Sand Fox @sandfox@qoto.org

A feature that may be desired for some anti-V2 trackers. While I would like to see the torrent community going the other way around, some trackers choose not to allow version 2 torrents and sometimes

A followup for the previous post: the minimum required PHP versions in packages on the Packagist. PHP version: number of packages. 5.3: 31'400 7.1: 28'522 7.0: 26'223 5.4: 25'239 7.4: 23'736 7.2: 22

As a library developer I often face a problem what should be a minimum PHP requirement. Here are some of my principles. 1. Review what interpreter versions are suitable Not all PHP versions are crea

A thing that was not obvious to me and relatively hard to google was a way to run a 32-bit docker image in the GitLab CI. Docker itself has --platform param but it is not exposed to the .gitlab-ci.yml

I created a UUID and ULID library with Doctrine support. Well, who didn't :D The main scenario for myself was a possible migration for a project from ULIDs to UUIDs since UUIDs got a little bit of sup

This is a short howto for people who already know how to compile PHP. TL;DR: CFLAGS='-m32' PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --host=i886 --prefix=$HOME/Software/php32 --exec-prefix=$HOME/

It started with the firmware failing to update because the EFI partition was low on free space. (Dell, why do you need 70 MB on the EFI while also making it as small as 150 MB at the same time?) Well,

It started with the firmware failing to update because the EFI partition was low on free space. (Dell, why do you need 70 MB on the EFI while also making it as small as 150 MB at the same time?) Well,

I'm continuing to publish useless nih junk on the Packagist: arokettu/arithmetic-parser: A very configurable arithmetic parser and calculator. You can define your own set of functions and operators.

"GPL incompatibility" of a FOSS license is not a problem of the incompatible license, it's the problem of the GPL. Most permissive licenses and file-based copyleft licenses can be used together in a p

Just finished moving my old composer packages from sandfoxme/* to arokettu/*. Full list: composer-viz (old, new): the only one I moved a year ago bencode (old, new) monsterid (old, new) phpstorm-meta

While the original way is still valid, in Docker it's now easier to copy the Composer executable from its Docker image. COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer or for PH

TL;DR: Don't use LGPL, avoid library-based copyleft in general. The closest acceptable no-brainer replacement should be GNU GPL with Classpath Exception, but the concept of library-based copyleft itse

I have recently found myself in a situation when 3 out of 4 libraries that I used to work with Excel files were abandoned: akeneo-labs/spreadsheet-parser (streaming reader) had no commits in 4 years

A small step for the community may still be a huge leap for specific people, like Pierrick Charron and Sergey Panteleev who became this version release managers. I would like to congratulate them with

I have re-tested all my libraries for compatibility with PHP 8.2. Luckily due to small amount of changes and, well, me not using some bad practices, they are all compatible with the new release. Only

PHP 8.2 has been released. It's a relatively small release by new features. I already covered some of them. Here are things that I would like to highlight: Random Extension I already covered that in