Here’s an interesting look at Google Trends for REST API, RPC, and GraphQL. There’s also a link to the actual Google Trends, in case you want to play with it. For example, here’s how it looks with the addition of the SOAP (as a protocol though, rather than search term which is way too generic):
spatie/data-transfer-object library provides very easy to use data-transfer objects for PHP. If you code is relying a lot on arrays, you’ll appreciate this different approach. And the more complex your arrays are, the more benefit you’ll get out of it.
Eric Hammond shares a super-handy tip for those of us who work with Amazon AWS via the command line:
I just learned about a recent addition to aws-cli: TheÂ
--query option lets you specify what parts of the response data structure you want output.Instead of wading through pages of JSON output, you can select a few specific values and output them as JSON, table, or simple text. The newÂ
--query option is far easier to use thanÂjq,Âgrep+cut, or Perl, my other fallback tools for parsing the output.
Read the rest of his blog post for a few examples of how to use it.
“WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet” is a collection of about 10 tips for a more secure WordPress configuration file. Obviously, not all of them can always be applied, but it’s a good idea to review your own settings once in a while and to disable unnecessary bits.
PHP is well-known for its rather basic interpretation of precision numbers and operations on those. BC Match extension helps, but sometimes one needs more. brick/math is a composer-installable library that helps with arbitrary-precision arithmetic.