Method Calls with Arbitrary Names

Jul 24, 2020
A discovery of the day. Many people know that you can define and read an object property with an arbitrary name:
```
<?php

$s = new stdClass();
$s->{'any string here'} = 123;
echo $s->{'any string here'}; // 123
```
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Category: PHP
Kernel#send Should Be Removed

Jul 24, 2020

Opinion: Kernel#send should be deprecated and removed from future rubies.

send always felt weird when I was an active ruby developer but I have never seen any strong criticisms on it. It's either an attack on all family of send-like calls or a fierce defence that "using send is not a bad practice". Only some style guides argue against send because it may overlap with existing methods. This post was written after reading one of defences.

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Category: Ruby
I released the first PHP 8 library ever

Jul 3, 2020

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 Stringable interface and remove some old compatibility handling thanks to mbstring.func_overload being finally removed.

Category: PHP • Tags: php 8
sabre/xml

Jun 10, 2020

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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Category: PHP • Tags: sabre/dav, xml
Is NEON a Better YAML?

May 29, 2020

Short answer: NO. If you know what I mean.

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Category: Misc • Tags: neon, yaml
What's Wrong with StrictYAML

May 29, 2020

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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Category: Misc • Tags: strictyaml, yaml
Free Domain Names

Apr 7, 2020

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.

Category: Misc • Tags: dns

Install Composer in Docker

Apr 2, 2020

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.

Method Calls with Arbitrary Names

Kernel#send Should Be Removed

I released the first PHP 8 library ever

sabre/xml

Is NEON a Better YAML?

What's Wrong with StrictYAML

Free Domain Names

Install Composer in Docker

I Don't Like JavaScript

Small Personal Update