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A discovery of the day. Many people know that you can define and read an object property with an arbitrary name: <?php $s = new stdClass(); $s->{'any string here'} = 123; echo $s->{'any string here'}

Opinion: Kernel#send should be deprecated and removed from future rubies. send always felt weird when I was an active ruby developer but I have never seen any strong criticisms on it. It's either an a

At least among the libraries listed on the Packagist. On this Tuesday sandfoxme/bencode was updated to 2.0 that requires PHP 8 as a minimum. While it was meant mostly as an experiment and a joke, it a

An awesome discovery of today was made in an article titled An XML library for PHP you may not hate. As an unexpected twist I really didn't hate it, in fact it helped me to solve a problem that I had.

Short answer: NO. If you know what I mean. It seems that YAML's drawbacks have created a niche for alternative better YAMLs. NEON is developed as a part of the Nette Framework and also gained some po

While I'm still delaying my position on TOML vs YAML holy war let's look at the StrictYAML. StrictYAML is a type-safe YAML parser that parses and validates a restricted subset of the YAML specificati

Just created a list of free domain name zones that still work if you need one for whatever reason.

Here is a small snippet adapted from the official instruction:

When you created a cool tool in a language you don’t like.

A small personal update about services and social networks.

arokettu (Sand Fox) is now on Keybase, an open source app for encryption and cryptography.

A small lifehack for the Gitea owners. As you may know, GitHub signs commits done with its web interface with its GPG key. These commits may end up on your Gitea server. It looks rather unconvincing:

Just finalized the dark theme for the blog. The idea is simple, use prefers-color-scheme media query and wrap dark style elements with it:

A small rant about text file format holy wars. I believe that most of the file formats that participate in these holy wars are rather good and the most of the frustration comes from their misuse.