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⚠️ DEPRECATED: DO NOT USE THIS APPROACH ANYMORE This blog post contains outdated information. Chainguard has significantly reduced its commitment to open source, and the wolfiphp approach described here is no longer recommended for production use. See the wolfiphp announcement for more details. Alternative: Use Debian’s official packages with apt-get install php8.4-cli and related packages. While images may be larger, Debian provides stable, openly maintained PHP packages without dependency on corporate-controlled initiatives. ...

I have been using Nix for almost four years and also maintaining some packages at nixpkgs (the primary Nix repository). The Nix learning curve is complicated, so I could not get my colleagues into it. But Devenv made it so easy to compose a developer environment, so I got their attraction, and some of them switched already, and we are looking to where we can use it too. What is Devenv? Devenv allows you to describe in the Nix language how your project setup has to look like for any Unix-based systems (WSL2, Mac, Linux) for amd64/arm64 architectures. As you may know, no project has the same dependencies: one needs NodeJS 16, and the other NodeJS 18 already. For those reasons, there are already solutions like NVM(node version manager) where you can pin the version using a .nvmrc file. This works, of course, only for Node, and there are similar tools for any language and devenv allows you here to pin any package and with services. ...

I switched a month ago to macOS as of the M1 hype and wanted to try out the entire Apple ecosystem when I have an iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To get Shopware 6 running, I looked into some Guides for Mac and found out for myself: Why is this all so complicated, and why the hell is anyone using Docker for that. Docker on Mac I saw that many people are using Dockware for their Setup. (Dockware is a Docker image with all the Tools/Servers included to run Shopware 6). Docker runs not native on macOS and uses a Virtual machine to emulate a Linux kernel and all the containers below it. So obviously, the filesystem would be slow, and many people using, for this reason, SFTP or other tools like docker-sync to hold the same state between host and container. This is one of the most significant disadvantages for me. Like me, the dumb user has to run a tool to have this synchronized. I know that tools like PhpStorm can do this for me automatically, but when it doesn’t work, I will waste so much time to find this out. ...