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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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PHP 8.3 and Imagick extension inside Docker

@machinateur Nov 21, 2024 4 min read

Adding ext-imagick to a PHP 8.3 Docker image, from source.

The situation

I recently found myself setting up a new PHP project, with its own simple Docker image.

What I already knew:

Apache 2 will likely be th...

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

@machinateur Nov 10, 2024 12 min read

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.com/machinateur/tab-transfer/releases/tag/0.5.1 (*) for more informa...

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...