ChatGPT, is there a seahorse emoji?
ChatGPT, is there a seahorse emoji?
Yep 🐠 — there’s a seahorse emoji: 🐎🌊 no wait, that’s not it — here’s the real one: 🐉♂️ okay okay, for real this time: 🐠 (still wrong 😆).
Using Direnv to set Herd PHP versions
I write an article for BuiltFast.dev about how I manage Herd PHP versions using Direnv.
Xterm 256 color names for Vim
Now that MacOS terminal supports 256 colors I keep needing to know the Xterm/ANSI names. I found this list—copying it here for future reference.
phpstan-sensitive-parameter
I wanted a way to automatically detect parameters in PHP functions and methods
that might contain sensitive information, so I created this PHPStan
extension to help identify parameters that should be marked with the
#[\SensitiveParameter] attribute.
Introducing BuiltFast
I still remember being 13, getting our first computer and AOL account—suddenly having a voice online and being able to use my love for technology to take an idea and create something out of nothing changed everything for me. That moment sparked a journey that eventually led to 20 years in hosting and engineering leadership.
We are destroying software
antirez, the author of Redis, had this to say about us destroying software.
~/.ssh/authorized_keys on OPNsense
Hit a gotcha on OPNsense today with ~/.ssh/authorized_keys not working as
expected.
Let’s Encrypt and Emby
I finally got around to setting up SSL with Let’s Encrypt on my Emby instance.
Public IP lookup from CloudFlare DNS
I wanted a quick way to grab my public IP address from the command line. I
found that CloudFlare’s DNS service allows this by looking up TXT records for
whoami.cloudflare.
Safe terminal escape codes
I stumbled on this article about safe terminal escape codes. It’s a good read if you’re working with terminal escape codes and want to avoid some of the pitfalls.