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simonrjones

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Helping clients succeed with digital at Studio 24. Trustee Cambridge Film Festival. Has a passion for the web, PHP, content and accessibility. Twitter: https://mastodon.social/@simonrjones

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mikestreety, (edited ) to php
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I'm looking for a solution to branch-based previews for a / stack. We have nearly 60 sites we want to set this up for (a lot of services I find either charge $1000s or don't even support that many).

I don't want anything fancy, I don't need to edit in the browser. I would like to push a branch to gitlab and have the option to spin up an environment to preview.

I have considered doing it myself, but I was hoping to not have to support my own infrastructure.

simonrjones,
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@mikestreety have you looked at Symfony Cloud? I think it has that feature https://symfony.com/cloud/

simonrjones, to random
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We're looking for a mid-level project manager to join the wonderful team at @studio24 to work with us on managing digital projects for non-profit, gov and other clients. Full/part-time, £35-£42K salary, UK only.

Find out more at https://www.studio24.net/careers/project-manager/ and please do share #jobs

koalie, (edited ) to random
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#blog RIP Laurence Victoria Taranto Mercier

My mum passed away on Thursday 25 April 2024. She was found on Monday 29 April. She died in her bed, in her sleep, and didn’t suffer. I don’t remember when I last spoke to her. Probably over a year ago. The last time I wrote about her, 8 months ago, to put into words that I had finally given up hope to get along with her, we had stopped speaking to each other 6 or so months prior.

https://blog.koalie.net/2024/05/12/rip-laurence-victoria-taranto-mercier/

simonrjones,
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@koalie sorry for your loss Coralie, that’s a very moving post. Take care

koalie, to Japan
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My favourite random street photography scenes from today 😀
#japan #hiroshima
#KoalieTravel

An old black steam locomotive with a child climbing on its exterior looking at the camera.
A reflective glass surface showing the overlay of an interior space with a small poodle being groomed, and the exterior view of people walking outside, with some cherry blossoms visible in the background.
Two people sitting by the water's edge, one holding an umbrella and the other gazing over the water.

simonrjones,
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@koalie it looks amazing, hope you’re having a good time!

simonrjones, to php
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Anyone use Lando for local development environments? Am thinking of switching to it for our team. We work on a mix of WordPress, Laravel & Symfony projects. https://lando.dev/

#php #wordpress #laravel #symfony #localDev #localDevelopment

Edent, to random
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I thought I had a clever idea. Turns out it was stupid.

On my webserver, I created a file called test.html?a=b to simulate a dynamic page on a static site.

But, of course, it can only be accessed as test.html%3Fa%3Db

I wonder if there's a sensible way around that without monkeying around with .htaccess?

simonrjones,
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@Edent can you just name the file test.html and access it via test.html?a=b

It should still work. I can’t think of a way to make your first example work without webserver conf (alias or mod_rewrite)

simonrjones,
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@Edent you may be able to use JS to do that, but I’d just write it in PHP. Otherwise some webserver config to forward those requests to the right file may work

Meyerweb, to random
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I’m holding off making snap decisions until I learn more, but if this comes to fruition as reported, I may have to migrate blogging software and quite probably hosts for the first time in over two decades.

And as someone who values in situ comments on posts, and also doesn’t want to outsource that to a third party, I’ll face a bit of a challenge. https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

simonrjones,
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@Meyerweb I’d like to understand this better too. Reports indicate this only affects self hosted WordPress sites if you use Jetpack.

Crell, to php
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And of course, this site features a half dozen languages and their package system... But forgets about .

Even if you don't use PHP yourself, ignoring one of the largest and best designed package systems (/) is just dumb.

https://deps.dev/

simonrjones,
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@mwop @Crell I emailed Google to suggest adding PHP. Seems crazy not to include it on what looks like a useful site.

Surprised Packagist isn’t mentioned on php.net - how does one go about making a suggestion for changing that? Or is it all tied up in politics?

simonrjones,
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@Crell @mwop certainly makes it harder for new people to learn things! I would call Composer the standard now, surely…

simonrjones,
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@derickr @Crell @mwop what’s happening with PECL?

simonrjones, to tech
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Didn’t know about this delivery driver strike, I hope the media cover it more. Another example of the dark side of tech & the seeming convenience it gives us.

