BlogFlockPhpStorm comes with a ton of built-in features, and you can add even more with plugins. They bring new languages, tools, and small improvements that make everyday coding smoother.
Many of the best ones come from independent developers. One of them is Dmitrii Derepko, who built several handy…
I have a number of locations on my website where I've been faking a masonry layout (you know, like how Pinterest lays things out) using CSS grid columns. They work, but they're not what I'm looking for.
I've been waiting for the official masonry grid display to land, and discovered…
I've been using Linux on the desktop for more than 25 years now. While I don't put icons on my desktop any longer (and haven't for probably around 15 years), I do use the gnome-shell launcher to quickly open programs, and this utilizes desktop files.
Recently, I wanted to create…
The State of PHP 2025 examines how developers use, prefer, and rely on PHP, showing how this long-standing web language continues to modernize through new frameworks, improved tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.
In this report, we present findings from the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025. Alongside the numbers, you’ll also hear…
Sometimes it's helpful to add some text to my current Obsidian daily note without having to switch to Obsidian, find the daily note and then type my text.
To do this, we can use the magic of Obsidian's obsidian:// URI schema and automate the text capture in Apple Shortcuts, with…
I've set my Mac up such that video calls such as Zoom use the microphone and earphones attached to my Behringer UMC204HD, which all other audio plays through the my normal speakers which are the default.
One issue I have with this is that it's quite hard to change…
At JetBrains, we want the PHP community to shine. First and foremost, we do this by building PhpStorm, the best IDE for PHP development; but we also support and help drive the PHP Foundation; have just organised PHPverse, accessible for everyone worldwide; and recently we made the …
Zoom used to have a strange behavior, one I'm sure they thought would be useful, but in reality was infuriating: if you moved between virtual workspaces, Zoom would minimize to a thumbnail window that followed you around to workspaces.
At some point, it went away, thankfully... but after a recent…
After pulling a new version of the Docker PostgreSQL container, I started getting this warning:
WARNING: database "dev" has a collation version mismatch DETAIL: The database was created using collation version 2.36, but the operating system provides version 2.41. HINT: Rebuild all objects in this database that use the default…
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