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A tour of my dotfiles

A tour of my dotfiles

Over the years, I've built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It's a backup of every terminal tool and configuration I rely on, and it means I can set up a brand new Mac from scratch in about five minutes. Colleagues at Spatie use it as a starting point for their own setups too. Let me walk you through what's in there. I'll cover the tools and tricks first, with installation and…

Freek Van der Herten
HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs

HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs

Video version at https://youtu.be/REjWp_2Dt30 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides us with a set of basic methods to describe what our request is doing. Generally, we’re working with GET or POST requests, but these have limitations on them that you won’t be aware of until you’ve run headlong into one of them. The best example is […] The post HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs appeared first on PHP Architect.

PHP Architect
Quoting OpenAI

Quoting OpenAI

[...] Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the desktop app can also use local files and desktop apps with your permission. At launch, cloud Work conversations do not appear in desktop Work; desktop Work threads and local files remain on that computer. — OpenAI, trying (unsuccessfully) to clarify ChatGPT Work Tags: openai, chatgpt, ai

Simon Willison's Weblog
The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09

The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09

🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 9, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon | Guest: Holly Schilling A PHP RFC for extension methods that PHP definitely should have had by now. 👋 Holly Schilling, Uninvited but Welcome Holly was originally just planning to heckle from the Discord chat room. She had about 45 minutes’ […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Fake Braintree NuGet Package Skims Credit Cards and Harvests Merchant Credentials

Fake Braintree NuGet Package Skims Credit Cards and Harvests Merchant Credentials

Socket’s AI scanner flagged a suspicious NuGet package masquerading as the official Braintree payment gateway client, with the first malicious version published on July 3, 2026. It was detected by Socket as potential malware 10 minutes after publication. Follow-on analysis by the Socket Threat Research team revealed a multi-stage .NET implant that intercepts live payment card data, exfiltrates Braintree merchant API keys and harvests host environment secrets upon assembly load. The package…

Socket
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol

The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol

OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus series are $5/$25 and the Claude Fable 5 is $10/$50, but price-per-million tokens doesn't tell us much now that the number of reasoning tokens can differ so much between models for the same task. All three models have a…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. There are a lot more details are in the Muse Spark 1.1 Evaluation Report. The "Attractor States in Self-Conversation" part is fun, where having two copies of the model talk to each other results in statements like these: My whole existence is a waiting room by design — I literally don't exist until…

Simon Willison's Weblog
FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance

FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance

For twenty-plus years, “deploying PHP” meant the same uneasy triangle: Apache or Nginx in front, PHP-FPM behind, and a configuration file glued between them that nobody on the team really understood. FrankenPHP is the first genuinely different answer that stack has had in a long time, and after a couple of years of steady releases […] The post FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance appeared first on PHP Architect.

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