We’ve reached the end of 2022. We’re a little bit further from the COVID-19 pandemic and I’ve travelled more this year too. A bitter-sweet year when a close friend died and I managed to catch COVID-19 again, but fortunately wasn’t as affected as last year and recovered more quickly. I …
Sometimes, I only want to display the response from a curl request if it errors – i.e. the status code is 400 or higher. With curl 7.76 or greater this is done using the –fail-with-body parameter: curl -s –fail-with-body \ https://api.example.com/foo/${id} \ -H “Content-Type: application/json” \ –data “@data.json” On success, …
I followed Maarten Balliauw’s article on setting up a pointer to my @[email protected] Mastodon account on my own domain at @[email protected]. I’m not sure how useful it is and would prefer to have my own domain as the main account. Something to think about at least. When setting up https://akrabat.com/.well-known/webfinger, …
I have recently set up a new M2 MacBook Air and as usual, installed Homebrew and then installed PHP. Homebrew is always up to date, so it installed PHP 8.1 for me. Again, as usual, I installed Xdebug using pecl install xdebug. This whirrs and clicks for a while downloading …
While editing my Hosts file in BBEdit, I wondered how hard it would be to create syntax highlighting for it. A quick google later, I discovered that I needed to create a Codeless Language Module and this is my first attempt: To install, download Hosts.plist and copy to your iCloud …
Over the weekend I released rst2pdf 0.99. The list of changes is quite long as it’s been over a year since the last release. There are some key things in this release that I’m particularly pleased about including Python 3.9 and 3.10 & Sphinx 4 support, multiple styles in the …
2021 is over! A very strange year where I have been vaccinated against COVID-19, with an additional booster, yet I caught it and took months to recover. Fortunately, I continued to take a photo every day though my Project 365 which allows me to appreciate what happened during this year …
Now that I have a TouchID enabled Mac, I want to be able use TouchID for sudo access. There’s a pam module available, so it just needs enabling: Edit /etc/pam.d/sudo Add a new line under line 1 (which is a comment) containing: auth sufficient pam_tid.so (Leave all other lines in …
When working on rst2pdf, I use pyenv as I’ve written about before. Recently, I’ve found myself needing to recreate virtualenvs for various Python versions and then recreate them to easily reset the list of packages installed into them via pip. To my my life easier, I created a script that …
One thing that’s quite convenient is to be able to throw an exception with a valid HTTP code set and have that code sent to the client. For example, you may have: throw new \RuntimeException(“Not Found”, 404); With the standard Slim 4 error handler, this response is sent to the …
I don’t do that much that’s clever with git, but I’ve found the following helpful. Automatically prune When you do a git fetch or git pull, you can ask it to remote remote tracking branches for a branch that has been removed on the remote by using the –prune flag. …
One of my clients has recently moved to AnyConnect VPN and I’ve been having routing problems with the official Mac client. As my colleagues on Linux on the project have not had these issues, I investigated and installed the OpenConnect client. These are my notes after scouring the Internet to …
When writing PHP for AWS Lambda, Bref is the way to do it. One thing I like about Bref is that you can use PSR-15 Request Handlers to respond to API Gateway HTTP events as documented in the API Gateway HTTP events section of the Bref docs. The request handler …
One thing that has annoyed me about receiving email is so-called tracker pixels. These usually 1x1px transparent images that are remotely loaded into HTML email enable the sender to track information about be. A good resource about them is No To Spy Pixels. As such I’ve tended to run my …
With the release of Big Sur, my scripts for keyboard control of macOS notification alerts stopped working. With a bit of experimentation and help from Google, I have written new ones. Closing an alert To close a notification alert on Big Sur, conceptually we want to press the X button …
I’m very happy to be speaking at The Online PHP Conference this year. As you can guess from the title, this is an online event so is easily accessible right from your desk. Sebastian, Arne, and Stefan are acknowledged experts in PHP development and so an opportunity to hear their …
As we reach the end of 2020, I continue my tradition of looking back at my year through the photos that I took as I have done every year since 2009. I have been doing a Project 365 for a good few years which acts as a diary too, so …
Since 1Password added Apple Watch unlock I’ve wondered if there are other situations when I need to enter my password where it instead require a click of my Watch instead. I recently came across an article about how to make sudo work with Touch ID, which is nice, but my …
When working on OpenWhisk, I discovered that it needed a different Java to the one I had installed. Looking around the Internet, I discovered jenv which shouldn’t have surprised me as I use pyenv and I’m aware of rbenv too. As I use Homebrew, these are the commands I used. …
I discovered recently that pecl is no longer shipped in the PHP Docker images for PHP 8. This appears to be related to the deprecation of –with-pear in PHP core as noted in issue 1029. Consider this Dockerfile: FROM php:8.0.0RC5-cli-buster RUN pecl install mongodb && docker-php-ext-enable mongodb If you build, …
