Sand Fox @sandfox@qoto.org

Unsigned is a fixed (but arbitrary) length unsigned integer arithmetic library for native PHP. It was created as a helper for the Random Extension Polyfill to remove hard dependency on the GMP. It may

Announcing my new library, a polyfill for the new sexy ext-random from PHP 8.2 that I mentioned a couple of posts ago. It requires PHP 7.1+ and the GMP extension. There will be some limitations with t

Python type hints are garbage.

It's a month before the feature freeze so we can predict what the release will look like. So far it seems like an underwhelming release without any killer features. It still has very nice language imp

I found myself in a need to filter away some licenses for my dependencies (AGPL, I'm looking at you). I've found a well known plugin for that: metasyntactical/composer-plugin-license-check. The proble

In these uneasy times I just want to remind to all these passionate activists around that there are other ethical points beyond any given "today thing" even when the today thing is truly horrible. The

I was wondering why the typical class alias boilerplate code uses this weird backslash in if (\false) like here for example. It turns out this code will wish you a happy debugging in PHP 5.3-5.6: <?ph

PHP 8.1 was released when I was suffering from COVID so I'm a bit late. <?php enum Status { case OK; case Error; } #[SomeAttr(new SomeNestedAttr())] class TestTest { public function __co

The torrent file library got its biggest update. Versions 2.2 / 3.0 added support for: BEP-5: DHT nodes list BEP-17: HTTP seed urls BEP-19: WebSeed urls BEP-47: sha1 sums, executable files, symlinks,

Nice, now I have my first CVE :D The one I've found, not the one I've created :D GitHub: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7322-jrq4-x5hf CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021

Inspired by a recent discussion in the PHP Internals, I decided to provide a userland solution. Check this: <?php $hash = hash_init('md5'); // vanilla functions: is_resource($hash); // true in PHP <

I haven't found a nice small helper for HSV/HSB color format like the one LESS has so I published my first npm package. https://sandfox.dev/js/sass-hsv.html

So... Let's compare. Syntax in General TOML syntax is sometimes described as "noisy". I really don't understand the argument. Usually the string syntax is attacked. For example StrictYAML author cal

https://rms-support-letter.github.io Please even if you do not agree with him politically but still don't like that raging mobs decide for others, sign the letter here: https://github.com/rms-support-

https://rms-support-letter.github.io Please even if you do not agree with him politically but still don't like that raging mobs decide for others, sign the letter here: https://github.com/rms-support-