Cyriaque Skrapits cisoun

Create a chroot environment in Arch

I wanted to use my cloud server to compile large projects for me.
For that, I needed to create a chroot environment to keep my main system clean and which will handle that process.

Here's how I did...

My chroot environment: /mnt/chroot

1. Installation

Performance comparison between PHP vs Python vs Ruby

Here's a performance comparison between PHP vs Python vs Ruby done by doing a Fibonacci sequence of 35 iterations in each language. I tried to adapt the codes in order to have the exact same behavior.

Tested versions are the following:

➜ php --version   
PHP 8.0.3 (cli) (built: Mar  4 2021 20:39:15) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group

Implementing a keyboard

Recommendations

General

Use the text provider from the OS to handle the texts within the apps from the keyboard.
- TextDocumentProxy on iOS.
- InputMethodService on Android.
Loading must be fast (ressources might not be reused each time the keyboard appears).

File securization on Apache

Here, I explain how to provide securized access to a file (or folder) on an Apache server with a basic authentication. Let's say we are on folder /srv/http and we would like to restrain access to hello.txt to user alice only.

cd /srv/http
touch hello.txt

JavaScript Tricks

Object declaration

// Method 1
function obj() {
  return { a: 1 };
}

Localization in JS

The Cheap way.

Summary

Here, we'll rely on a "lang" parameter in the URL (E.g: "?lang=fr") to know which language to use. The code will then look for HTML elements with a data-i18n attribute. This attribute contains the key of the translation whose value will be set as the inner HTML of the element.

Photography gear

A-MoDe — Hong Kong
Straps, bags, etc... I don't like the stiffness.

ARTISAN&ARTIST* — Japan
Straps, bags. Good reputation.

Cooph — Austria

Aluminium necks

Alef Guitars — Israel
Nice necks.
NOTE(2025): went mostly silent since the war, wouldn't order given the context.

Aluminati Guitars — United States
Don't know much about them, but have nice takes on guitars/basses, putting them here anyway.

Developing Nations — United States

	<?php
	$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

	# Serve static ressources.
	if (preg_match('/\.(?:png\|jpg\|jpeg\|gif\|css\|js\|svg)$/', $uri)) {
	return false;
	}

	function register($method, $route, $callback) {
	global $uri;

	/* ==UserStyle==
	@name gmail--mono
	@namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus
	@version 1.0.10
	@description Implementation of https://x.com/guerriero_se/status/1792924958579900781.
	@author Sebastiano Guerriero, Cyriaque 'cisoun' Skrapits
	==/UserStyle== */

	/*
	* WARNING: Use Gmail's default theme with this!