Defining Python dependencies at the top of the file

Earlier in the year, I wrote about updating Flickr metadata using Python. For this script to work, I needed to install the flickrapi package first. I recently came across PEP 723 – Inline script metadata that makes this much easier for single file scripts like my sync-flickr-dates script. Essentially, we can now put a special comment block at the top of the file, before our import statements like this: # /// script # requires-python =… continue reading.

Posted on 5 November 2024 in Python Leave a comment

Selecting the correct iPhone to mirror in macOS Sequoia

There's a new feature in macOS Sequoia that allows mirroring of your iPhone to your Mac. This is a nice feature that allows you to fully interact with your iPhone as an app on you Mac's desktop. When I upgrade to Sequoia and run the iPhone Mirroring app, it selected Victory, my old iPhone 14 Pro Max which is running an older version of iOS. This didn't work and there is no way within the… continue reading.

Posted on 29 October 2024 in Computing Leave a comment

Installing PyMuPDF on a prerelease Python

I recently installed Python 3.13.0 rc2 to test rst2pdf against it and found that I couldn't install PyMyPDF which is required for the tests. $ pip install pymupdf … This is because for a pre-release version, binary wheels are not provided to PyPI for the mupdf dependency which is written in C++. Hence, the compiler needs the headers. On my Mac, I had the CPATH environment variable set to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include. For mypdf to compile, I… continue reading.

Posted on 22 October 2024 in Python, rst2pdf Leave a comment

Scripting News is 30 years old

Last week, Dave Winer posted that Scripting News turned 30. That's an amazing milestone and Dave's still writing daily. 1994 seems like quite a while ago; the web was only 3 years old! I started blogging in 2003 on a personal domain and added this blog in 2005. I don't write daily though and I tip my hat to Dave. His writing is also really really good. Scripting News was the catalyst for the creation… continue reading.

Posted on 15 October 2024 in Computing One comment so far

Running Spectral lint in Gitlab CI

In my Makefile, I check for OpenAPI spec issues with this command: docker run –rm -it -v $(PWD):/tmp stoplight/spectral lint \ –ruleset /tmp/spec/.spectral.yaml /tmp/spec/openapi.yaml When running in GitLab CI, we set the image to stoplight/spectral:latest, and override the entry point so that we can run spectral directly: openapi-lint: stage: test image: name: stoplight/spectral:latest entrypoint: [""] script: – spectral lint –ruleset spec/.spectral.yaml spec/openapi.yaml Note that GitLab's CI running automatically sets the current working directly to the… continue reading.

Posted on 8 October 2024 in Development Leave a comment

Docker Compose DNS entries

Sometimes you need some additional DNS entries in your containers. This is how to do it in compose.yaml. Internal entries Within the containers, the name of the container in compose.yaml is resolvable via DNS. Given this compose.yaml: services: web: # … app: # … networks: myapp: driver: "bridge" We can ping web from within the app container. If we need to access the web container using another domain, we add it as a network alias:… continue reading.

Posted on 1 October 2024 in Development, Docker Leave a comment

Increase truncated body in a Guzzle exception

When Guzzle throws BadResponseException, the message includes information about the method, URL response code and then a truncated part of the body. For example: "Client error: `GET https://dev.clientproject.com:4444/oauth2/authorize?client_id=983e98d2fab8756a&scope=scope&response_type=code&redirect_uri=%2Fhome&code_challenge=some_code_challenge_here` resulted in a `400 Bad Request` response: {"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"The request is missing a required parameter, includes an invalid parame (truncated…) To retrieve the full text of the body, you grab it from the response property of the exception: $body = $e->getResponse()->getBody()->getContents(); Changing the truncation limit If you want… continue reading.

Posted on 24 September 2024 in PHP Leave a comment

Fixing PhpStorm cannot find a local copy of Standard Input Code

Recently, I set up my PHP dev environment to allow me to step debug from unit tests that I run with make unit The relevant parts of Makefile look like this: # Set DEBUG=1 to enable Xdebug ifeq ($(origin DEBUG),undefined) XDEBUG := else XDEBUG := XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM endif unit: ## Run unit tests docker compose exec php bash -c "$(XDEBUG) vendor/bin/phpunit –testsuite=unit" I can now set a break point and run the unit tests with Xdebug… continue reading.

Posted on 17 September 2024 in Development, PHP Leave a comment

Installing the SQL Server PHP extension in Docker on Mac

I'm working on a project that uses MS SQL Server as its database. Recently, I noticed that the SQL Server Docker container now works with Apple Silicon Macs, so looked into setting up a PHP-FPM container with the sqlsrv extension installed. I'm noting the relevant parts of my Dockerfile for when I need them again, so this is entirely an aide-mémoire! FROM ubuntu:22.04 # Install PHP as per https://akrabat.com/7126 ## Register the Microsoft package repository… continue reading.

Posted on 10 September 2024 in Development, Docker, PHP Leave a comment

Prevent the Docker container from taking 10 seconds to stop

For one project that I'm working on the PHP-FPM-based Docker container is built from a Ubuntu container with PHP is installed into it. A little like this: FROM ubuntu:22.04 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y gnupg curl # Register the Ondrej package repo for PHP RUN mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings \ curl -sS 'https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x14aa40ec0831756756d7f66c4f4ea0aae5267a6c' | gpg –dearmor | tee /etc/apt/keyrings/ppa_ondrej_php.gpg > /dev/null \ && echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/ppa_ondrej_php.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu jammy main" >… continue reading.

Posted on 3 September 2024 in Development, Docker, PHP Leave a comment