A 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 [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020. Earlier posts include Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020. Later posts include Installing OpenMage: Bridging a Generational Gap. I’m planning to take a look at options for installing OpenMage — but before we do that we need to do a [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020. Later posts include Composer Plugins and Installers, and Installing OpenMage: Bridging a Generational Gap. After years of a sliding deadline, Adobe finally followed through on putting Magento 1 through their “end of life” process. My [...]
astormAfter over a decade on the 2010 version of Square Space I decided it was time to migrate my company’s tiny little website over to the new version of Square Space — the hegemony of black text on a white background comes for us all. Hats off to Square Space for keeping the old platform around for for commoditizing the bespoke [...]
astormAfter three years at the day job I’ve been granted access to a physical escape key. I prefer a “build everything back by hand” approach to setting up a new laptop, and this includes pulling over two locally run PHP applications I use to automate my job. One’s a WordPress P2 instance I use to log my daily work, the [...]
astormI’ve had these three free videos on my watch list for a while now. In twenty one minutes Chris Fidao runs you through the basic things you’ll want to do whenever you spin up a new VM somewhere. The videos cover setting up a non-root ssh user, locking down who can log in via SSH and forcing those same people to use SSH keys [...]
astormI’m finding the various Rust guides well written — or perhaps just well written for me. This bit in the Cargo Guide (Rust’s package manager and build tool) on Cargo.lock files was particularly succinct. If you’re building a non-end product, such as a rust library that other rust packages will depend on, put Cargo.lock [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Exploring Deno. Earlier posts include Where does Deno Code Come From. This is the most recent post in the series. In the world of web services your standard issue hello world program will Start a webserver Have that web server respond to a request with the text Hello World Comparing Deno’s [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Four Steps to Async Iterators. Earlier posts include ES6 Symbols, Javascript Generators, and ES6's Many for Loops and Iterable Objects. This is the most recent post in the series. Generator functions predate the introduction of async/await in javascript, which means that while creating an [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Four Steps to Async Iterators. Earlier posts include ES6 Symbols, and Javascript Generators. Later posts include Async Generators and Async Iteration in Node.js. Today we’ve got another remedial-for-me dive into modern javascript practices. Specifically, we’ll be looking at the for ... [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Four Steps to Async Iterators. Earlier posts include ES6 Symbols. Later posts include ES6's Many for Loops and Iterable Objects, and Async Generators and Async Iteration in Node.js. Generators are weird. They make programs behave in ways that are non-obvious. This weirdness easily turns into [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Four Steps to Async Iterators. Later posts include Javascript Generators, ES6's Many for Loops and Iterable Objects, and Async Generators and Async Iteration in Node.js. One pattern that keeps coming up when I’m spelunking older NPM packages for Node.js is using Symbols to define properties [...]
astormLike most middle aged technology writers who write independently online, it’s been harder to “little-p” publish a steady stream of words in recent years. I’ve gotten better at this in 2020 thanks to the WP Scheduled Posts plugin for WordPress. The plugin has a bunch of free and paid features I’ve never [...]
astormI’m coming up on about a year of full-time NodeJS work, and it’s only now that I’m starting to understand the true nature of NPM’s dependency management. When I’ve used other systems, (primarily composer), “management” of those dependencies meant your package manager will yell as you if [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Earlier posts include What is a Zipkin Trace?, Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin, and Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry. This is the most recent post in the series. In our previous OpenTelemetry articles, we gave a broad “hello [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Earlier posts include What is a Zipkin Trace?, and Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin. Later posts include OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages. In the first two articles in this series we took a crash course in instrumenting a small three service system using [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Earlier posts include What is a Zipkin Trace?. Later posts include Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry, and OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages. Last time we ran a small, three service pre-instrumented system that reported spans into Zipkin. In this [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Tracing Systems with Zipkin and OpenTracing. Later posts include Instrumenting Traces with Zipkin, Tracing NodeJS Services with Open Telemetry, and OpenTelemetry's NPM Packages. In our last series we took a look at Prometheus, its metric data types, and how it compares to the OpenTelemetry project. [...]
astormQuick link to a medium article outlining a number of different ways to run your own NPM server. Some self-hosted software, some SaaS solutions. The actual article has more context, but here are the links for (my) quick reference. MyGet NPM Org DIY NPM Git. Sinopia Cnpmjs.org Npm-register Verdaccio
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