I use bash's history all the time, via ctrl+r and also with the up and down keys; it's wonderful.

Sometimes, I want to get back to the end of my history and I recently discovered that there's a shortcut for this: meta+>. It doesn't matter where you are…

Understanding Relationships Between Classes, Interfaces, Traits, and Enums in PHP

Modern PHP offers four major code structures — classes, interfaces, traits, and enums — each with its own purpose and rules. But the real power of PHP comes from how these structures can interact with each…

Following on from my earlier exploration of JWKS (RFC7517), I found myself needing to convert the JWKS into PEM format.

This time I turned to Python with my preference of using uv with inline script metadata and created jwks-to-pem.py.

The really nice thing about inline script metadata…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard introduced by Anthropic. Think of it as a USB-C port for AI: a consistent way to plug the AI models your AI agent uses into specific tools and data sources.

You can connect Junie, the AI coding agent by…

Recently, since getting a new computer, I've noticed that I've been losing bash history items and it took a while to work out what was going on, though I'm still not completely sure as it never seemed to be so much of a problem.

I regularly use the up and…

One project that I'm working on uses RFC 9457 Problem Details for HTTP APIs for its error responses.

In the OpenAPI spec, we can define this as a component and use in the relevant paths as appropriate:

components: schemas: ProblemDetails: type: object properties: type: type: string format: uri-reference description: A…

Inspired by John Gruber mentioning on the Cortex podcast that he has a shortcut that saves links to a note in Tot, I thought I'd do something similar for saving to a note in Apple Notes.

I want to store as a bullet item containing the name of the…

One app that I find incredibly useful is SwiftBar and one use I have is to display track info for the currently playing song in Apple Music.

SwiftBar plugins work as shell scripts that execute on a timer and echo specially formatted text which SwiftBar then turns into an item…

Along with making Laravel Idea part of PhpStorm, this release brings improvements to the remote development experience, JetBrains AI tools, and more.

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Junie coding agent

MCP support 

Support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows you to connect Junie to external sources like databases, file systems,…

I run Apple Music on my Mac desktop and send the output to my HomePod minis. To control the volume, you need to manipulate the Apple Music volume slider rather than the global volume controls for the Mac.

It's easier to press buttons than use a mouse, so I used …