1 comment A week has passed since this year’s Free Society Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, where last weekend I travelled to speak about "The case for Free Software Crowdfunding". Several talks have stayed with me, and crept into my thoughts over the last seven days.… Read the rest
0 comments Is PHP’s composer package manager pulling in dependencies successfully on your development machine but failing on your continuous integration server? In my case, Drone.io, the young, ludicrously simple CI platform, was failing in setup of a PHP project because of strange 404 “Not found” errors.… Read the rest
9 comments Today my new Thinkpad bluetooth keyboard arrived. It’s beautiful; I’m thrilled. It’s such a better companion for my XPS 15 9530 laptop than my old Penclick K2 the two don’t even compare.
NFC comes built in to the new keyboard, but unfortunately Gnu/Linux doesn’t support NFC well yet.… Read the rest
8 comments As you may know, I’m (still) in love with Git. One of the reasons is it’s power, but, occasionally, that power allows you to shoot the rest of your team in the chest. Or delete their commits and wipe them from history (which feels about the same).… Read the rest
2 comments The release of PHP 5.6 is imminent, and it’s about to bring a little-known debugging tool into the limelight and package repositories everywhere. Here’s a quick-start guide to making phpdbg useful.
