How To Speed Up The Code Review

How To Speed Up The Code Review” is a collection of excellent tips and strategies on how to make your Pull Requests easier to review. These work equally well for Open Source projects and for proprietary repositories.

The gist of this article is: don’t make large pull requests, and don’t mix different types of changes within the same pull request. Read the whole thing for suggestions on how to actually do that.

Semantic Versioning – why you should care

Semantic Versioning – why you should care” is a nice take on Semantic Versioning and how and why people should is. I particularly liked the practical examples of changes and which version bump they correspond to.

I frequently find myself explaining the Semantic Versioning to developers, and going over some example changes. Now I can just send the link to that article instead and safe myself some time.

Very nicely done!

Tips to Speed up Your PHPunit Tests

I came across this collection of “Tips to Speed up Your PHPunit Tests“. Apart from the few usual ones, like disabling XDebug and using groups, I found a couple that linked to handy tools:

  • ParaTest – a PHPUnit extension that runs PHPUnit tests in parallel, significantly minimizing the test run time, and
  • PHPUnit Report – a tool that visualizes test run times, clearly showing which unit tests take the longest to run.

Very cool! Needs trying …

The HTML we never had

The HTML we never had” is an interesting look at some features of HTML, that weren’t implemented, but could have been easily done, and if they were, how different the modern web development would be.

I agree that the “src” attribute makes a lot of sense for tags other than just images and videos.

How To Secure A Linux Server

How To Secure A Linux Server is a nice collection of tips and tricks on improving the security of a Linux server. There are some well-known bits like SSH key authentication and firewall configuration, as well as some less common bits like multi-factor authentication and RAM disk for /tmp.