Toby's Log

Updated to Symfony 6.4

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Since updating my server earlier in the year, and thus moving to PHP 8, I would’ve been able to update to Symfony 6. I didn’t get around to it until today, though. I’ve been fixing deprecations in my code mostly as they appear (in profiler, console, logs, or automated tests) so I didn’t have a lot to do this time. I changed ^5.4 to ^6.4 in my composer.json and then had to adjust a few minor things in config. Some of those took longer than they should’ve though.

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Ghosts.js

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A few years back, to make my site more festive for Hallowe’en, I made a script to have ghosts move around my web-page. I based it on my snow script for winter / Christmas, using the basic structure, reducing the number of moving objects, and changing their movement to look better for ghosts. I meant to post about it. This year I decided to break it out into its own Github repo, which led to me refining it and cleaning it up somewhat. See the ghosts.js repo and the ghosts.js demo.

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vim.tiny and vimrc

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I tried installing my dotfiles on an unmodified Ubuntu install. My vimrc threw many errors. Ubuntu and other Debian based distros install the tiny build of vim by default, which has a lot of features disabled, including eval, but still loads the user vimrc. That means that many things that might be in there, including function and even let, do not exist in tiny. :help no-eval-feature provides a solution: Wrap everything that should only work in +eval capable versions of vim in if 1 … endif.

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h5bp links

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Earlier in my career, I looked to the HTML5 boilerplate for ideas on how to set up websites. I just grabbed bits I liked and modified them as needed. For a time they had shortened links off of the h5bp.com domain that redirected to descriptions of why certain choices were made. But eventually, the person maintaining that domain let it lapse and someone else bought it.

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Since MacOS 15.7.1, the touch ID (fingerprint reader) often takes a while to become available on the login screen after the computer has awakened. It takes like 15 seconds to become functional, in which the user circles do a jumpy little dance. I know it’s ready when the message about using the touch id or password to log in shows up. This definitely slows my roll, as I lock the screen every time I leave the computer, which happens frequently.
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