Delivery drivers often seem a nuisance on the streets, but low wages and long hours starts to tell another story..
“The only way to make more money is to ride faster, which means taking more risks.” #uber #GigEconomy #tech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/food-delivery-drivers-valentines-day-strike-deliveroo-uber-eats?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

simonrjones, to Magic
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The staircase at the Magic Circle. A fascinating place, next to Euston station, where you can catch some wonderful close up magic shows https://themagiccircle.co.uk/shows/

simonrjones, to wordpress
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Spotted WordPress is adding an autoloader to their codebase which seems a good thing. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/02/01/proposal-implement-a-php-autoloader-in-wordpress-core/

It reminded me of the issues of conflicting package versions for WP plugins that use Composer (e.g. 2 plugins use different versions of a package, first one loads wins).

I see Yoast recommending PHP Scoper but there must be a better way than duplicating classes? What do other CMS vendors do to help plugins manage Composer dependencies safely? https://yoast.com/developer-blog/safely-using-php-dependencies-in-the-wordpress-ecosystem/ #wordpress #php

Edent, to microsoft
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🆕 blog! “Safelinks are a fragile foundation for publishing”

Microsoft loves you and wants to protect you. So every time you receive an email with a link in it, Microsoft Outlook helpfully rewrites it so that it goes through their "safelinks" system. Safelinks allow your administrator, or someone at Microsoft, to stop you visiting a link which is malicious or s…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/safelinks-are-a-fragile-foundation-for-publishing/
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simonrjones,
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@Edent agree that is not ideal to use Safe Links in references. A “where does this URL point” service would be handy. I was thinking of building something like that for our own work. It’s often useful to check where a URL goes & its headers - browsers often cache this so can be hard to test when things change.

simonrjones,
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@Edent I meant where a URL redirects to.

We often have a need to check URLs for things like redirects and bypass the browser cache. Easily done on the command line but I’ve been thinking about a simple tool to help others in the agency.

I don’t know if a safe link is a straight redirect though.

simonrjones, to random
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All Quiet on the Western Front is quite a sobering film. Very good, but a senseless ending (which is the point).

simonrjones,
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@koalie I do not blame you, not an easy watch for a teenager. My wife Kate has no interest in watching it either. I’d not seen the earlier films before so was interesting to watch, spread over a few evenings - too much to watch in one go really.

koalie, to random
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s/2023/2024/G

simonrjones,
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@koalie happy new year!

andy, to random
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New on the blog: Wrapping up 2023

https://andy-bell.co.uk/wrapping-up-2023/

simonrjones,
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@andy nice write up Andy. Agree on how slow work has been this year (things picked up for us a lot in December). All sounds very positive for Set Studio - I hope you have a great 2024!

simonrjones, to php
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I had a really good time at in Brussels last week and wrote up my thoughts https://www.studio24.net/blog/symfonycon-brussels-2023/

A few things that were talked about: the importance of talking about mental health, supporting the open source ecosystem (e.g. Foundation), the challenges and benefits of remote working, how to audit your software supply chain, open source search with Meilisearch, and a really fun closing session by Ryan Weaver on and a live demo with and .

simonrjones, to random
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I'm really proud that @studio24 has won a Gaddy for the @w3c website redesign project! My colleague Emma is there to accept the award in person at the ceremony tonight. 🎉😄 https://gaad.foundation/what-we-do/gaadys

Edent, to firefox
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🆕 blog! “Firefox might remember old 2FA logins”

I'm big enough to admit when I make a mistake. A few days ago I had a bit of a rant on Mastodon about how PayPal was encouraging browsers to remember 2FA codes. I'd tried to log in to PayPal, went to enter my 2FA code and was presented with this: But, this isn't PayPal's […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/10/firefox-might-remember-old-2fa-logins/
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#2fa #firefox

simonrjones,
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@Edent interesting, almost feels like a Firefox bug. Glad it works as expected for new one time codes

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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What’s the oldest domain name that you personally own? Mine is littlehart.net, which I believe I registered sometime in 1998

simonrjones,
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@grmpyprogrammer studio24.net April 1999!

Edent, (edited ) to random
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The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank

The UK faces an epidemic of telephone scams. Fraudsters are constantly calling people up pretending to be their bank. But how can you be sure the number displayed on your screen in genuine? You can't. The telecom system is hopelessly insecure and shouldn't be trusted for anything more complicated than dialling the speaking clock.

Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/the-74000-numbers-of-barclays-bank/

#bank #phone #security

simonrjones,
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@Edent having a website to check a bank phone number is a good idea, but that seems a mighty strange way to do it! Feels like security issue exposing all those phone numbers like that…

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