April 2, 2022
New Jigsaw-based Site
My blog was always based on some home-grown CMS I built during my studies in.. checks CV 2007-2008. This was mostly fine but it had no markdown support and it was one more server to manage. I would like to try and write some more content here again so...
ReadMay 16, 2018
Web Development on Windows in 2018
I have been developing web apps on Windows for the last 10+ years. I ran PHP, Apache then Nginx, MySQL and Postgres, Redis and others. I dabbed in VMs at some point but was always dissatisfied with the experience so mostly this was all running natively...
ReadMay 15, 2018
PHP Versions Stats - 2018.1 Edition
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015, 2016.1, 2016.2, 2017.1 and 2017.2 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs...
ReadNovember 13, 2017
PHP Versions Stats - 2017.2 Edition
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015, 2016.1, 2016.2 and 2017.1 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the...
ReadMay 7, 2017
PHP Versions Stats - 2017.1 Edition
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015, 2016.1 and 2016.2 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user...
ReadNovember 18, 2016
PHP Versions Stats - 2016.2 Edition
It's stats o'clock! See 2014, 2015 and 2016.1 for previous similar posts. A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I...
ReadJune 29, 2016
Typo Squatting and Packagist
Earlier this month an article was published summarizing Nikolai Philipp Tschacher's thesis about typosquatting. In short typosquatting is a way to attack users of a package manager by registering a...
ReadJune 6, 2016
PHP Versions Stats - 2016.1 Edition
Last year I posted stats about PHP versions, and the year before as well, both time in November. However this year I can't wait for November as I am curious to explore the PHP7 uptake! A quick note...
ReadMay 31, 2016
Goddamn it.
It's not often that one messes up really bad. But today is my day apparently. TL;DR: I accidentally wiped a github organization that had a few popular repos on it. But it's all fixed now. I was...
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