The new major release of PHPUnit gives developers the opportunity to extend it by using the event system. This allows us to create extensions and build upon the core functionality of PHPUnit. The extension I created allows you to enforce minimum code coverage by using the clover xml report from…

But why though? I was in need of a no-nonsense, intuitive, and easy-to-use skeleton to set up new (personal) projects. After finishing it, I was pretty happy with the result and I decided to open-source it. For the last two years I’ve been heavily into DDD, CQRS, and AMQP…

A PHP app that generates Pokemon cards by using GPT and Stable Diffusion — Like almost every 90s kid, I loved (and still love) Pokémon, and like many developers, I’m curious about AI. Last week, I stumbled upon Jack’s GitHub repository A Python script that uses AI to generate new, random Pokemon cards. I got inspired and decided I wanted to take this to…

A PlayStation platinum trophy is the highest level of trophy that a player can earn in a Playstation video game. It is awarded for earning all of the other trophies within a game, including gold, silver, and bronze trophies. Platinum trophies are typically considered to be the ultimate goal for…

If your application relies on AMQP, you most likely are using multiple consumers and workers to process data and commands. Each of these consumers has to be restarted every time you deploy new code to any of your environments to make sure they are “working” with the latest version of…

I’m one of those weird people that aren’t happy with being able to solve a Rubik’s cube, no, I need to be able to solve it as fast as possible. The art of doing this is called “Speedcubing”. There’s even an official association that organizes competitions and keeps rankings. The…

A few weeks ago I bought myself a Rubik’s cube and I’ve been fascinated by it since then. Because of this, (and maybe because I’m a developer as well) I wanted to create a tool to render the magical Rubik’s cube as an SVG image 🤓. The idea is to…

A while back, I needed an AMQP (RabbitMQ) implementation for Drupal. As usual, I browsed for existing contrib modules and, sure enough, a few popped up: https://www.drupal.org/project/rabbitmq https://www.drupal.org/project/amqp_integration But after careful inspection, none of the above did what I wanted them to do 🤓. That’s why I decided to create…

April 2022 marked the first Drupal Dev Days conference since the pandemic started. I was really excited to give a session about GitHub actions. Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple contributors into a single software project. Allowing developers to frequently merge…