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I released the first PHP 8 library ever
At least among the libraries listed on the Packagist. On this Tuesday sandfoxme/bencode was updated to 2.0 that requires PHP 8 as a minimum. While it was meant mostly as an experiment and a joke, it allowed me to try some new features like
Stringableinterface and remove some old compatibility handling thanks tombstring.func_overloadbeing finally removed. -
sabre/xml
An awesome discovery of today was made in an article titled An XML library for PHP you may not hate. As an unexpected twist I really didn't hate it, in fact it helped me to solve a problem that I had. It is called sabre/xml and it's a part of the sabre/dav project.
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Is NEON a Better YAML?
Short answer: NO. If you know what I mean.
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What's Wrong with StrictYAML
While I'm still delaying my position on TOML vs YAML holy war let's look at the StrictYAML.
StrictYAML is a type-safe YAML parser that parses and validates a restricted subset of the YAML specification.
Seems great but let's look at the removed features list, Implicit Typing to be precise:
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Free Domain Names
Just created a list of free domain name zones that still work if you need one for whatever reason.
You can find it here: freedomainzones.netlify.app.
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Install Composer in Docker
Here is a small snippet adapted from the official instruction:
RUN wget -q -O /tmp/composer.sig https://composer.github.io/installer.sig && \ php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', '/tmp/composer-setup.php');" && \ php -r '$expected = file_get_contents("/tmp/composer.sig"); $actual = hash_file("sha384", "/tmp/composer-setup.php"); exit(intval(!hash_equals($expected, $actual)));' && \ php /tmp/composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer && \ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer && \ rm /tmp/composer-setup.php /tmp/composer.sig
It doesn't require a script file, doesn't deal with environment variables, and doesn't depend on the shell.
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I Don't Like JavaScript
When you created a cool tool in a language you don't like.
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Small Personal Update
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GitHub Signatures in Gitea
A small lifehack for the Gitea owners. As you may know, GitHub signs commits done with its web interface with its GPG key. These commits may end up on your Gitea server. It looks rather unconvincing:
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Dark Theme for the Blog