Sebastian Kurfürst

Sebastian und Tobias im Gespräch darüber, wie ein technisches Konzept geschaffen sein soll, so dass es einen möglichst großen Mehrwert hat.

I finally had some time to play around with Nix - the immutable package manager and build system. This was on my agenda since a long time, but I finally took the plunge on my M1 OSX system. I by no means understand Nix fully yet, but making progress and it is usable to me already.

SPX is a profiling extension for PHP that allows you to profile your PHP scripts and get detailed insights into their performance. It differentiates itself from other similar extensions by being totally free, simple to use, and capable of collecting a wide range of metrics. With SPX, you can easily profile your sc

Bin ich auf dem richtigen Server? Teil 2

I've just recently stumbled over a composer configuration which changed my life (for the better): preferred-install source.

On one of our sites where we employ "classical" deployment (without docker containers), we have found weird problems related to the deployment: Sometimes, the updated markup was not delivered by the server, but the server was still delivering the old markup. This story is a deep-dive of what we found, what we learned and how we finally fixed it. In the end, it's just a tiny NGINX configuration change ;-)

Wir haben uns dazu entschieden, keine Pakete durch die Länder zu schicken, sondern etwas für uns alle zu tun. Getreu dem Motto „Spenden statt Schenken" haben wir in Kooperation mit Wilderness International ein Stück Regenwald in Peru gekauft und so vor der Abholzung geschützt.

Ein Trick für iTerm2, wie man visuell merkt, ob man auf dem lokalen Server oder per SSH unterwegs ist.

Upgrading React Native projects in practice is not so easy - our workflow makes it well workable.

Longer-running processing loops can be hard to test - using Generators is an unconventional but useful way to suspend and resume processing, leading to easy and expressive tests.

For me, this book is relevant because it frames abstract concepts very clearly, attaches concise names to them, and shows their implications. It sets the stage for a discussion about software design - independent from specific languages or frameworks. This review summarizes my take aways.