Cyriaque Skrapits cisoun

Mockup PHP API

Serve a fake customer API as /api/customer/:id with Apache and some PHP.

/srv/http/api/customer/index.php:

<?php
// Simple customer array (simulate a database)
$customers = [

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

Photography gear

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

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

Cooph — Austria

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.

JavaScript Tricks

Object declaration

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

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

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).

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

	/* ~/Library/Application Support/GIMP/3.1/gimp.css */

	/*
	* Tailwind colors
	* https://tailwindcolor.com
	*/
	@define-color stone-0 #0c0a09;
	@define-color stone-1 #1c1917;
	@define-color stone-2 #292524;
	@define-color stone-3 #44403b;

	/* ==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!