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Overview

Welcome to machinateur.dev, my development blog and homepage.

I write about pretty much anything I've found to be poorly documented online regarding PHP and other web technologies. While I try to focus on the topics and stuff I wish I would've known earlier or that were hard to gain knowledge about, there is no shortage of bug-anecdotes and reports too.

If you'd like to know more about me and my qualification, have a look at the "About me" page.

Below you can find the three most recent blog posts...

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Mobile tab hoarders, behold: The ultimate tab-transfer tool

@machinateur Nov 10, 2024 12 min read

Mobile tab hoarders, behold: The ultimate Tab Transfer tool

Showcasing the latest release of tab-transfer:

A tool to transfer Google Chrome tabs from your Android or iPhone to your computer.

See https://github.c...

Using symfony front-controller to switch between applications

@machinateur Oct 10, 2024 7 min read

Have you ever been in a situation, where a completely separate test environment was impractical to integrate? I recently faced an interesting use-case for the symfony front-controller, which I thought was worth sharing (the technical...

How to sanitize full HTML 5 documents with HTMLPurifier

@machinateur Mar 01, 2024 15 min read

When it comes to sanitization of HTML content, HTMLPurifier (ezyang/htmlpurifier) is a popular library. Sanitization is commonly used in content management systems and really all kinds of software that deals with web content.

N...