Pragmatism in the real world
We've reached the end of 2022. We're a little bit further from the COVID-19 pandemic and I've travelled more this year too. A bitter-sweet year when a close friend died and I managed to catch COVID-19 again, but fortunately wasn't as affected as last year and recovered more quickly. I continued to take a photo every day though my Project 365 which allows me to appreciate what happened during this year of my life. January… continue reading.
Sometimes, I only want to display the response from a curl request if it errors – i.e. the status code is 400 or higher. With curl 7.76 or greater this is done using the –fail-with-body parameter: curl -s –fail-with-body \ https://api.example.com/foo/${id} \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ –data "@data.json" On success, the return code ($?) is 0 and on failure the body is output with the return code set to 22. Prior to 7.76, you can… continue reading.
I followed Maarten Balliauw's article on setting up a pointer to my @akrabat@phpc.social Mastodon account on my own domain at @rob@akrabat.com. I'm not sure how useful it is and would prefer to have my own domain as the main account. Something to think about at least. When setting up https://akrabat.com/.well-known/webfinger, I realised that it was being served with a Content-Type of application/octet-stream, when it should be application/json. To fix this, I added this to my… continue reading.
I have recently set up a new M2 MacBook Air and as usual, installed Homebrew and then installed PHP. Homebrew is always up to date, so it installed PHP 8.1 for me. Again, as usual, I installed Xdebug using pecl install xdebug. This whirrs and clicks for a while downloading and compiling the xdebug.so and then fails with: rob@ardent ~ $ pecl install xdebug downloading xdebug-3.1.5.tgz … Starting to download xdebug-3.1.5.tgz (232,070 bytes) … Build… continue reading.
While editing my Hosts file in BBEdit, I wondered how hard it would be to create syntax highlighting for it. A quick google later, I discovered that I needed to create a Codeless Language Module and this is my first attempt: To install, download Hosts.plist and copy to your iCloud Drive's BBEdit/Application Support/Language Modules directory, restart BBEdit and you're done. I've kept it really simple and just highlight comments and the IP address, but it… continue reading.
Over the weekend I released rst2pdf 0.99. The list of changes is quite long as it's been over a year since the last release. There are some key things in this release that I'm particularly pleased about including Python 3.9 and 3.10 & Sphinx 4 support, multiple styles in the class directive and the ability to specify background images in the raw:: pdf directive. There's also a number of bug fixes, particular to math rendering… continue reading.
