How to upgrade to PHP 8.2 on Mac (and Laravel Valet) original
Now that PHP 8.2 has been released, it's time to upgrade the PHP of your Mac.
If you're using Brew - which you probably are - there are only a few steps involved.
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How to install PHP 8.2 RC on Mac
PHP 8.2 is scheduled to be released on the 24th of Nov, 2022. Of course, meanwhile, you may test the new features, syntax changes, and other improvements in your local environment.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
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DevToys for Mac
Here's a free nifty little Mac app that can do a whole bunch of tasks: formatting JSON, encode URLs, generate UUIDS.
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Fixing the dreaded "'pcre2.h' file not found" error when installing imagick original
Whenever I upgrade PHP, I seem to have troubles installing imagick. This command pecl install imagick always results in an error "'pcre2.h' file not found". To fix that error, you should issue these commands: brew install pcre2 ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pcre2/10.39/include/pcre2.h…
How to install PHP 8.1 RC on your Mac
Good instructions provided by Nuno.
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Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac
Concise instructions on how to install PHP 8 locally.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Time to upgrade your monitor
Nikita Prokopov shares some good insights on why having a good monitor is important. MacOS users: your fonts will look much better with font smoothing turned off.
Read more [tonsky.me]
Using BetterTouchTool as a window manager original
In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.
Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac
As usual, my colleague Brent wrote a post with clear instructions on how to upgrade. As a bonus he also provides some necessary steps to get PHP 7.4 to work in Valet.
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OCR in your terminal
?shell tip?
— Travis Northcutt (@tnorthcutt) September 6, 2018
brew install tesseract
alias ocr='screencapture -i ~/tmp/screenshot.png && tesseract ~/tmp/screenshot.png stdout | pbcopy && rm -f ~/tmp/screenshot.png'
Then, run `ocr` in your terminal, select text in an image, and...
✨it's copied to your clipboard ✨ pic.twitter.com/KEsiDasu8l
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Migrate your local PHP 7.2 setup to Homebrew v1.5.*
Recently Homebrew reorganised some PHP stuff. The old methods to install PHP and extensions via Homebrow don't work anymore. Andy Grunwald wrote a blogpost on how to migrate.
With Homebrew 1.5.0 the tap homebrew/php got deprecated. They migrated it to homebrew/core, but this is changing the installation process completely:
How to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 on MacOS using Homebrew original
PHP 7.2 was released almost two months ago. I decided to wait a bit until a stable version of Xdebug with PHP 7.2 compatiblity was available. And that happened yesterday with the release of Xdebug 2.6. I'm on MacOS and use brew to install stuff. Upgrading from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 is laughably easy. These…
Installing PHP 7.2
PHP 7.2 was released last week. Here's a nice post highlighting the most important changes. If you want to know how to install PHP 7.2 on your system, Colin O' Dell has got you covered.
PHP 7.2 has been released, bringing some great new features and security enhancements to the language such as object type hints, saner count() behavior, and much more. Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.2 on several different operating systems.
https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201711/installing-php-72
Using brew on MacOS it's very easy to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to PHP 7.2. Just run these:
brew update
brew upgrade
brew unlink php71
brew install php72
Please be aware that, at the moment of writing, there isn't a stable xdebug version that works for PHP 7.2. Keep an eye on the xdebug homepage to know when a stable version drops.
How to hide the "Last Login" line on the terminal
One of the first things I do after a fresh setup. That annoyed me for the /longest/ time. pic.twitter.com/j9LvzbMQQd
— Jaggy ? (@jaggygauran) August 31, 2017
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Upgrading to PHP 7.1 is easy original
PHP 7.1 was released last week. It has many nice new features. If you're anything like me, you want to use the latest version right way. Upgrading to PHP 7.1 is not that difficult. Personally I use homebrew. The steps required to upgrade from 7.0 are laughably simple. Just issue this command in your…
Introducing Laravel Valet
Chances are that if you've been following the news in the Laravel ecosystem that you've heard of Laravel Valent. If not: Laravel Valet is a super easy way to serve your sites in a development environment. It's dead simple to setup and use. Here's the intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Z4Gk9Wc0s
I think it's kinda amazing that it was built in just four days. Not everybody is a fan of the Valet approach be I sure do like it. At Spatie, we're going use Valet instead of Vagrant for most of our projects.
Need to know more about Valet? Check out this post on dotdev.co and the official documentation.
Paw
Paw is a very nice rest client for Mac. Comes highly recommended.