Author Archives: hakre

The thin line between an Invocation

Posted on 8 Aug 2023 by hakre

PHP language changes and until we understand them. Did this caught your attention? The release of PHP 8.1 is quite some days ago, like November the year before last year, and when I first learned about first class callable syntax … Continue reading →

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An Exquisite Amble through the Realm of Desugaring

Posted on 6 Aug 2023 by hakre

Bonjour Confrères and Consoeurs, Ai, Yay, Yay, wish to invite you on a captivating sojourn into the sophisticated sphere of Desugaring. In the lexicon of programming, Desugaring denotes the elegant procedure of translating more ornate linguistic constructs—dubbed as Syntactic Sugar … Continue reading →

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Git Committer Date is Author Date (Amend)

Posted on 21 Apr 2022 by hakre

Amend the last commit (HEAD) and set the committer date as the author date – as “–committer-date-is-author-date” may have done (a git-rebase option): GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=”$(git show -s –format=%at HEAD)” git commit \ –amend -C HEAD (Explainshell) Git Author Date is Committer … Continue reading →

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Expect more from you Linux Command Line

Posted on 24 Nov 2019 by hakre

Just stumbled over two nice written articles about command line usage on Linux by Robert Elder: Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (Dec 2016; by Robert Elder) An Introduction To Data Science On The Linux Command Line (Oct … Continue reading →

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Docker Run without “docker run”

Posted on 23 Oct 2019 by hakre

So there was this one question on Stackoverflow in which the OP was linking an .htaccess tester for Mod-Rewrite-Rules. Despite this being all fine I was asking myself what about really(tm) testing this? So I remembered the rewrite-log from the … Continue reading →

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Speedpills 4 Linting PHP Files in Parallel

Posted on 20 Oct 2019 by hakre

Quite some time ago I’ve already written about linting PHP files in the shell / build. Even though parallel linting is fine, when the code-base is growing larger and larger, the build becomes slower and slower. A slow build sucks. … Continue reading →

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Sed Cheatsheet

Posted on 10 Apr 2019 by hakre

Just a post about some of the sed lines I find scattered, to be extend in future edits. Merge same Lines Together $ sed ‘/^ \*$/{h;d};{H;s/.*//;x;s/^\n//}’ This sed example merges all “ *” lines that follow each other (e.g. empty … Continue reading →

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Gnome Shell Quickfix Cheatsheet

Posted on 7 Apr 2019 by hakre

Disable work-space up/down movers which block key bindings I use in Phpstorm. Important with that is that I don’t use these dynamic work-spaces at all, so making them static and only one: dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/num-workspaces 1 dconf write /org/gnome/mutter/dynamic-workspaces false … Continue reading →

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Git – Set the Author Date to The Committer Date of a Recent Commit

Posted on 1 Apr 2019 by hakre

Ah gosh that one commit has the author date just too far off, but if it would be the same as the committer date, that would be fine… Locate the commit when rebase interactively and mark for edit. Then go … Continue reading →

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Install / Update Dbeaver Community on Ubuntu

Posted on 27 Feb 2019 by hakre

Update: Turns out I was too eager to get the command line running. While it’s fine to have it perhaps for some systems, it is actually the case that Dbeaver has both a Debian repository and an Unbuntu PPA as … Continue reading →

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Hunting the Keyboard Shortcut

Posted on 3 Dec 2018 by hakre

Recently while in the mood I decided to upgrade my Thinkpad X280  from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (for which it had the approval) to more current Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. That also meant that I’m back on Gnome Shell which I’m not … Continue reading →

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Compile ripgreg (rp) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Posted on 22 Oct 2017 by hakre

Just a quick note to myself on how to compile the insanely fast rg utility from git sources w/ AVX and SIMD activated. Clone from sources: git clone git@github.com:BurntSushi/ripgrep.git –depth 1 && cd ripgrep Install rustup to be able to compile … Continue reading →

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Using Assertions with (Legacy) PHP Code

Posted on 4 Sep 2017 by hakre

While it was not much advised to use assertions (the assert PHP language construct) prior to PHP 7 due to the fact that it actually eval’ed a string’ed code, these days are gone. This is probably a lesser known fact with … Continue reading →

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Lazy Loading in PHP Object Composition

Posted on 15 Aug 2017 by hakre

When it comes to nicely performing PHP scripts (yes in PHP these are all scripts as PHP code is run-time) there is a nice addition since PHP 7 named the Null coalescing operator which plays very well with the basic nature … Continue reading →

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Make any Composer Command Segfault

Posted on 14 Mar 2017 by hakre

This is from the shock your co-worker department: There is an easy one-liner to make any composer based project spit “Segmentation fault (core dumped)” regardless of the Composer command entered:

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History of the PHP date timezone settings warning

Posted on 3 Jan 2016 by hakre

Now with the newborn elefant PHP 7 in the herd, there is a lift on the date timezone settings warning: it has just been removed. That means, it’s now that you need to take care in the server’s configuration that … Continue reading →

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Linting PHP Files in Parallel on Travis

Posted on 10 Nov 2015 by hakre

With PHP 7 around the corner here is a small tip how you can at least lint the code in your project to be PHP 7 syntax compatible. That allows you to easier obtain forward-compatible PHP code with ease. So … Continue reading →

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The SimpleXMLElement Magic Wonder World in PHP

Posted on 27 Mar 2015 by hakre

PHP’s Simplexml ships with a lot of magic to simplify access to an XML documents element and attribute node values. Some criticize this and suggest to use the DOM library instead. The DOM library on the other hand, even it … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu Default Browser

Posted on 17 Mar 2015 by hakre

The system-settings don’t reflect the whole picture in Kubuntu. Settings can be done via the command-line. Here exemplary to chromium: I had an issue with this for quite some time, I finally found the answer via “opening web link from … Continue reading →

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Installing PDF Printer under Kubuntu with AppArmor and Samba

Posted on 9 Feb 2015 by hakre

It actually should be as little as installing cups-pdf (CUPS-PDF (Ubuntuusers German)): Then opening Printers in system preferences did show the new printer. However printing a test-page didn’t work. I then just followed the tail of the syslog: to find … Continue reading →

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