PHPStan gained a milestone release at the start of November 2021 with new features, extra rules, and many performance optimizations. It means the leading PHP static analyzer is now considered to be stable and comes with a backwards compatibility promise for future updates. As it’s a major semver bump, PHPStan 1.0 also brings along some breaking changes which could affect your existing scans. These include extra rules and some replaced or removed config parameters....
Chromebooks are great for anyone who uses them: they turn on in an instant, have great battery life, and updating them is a breeze. But, the day will come when your Chromebook stops getting updates from Google. What do you do then? Google is upfront with its update policy: you can see the exact month and year a Chromebook or Chromebox will stop receiving updates. Most Chromebooks still have a long life ahead of them, but Google has started cutting off some of the oldest models already....
We’ve written about using GNU Screen to multitask in the Linux terminal in the past. GNU Screen is the granddaddy of these programs, but tmux and dvtm+dtach are other solutions you may prefer. Tmux is an improved rewrite of GNU Screen. Dvtm is a console multiplexer inspired by tiling window managers, and dtach adds the ability to detach from and reattach to dvtm sessions. Tmux Use this command to install tmux on Ubuntu:...
Whatever you think of it, Windows 8 isn’t just a new interface slapped on top of Windows 7. Windows 8 has seen a lot of security improvements, including an integrated antivirus, an application reputation system, and protection from boot-time rootkits. There are also quite a few low-level security improvements under the hood. Microsoft hasn’t spelled out all of them, but Windows 8 manages memory in a more secure way and includes features that make security vulnerabilities harder to exploit....
Docker has transformed software development with its simple model of containerization that lets you rapidly package workloads into reproducible units. While Docker’s easy to get to grips with, there’s more nuance to its usage than is always apparent. This is especially true when you’re looking to optimize your Docker usage to increase efficiency and performance. Here are seven of the most common Docker anti-patterns you should look for and avoid....
1. Clean the Vents and Fans, and Use Hard Surfaces If your laptop is now louder than it was in the past running the same software, there’s a chance that your fans and vents are clogged with dust. This means the computer is pushing up fan speeds to compensate. The answer is to clean the dust out of your laptop. If your vents aren’t clogged by dust, you may be blocking them some other way....
The context menu in Windows provides a convenient place to start programs, access websites, and open folders. There are several ways to add programs to the menu including a registry method and a free tool. We’ve found another free tool, called Right Click Context Menu Adder, that allows you to add more than just programs to the desktop context menu and the folders context menu. It allows you to add folders, web addresses, and files to the menus, as well as programs....
Note: The snipping tool doesn’t exist on every version of Vista. To turn it on, you’ll have to go to “Turn Windows features on or off” in Control Panel, and check the box for the Tablet PC utilities. The only problem with this tool is that there’s no hotkey to bring up the window. But we’ll fix that… Bring up the Start Menu, and then click on All Programs. Click the Accessories folder, and you’ll see the Snipping Tool....
Like most everything else in Windows, there’s a quick way you can do so in the registry by backing up a single key, which we’ll cover for you today. What Are We Backing Up Again? For those of you that don’t know what we’re talking about, if you go to the Security tab under Internet Options, you’ll see a Trusted sites icon in the list. Selecting that icon and then the Sites button will bring up a dialog which will allow you to add or remove sites from the zone....
Disabling Aero in Windows 8 If you’re trying to disable Aero in Windows 8, you’ll be interested to know that there’s no reason to, because they’ve disabled the Aero transparency theme by default anyway. So there’s no point in bothering for Windows 8 or 8.1. Disabling Aero for Windows 7 First, you’ll want to right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize from the menu. Then you can simply scroll the themes down until you see the Basic themes....
What Is “Native” Resolution? Flat-panel displays, whether LED, OLED, or plasma, have a grid of physical pixels. When an image has at least as many pixels worth of data as the screen can physically display, you’re getting the maximum sharpness and clarity possible on that screen. This is different from older CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) displays, which use a charged beam to draw an image on the phosphorescent layer on the back of the screen....
Mozilla Firefox has a variety of hidden Easter eggs, configuration settings and diagnostic information hidden away in its internal about: pages. You can access each page by typing about: into the address bar, followed by the name of the page. The about: pages contain everything from the story of Mozilla’s battle against Internet Explorer and robot pop-culture references to advanced configuration settings, permission management and diagnostic information. About:About The about:about page is an index of Firefox’s about pages....
Intersection types are a new type system feature coming in PHP 8.1. They let you typehint values that must satisfy more than one type constraint. PHP’s already got union types that combine types with a logical “or” clause; intersection types offer an “and” clause instead. Some developers already typehint intersections using PHPDoc annotations. The addition of native support is a step forward as the types will actually be enforced at runtime....
Creating an HTPasswd file Make sure you’ve got an htpasswd file available before you tackle the Kubernetes configuration. You can create a new single user htpasswd in your terminal: You’ll be prompted to enter the password. A new file called auth will be created in your working directory. Next you need to base64-encode your credentials string so it can be used as a value in a Kubernetes secret: Copy the base64-encoded string to your clipboard....
If you’ve sent a link to your WordPress article, and it didn’t expand to show the image, title, and description, that’s because you haven’t set up your Open Graph Meta Tags in WordPress. We’ll show you how to configure them to improve your social media presence. What Are Open Graph Meta Tags? The configuration for social media embeds is done through a standard format, originally created at Facebook, called “the Open Graph Protocol....
It’s that time of year when the fall directions come down, and the festive Christmas decorations go up. If you’ll be hanging a bunch of Christmas lights around your house, here are several different methods for automating them, so that you never have to worry about turning them on and off manually. RELATED: Smart Light Switches vs. Smart Light Bulbs: Which One Should You Buy? Keep in mind that you don’t need to have the fanciest smarthome products to make this happen, but you’ll have a bit more flexibility as far as what you can do if you already have a smarthome hub....
If you have Clipboard history enabled in Windows 10, the feature keeps a record of items you have recently copied to the Clipboard while using copy and paste. Here’s how to clear your Clipboard history—or disable it if you prefer. What Gets Stored in Clipboard History? Clipboard history, first introduced in Windows 10’s October 2018 Update, stores a list of the 25 most recent items that you’ve copied to the Clipboard....
Ubuntu and other Linux distributions have extensive package repositories to save you the trouble of compiling anything yourself. Still, sometimes you’ll find an obscure application or a new version of a program that you’ll have to compile from source. You don’t have to be a programmer to build a program from source and install it on your system; you only have to know the basics. With just a few commands, you can build from source like a pro....
You’ve set up a worksheet, when you realize it would look better if the rows and columns were reversed. There’s no need to re-enter all that data. Just use Excel’s Transpose feature. Select the cells containing the headings and data you want to transpose. Click the “Copy” button or press Ctrl+C to copy the selected cells. Click a blank cell where you want to copy the transposed data. The cell you select becomes the top, left corner of whatever you’re copying....
If you want to share your OneNote notes with someone who doesn’t have OneNote, or if you want to prevent accidental editing of your notes, convert them to a PDF file. Here’s how it’s done. PDF Saving Behavior Varies by Platform OneNote notebooks contain one or more sections, and each section contains one or more pages. To illustrate what that means, here’s a chart to show the structure of a OneNote notebook:...
