derickr

derickr, 1 year ago to php

📰 New blog post: "Xdebug at 21": https://derickrethans.nl/xdebug-21.html #php #xdebug #OpenSource

derickr, 2 months ago to random

📹 I've made a new video on learning how to create PHP extensions.

☠️ In part 1, we're going to create the skeleton: https://youtu.be/WjbKYHzoKM0

📜 I am turning this into a textual tutorial too in the (near) future.

derickr, 7 months ago to php

:xdebug: I've spent more time optimising Xdebug's debugger. This time I focussed on breakpoints.

🚫 Before these changes, Xdebug would check after every statement for line breakpoints.

✔️ Now, it only checks for them, if we already have concluded that the function contains any breakpoint.

🎈 This means that setting a breakpoint incurs a small performance impact, while almost no impact exists while running your PHP code.

🆕 To sponsor my work: https://xdebug.org/support

#php #xdebug #debugging

derickr, 9 months ago to random

If you're in the UK and are looking for a gig doing PHP/Laravel, deployments, and GIS, the #SlowWays team is hiring a 4 days a week person at £40k: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/sayb9vvbjx

SlowWays is a project to create a walking network for the whole of the UK. I've walked many of their routes!

#GetFediHired

derickr, 4 days ago to php

It's PHP's birthday! 29, years old today.

#php

A cake cut out a slice off, and the big side taken.

derickr, 9 months ago to php

🎉 I've just released @Xdebug 3.3.0alpha2, with preliminary support for PHP 8.3.

🔗 https://xdebug.org/announcements/2023-09-06

:xdebug: It also adds some functionality to xdebug_get_function_stack(), more about that later!

🐛 Uploading it to PECL didn't work, as due to an upgrade, MySQL now (finally) rejects characters that the table charset wouldn't allow, instead of just corrupting it. That took two hours to debug and fix. PECL will warn now → https://github.com/php/web-pecl/commit/cf57e9370820fa7738c782a751b47de713e0c3be

#PHP #Xdebug #PECL #Debug #NewRelease

derickr, 2 months ago to ai

I've been thinking, and I find it incomprehensible that "Big Tech" is totally fine with ingesting copyrighted data with specific requirements in their licenses (such as attribution), while at the same time you know that if you try to even incorporate a single line of their code (or headers) in your (open source) software you'll get their lawyers in your neck.

#RespectLicenses #AI #OpenSource

derickr, 8 months ago to php

📽️ I have made a new video!

Xdebug 3: Using the DBGp Proxy, which explains debugging with remote development servers.

https://youtu.be/_3RkGZK-UC8

#Debugging #PHP #Proxy #XdebugCloud

derickr, 8 months ago to php

📰 New blog post: "Xdebug Update: September 2023": https://derickrethans.nl/xdebug-update-september-2023.html

#php #xdebug #OpenSource

derickr, 1 month ago to random

👋 For those who are interested in writing PHP extensions, and the tutorial I did yesterday at #phptek, I also have these as a video online on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbKYHzoKM0&list=PLg9Kjjye-m1hW4z0J-546qaFpysjlo27x

🎥 There will be more episodes coming soon™.

derickr, 10 months ago to php

New blogpost: "Concealed Code": https://derickrethans.nl/concealed-code.html #blogpost #php #xdebug

derickr, 2 months ago to random

I still own phpvikinger.{com,net,org} — and they're due to expire in a few weeks.

If a PHP-er would be interested, I'd be more than happy to transfer them. I've no use for them any more.

🪓

derickr, 9 months ago to random

I have upgraded Debian on {people,talks,gtk}.php.net to Buster — solving the problem with SSL certificate issues.

I also had to upgrade PHP — it was running PHP 5.6 (now 7.3, as that comes with Debian Buster).

I also had to upgrade the globally installed PEAR packages (notably XML_Parser) as that was using PHP 4 syntax in the form of:

$x = &new …

The sites should all work now, but let me know if there are still issues with gkt.php.net, talks.php.net, or people.php.net!

derickr, 9 months ago to random

I've just contributed to #Tusky, as that is my client of choice. Consider supporting them too — every little helps! https://opencollective.com/tusky

derickr, 3 months ago to random

A while ago, somebody on here was asking for help with Mastodon/ActivityPub signatures, but I can't find the post or person.

I can probably now offer some help.

derickr, 23 days ago to random

Looks like PHP London will finally meet again on the first Thursday of June!

Hosted by Vonage with a talk by @SecondeJ !

🐘 https://www.meetup.com/phplondon/events/301132866/

derickr, 9 months ago to random

A cracking post from Heather Burns on the relentless pushing of the Online "Safety" Bill, without it being fit for purpose.

https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/01/thats-no-moonshot/

#UKPol #OSB #OnlineSafetyBill

derickr, 2 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

📹 I've published a new video, explaining the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker line simplification algorithm.

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbVXh5VtxKw

#GIS #Algorithms

derickr, 5 months ago to random

If you want to learn something about how to not create software, have a read of paragraph 251 in https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bates-v-post-office-appendix-1-1.pdf

This is a court document from the Post Office scandal's litigation, in which post masters were held liable for accounting losses due to (very) broken software (more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal).

This whole document is a fascinating read of failure in the software, and the criminal cover-up that followed.

#PostOfficeScandal #SofwareDevelopment

derickr, 3 months ago to random

Who's looking forward to @dpc_ibuildings in Amsterdam next week?

#DPC24

derickr, 2 months ago to php

📹 I've published the next video on learning how to create PHP extensions.

📚 In part 2, we're importing the library, and creating a stub file: https://youtu.be/8N8Rk-BE0d4

#php #extensions #tutorial

derickr, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to space

🪐 I have recently made some changes to https://ciclops.org — the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations after having made a static site of it two years ago ( https://derickrethans.nl/concerning-cassini.html ).

🕶️ While doing that, I found some stereographic images. The ones you need 3D glasses for.

🍀 Luckily I have a pair on my desk, so I could see a crater on Rhea in 3D, and the moon Pan!

Isn't that awesome?

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

#NASA #Saturn #Cassini #StereoImage #Astrodon #3D

derickr, 1 month ago to photography

📷 People and ships carved in rocks

🚩 Hoppestadvegen, Skien, Norge

#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #Stoneage #Rockcarvings

derickr, 5 months ago to random

Literally the first song BBC 1 plays in 2024 is Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. Good job!

#HappyNewYear #RickRoll

derickr, 3 months ago to photography

📷 Wayland's Smithy

🚩 The Ridgeway, Vale of White Horse, United Kingdom

#StandingStoneSunday #Photography #