concurrency.. This post from “Thomas“, the creator of the OS X/Mac OS utility TimeMachineEditor crossed my desk the other day. I remember when Apple announced Grand Central Dispatch (the branded name for libdispatch) as a thing, and being surprised that [...]
astormA quick primer (from curl’s most well known maintainer) on requesting websites from servers before you’ve officially changed their DNS entries. A quick TL;DR; if you’re conserving mouse clicks For non-SSL/HTTPS sites it’s as simple as changing the HOST header — curl --header "Host: example.com" [...]
astormIf you had trouble starting applications or saw a lot of “beach-balling” on your Mac last week it’s almost certain that Apple’s OCSP service was to blame. This article from Jeff Johnson (an independent Mac and iOS developer) gives a good high level overview of the problem before jumping into some equally good deep [...]
astormOne common request over on my patreon slack is helping folks reason about some piece of functionality as-implemented in the Magento 2 core. This usually means looking for a particular dependency on a class, and then looking for that class’s dependency, and following this dependency chain back until we find the actual five lines of [...]
astormA small bug fix release for everyone’s my favorite Magento 2 code generation tool and ad-hoc PHP module system. This fixes a small bug in the magento2:generate:schema-add-column command that only triggered when using pestle’s interactive mode. This bug, although small, was interesting to the software builder in me for a a few [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020. Earlier posts include Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020, and Composer Plugins and Installers. This is the most recent post in the series. Magento 1 was one of the last big PHP platforms that didn’t embrace composer as a distribution model [...]
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