Notes by Dan Untenzu (pixelbrackets)

Putting inactive open source software into maintenance mode

Published 2022-06-08

Moving inactive open source projects maintenance mode helps to satisfy expectations of maintainers and users

Pass a specific PHP version to subscripts in a CLI call

Published 2021-08-06

Developers who use several PHP versions must ensure that CLI calls start subscripts in child processes with the desired version as well

How to store Personal Access Tokens in Composer

Published 2021-05-26

How to manage access tokens for GitLab and GitHub in Composer on your local machine, stages and CI

Distribute Patches to many Git repositories with Patchbot

Published 2020-09-10

Patchbot is a tool to automate the distribution of patches to your own Git repositories and helps to reduce technical debt

PaaS for PHP microservices - Heroku, Dokku, AWS, DIY

Published 2020-05-02

PaaS are great for rapid PHP app development, but not all are good fit for microservices

My personal paperwork setup

Published 2020-04-05

I build myself a convenient and effectice setup to organize paperwork at home

Minimal PHP request handler

Published 2020-02-29

WaterPipe and Slim are effective request and response handlers for minimal PHP apps

Awesome Open Source Badges for Git README files

Published 2019-04-19

Badges are a pretty way to display concise project information in a README.

Install Redmine as Issue Tracking Service

Published 2019-01-25

ITS tools help a lot to collect and organize tasks - I share a shortlist of self-hosted solutions and what to consider when installing Redmine

Cookie consent

Published 2018-05-04

The EU cookie law encourages website operators to reconsider how they use cookies

Send JSON requests and get JSON responses with Guzzle

Published 2018-04-08

Guzzle is great PHP package to send and receive JSON data from a RESTful webservice.

Deploy a PHP app to Heroku cloud in minutes

Published 2018-03-16

Use Git to deploy your app to Heroku and let the service provide the required server architecture automatically

Run scripts & external tools in PhpStorm

Published 2018-03-08

It is easy to execute any bash script or external tool within PhpStorm to enhance development

HTML5 Example Template

Published 2017-09-29

I made a single-serving site to get a simple HTML5 template wherever I want to

Handle monolithic Git repositories with Composer

Published 2017-06-06

Use the »path« type in Composer to handle monolithic Git repositories

Flexible logging with TYPO3

Published 2017-02-16

TYPO3 offers a simple API to create a flexible logging setup

Bulk compress images with commandline tools

Published 2017-02-15

Bulk compress images with Trimage and TinyPNG to speed up page requests

Schedule backups for websites hosted on uberspace

Published 2016-04-03

Use a cron and a shell script to backup a website hosted on uberspace automatically

Simple PHP script to test and use cURL

Published 2016-03-05

I wrote a simple PHP script to test and use cURL

Git Cheat Sheet

Published 2015-11-01

I made a comprehensive cheat sheet for daily work with Git commands

Git aliases for a better workflow

Published 2014-10-03

I have a set of aliases which speed up and simplify my daily workflow a lot

My favourite bash aliases

Published 2014-10-02

My favourite bash aliases help me to shortcut commands I can't or don't want to remember

Best practice commit message format

Published 2013-03-15

Write useful Git commit messages by following an appropriate message format

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