PhpMetrics is yet another tool in the ever growing list of the static code analyzers for PHP. Compared to the rest, I think this one is the easiest to install and run. And it produces the most eye candy reports ever. The generated report is in the HTML format, with fancy charts and graphs, and makes it really easy to spot and fix the issues.
Author: Leonid Mamchenkov
My Data Request – request your personal data from 100+ companies
My Data Request provides information on how to download your personal data from 100+ companies. Such information includes direct links, privacy policy references, and step-by-step instructions based on your geographical location.
Design for Blockchain
“Design for Blockchain” is a collection of articles about user interface and user experience design for blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and tools. Blockchain, due to its nature, is quite a technical subject, so making it friendly for non-technical users is a challenge. These articles are exploring the domain problem.
Database Flow – modern, self-hosted web interface for SQL and GraphQL
Database Flow is a modern, Open Source, self-hosted, web-based tool for working with SQL databases and GraphQL APIs. It supports a variety of the database engines: IBM DB2, Oracle, H2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Informix, and Microsoft SQL Server. It features an advanced SQL editor, query plan analyzer, GraphQL client, schema explorer, charting, query history, and more.
The only visible downside so far is that it’s written in Java.
Vim, cfdo, Ale and RipGrep
This blog post goes over several grep-like tools and their integration with Vim. If that’s something you do often, it’s worth a read. The tools are:
- Vim’s built-in “:cdo” and “:cfdo” commands. Here’s another blog post with a nice explanation of what these are and how to use them.
- Ale – asynchronous lint engine.
- RipGrep – a very fast tool for recursively searching directories for a regular expression. Extra bits for Vim integration are provided by the vim-ripgrep plugin.


