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Git 2026/06/16 1 min read

My favorite Git alias

My favorite git alias: gcm to git checkout main|master, fetch, and pull < View plain text > bash # checkout to default branch gcm() { git fetch && git checkout $(git remote show origin | sed -n '/HEAD branch/s/.*: //p') } (Put this in your .bashrc or something)

Linux 2026/05/30 2 min read

Open PHP files in the right editor, automatically.

This is one of those cases when, viewing a file in your window manager, you see a .php file you want to quickly inspect. You double click on it, and… It quickly opens Geany, or your default quick file editor, but PHPStorm is already running right there… Or the opposite: you just want a quick peak for a single little…

YOURLS 2026/05/17 2 min read

YOURLS now speaks PostgreSQL

YOURLS is my cherished project: I'm proud of it, and I'm also clear-eyed about its limitations. For instance, PostgreSQL support has been one of the frequently requested features for at least six years. There have been a few YOURLS PostgreSQL forks that tried to address this, but keeping a fork in sync is quite a task and they didn't keep…

Music 2026/05/13 1 min read

The most beautiful song known to man

I genuinely think this is the most beautiful song ever composed. Your typical Be'Lakor song: enough parts and melodies to make 5 different songs, yet all united in one harmonious masterpiece. I *LOVE* Be'Lakor.

Migrated to Linux and still under the process of recreating an enviro where I'm as productive as I was on Windows. Almost there with Git. Still got to find a simple yet rather complete graphic editing tool to replace a SUPER old version of Paint Shop Pro. So far my go-to solution is photopea.com

2026/05/05 20h41 #

So, after a 10 year hiatus (ten years !!), I'm rebooting this blog. New WP theme, no new topics except less (much less) WordPress. Cya soon :)

2026/05/03 21h21 #

WordPress 2015/01/26 1 min read

WordCamp Paris slides: Unit Tests for WordPress plugins

Last week-end I gave a talk at WordCamp Paris, about the exciting topic of Unit Tests for WordPress plugins (are you excited already?). I think I'll write a short blog post about it in the next few days ; I'll also write a series of post about unit testing, because that subject is so exciting :) In the meantime, here…

WordPress 2014/12/20 2 min read

Revisiting WordPress smilies in a pure CSS way

Last night I was reading something interesting then stumbled, in the comments, on a WordPress smiley. Bleeeh. There's a reason one of the first things I do when I setup a new site is uncheck "Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display": 90's phpBB'esque blocky gifs are *ugly*. WordPress 4.2 Roadmap Wish: update those ugly smilies that…

Plugins 2014/09/14 1 min read

WordPress plugin banner as a .PSD

I recently felt like making a few banners for my plugins. First questions that came to mind: "what's the name of the file again? what dimensions?". And then, while making stuff: "will this be hidden by the plugin's title?" So, I made this simple banner template as a Photoshop PSD file. Nothing genius but feel free to use. No excuse…

WordPress 2014/06/17 1 min read

My WordPress plugins are on Github. Fancy a Pull Request?

I released a number of WordPress plugins over the last 10 years ("24 plugins and 1,062,110 downloads", says my fun bookmarklet) and they all mostly fall in one of these three categories: Outdated stuff that are no longer maintained because I don't need them anymore Simple stuff that don't require any maintenance because they just work and will probably work…

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