How to set up PHP for use in a GitHub Action

To use PHP in a GitHub action there’s the magnificent setup-php action. It also allows for installing extensions and setting several php.ini directives. steps: – name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v1 – name: Setup PHP uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v1 with: php-version: '7.4' extensions: mbstring, intl #optional, setup extensions ini-values: post_max_size=256M, short_open_tag=On #optional, setup php.ini configuration coverage: xdebug #optional, setup …

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mermaid – Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown

Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs. The code for the sequence diagram at the top is this: sequenceDiagram Alice ->> Bob: Hello Bob, how are you? Bob–>>John: How about you John? Bob–x Alice: I am good thanks! Bob-x John: I am good thanks! Note right of John: …

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Use a Github repository branch or commit as a dependency in package.json

Recently I needed to test a branch of a forked GitHub repository inside a project. Instead of cloning the fork and symlinking the package locally, I installed the remote dependency directly into the project. To achieve I used the following command: Using NPM: npm install [email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname or npm install git+ssh://[email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname Using Yarn: yarn add ssh://[email protected]:user/repo.git#branchname …

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How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head

In case you want to impress your family over Christmas’/New Year’s Dinner: A so-called calendrical savant (or calendar savant) is someone who despite their intellectual disability (typically autism) can name the day of the week of a given date, or visa versa in a few seconds or even a tenth of a second (Kennedy & …

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Getting Closure on React Hooks

Ace talk by Shawn Wang: The design of React Hooks requires a good understanding of closures in JavaScript. In this talk, we’ll reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React! This will serve two purposes – to demonstrate the effective use of closures, and to show how you can build a Hooks clone in …

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Running the same Node.js code on Google Cloud Functions, App Engine, and Cloud Run

Google Cloud has a number of options to run your code. We can deploy a function to Cloud Functions, an app to App Engine, or an app with a custom runtime (a Docker container) to Cloud Run. In this post the same code snippet is deployed to all three Google Cloud Platform features. Locally the …

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Subtract

Derek Sivers, on how to improve life, not by adding things but by subtracting things: The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, are drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. The most successful people I know have a narrow focus, protect themselves against time-wasters, say …

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react-native-v8 – Opt-in V8 runtime for React Native Android

The aim of this project is to support V8 runtime for React Native. Designed as opt-in package, it should easy to integrate with existing React Native projects. After installing it, you’ll need to adjust your build.gradle files so that it includes the new runtime — a/android/app/build.gradle +++ b/android/app/build.gradle @@ -161,11 +161,18 @@ android { } …

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