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Automate Mobilizon

Automate Mobilizon

As I'm hacking a Mobilizon instance to push into the fediverse events fetched from different sources (e.g. the ticket selling platoforms popular in Italy, like VivaTicket), I have to put together some PHP script to automatically interact with the poorly documented Mobilizon API. Even for the first step -

Face to Face

Finally, I've found at least one actual use for an AI-powered tool. Even if this particular use case is absolutely not a new one. On TrendingOnWiki - a website monitoring trending topics on Wikipedia - I use images took from Commons to enhance pages. Usually photos of people. In all

The Wikipedia Graph

The Wikipedia Graph

I've spent the latest days playing around categories in Italian Wikipedia, in the aim to chart them and get a visualization of a semantic graph composed by more than 440K nodes. I've not reached any acceptable nor useful result, but it is worth to document what actually worked and what

The Ultimate Data Source

The Ultimate Data Source

"Ehi! Two years ago many municipalities in Italy have been suppressed, created and merged! I need to update the database for a customer of mine, who didn't found one of them! Let's look for an updated CSV!" And, of course, I found nothing. At least nothing usable in my own

Influenced by SPARQL

Influenced by SPARQL

It is some time now that I'm working on a SPARQL ORM for Laravel, directly derived from Eloquent and sharing (at least, in the original intention) the same feeling and interface. I've not tagged yet a first release, but I'm actually esperimenting with some very simple use cases to test,

Routing ReactPHP with Laravel

Routing ReactPHP with Laravel

As previously mentioned, I'm actually playing with asyncronous PHP and I'm trying to combine ReactPHP (which is the most popular framework for this kind of tasks, in PHP) and Laravel (which is the most popular "classic HTTP syncronous" framework). Today's challenge: run a ReactPHP HTTP Server, but still leveraging the

Scaling Websockets in PHP

Scaling Websockets in PHP

I have to implement some kind of sub-system for a larger platform, able to handle realtime communications (such as chat, notifications, and a few other things). And this means: websockets. And, as the platform itself is implemented in PHP/Laravel, this means: websockets in PHP. So I get back to

Authenticating SPARQL

Recently I'm playing a lot with SPARQL and PHP, using Virtuoso as triple store and EasyRDF as client library. The only problem was that Virtuoso pretends (of course) some kind of authentication to write data into the store (this is not entirely true, you can also permit write operations on

Message in a Phone

I had to integrate SMS notifications in a project for a client, got a look to the API documentation of Skebby (SMS service popular among Italian developers), and started wondering about a Laravel package to integrate it into the native notifications system of the framework. More recently, another client asked

Key of the Key

Recently I've worked a little with GPG keys in a web application (mostly to digitally sign documents, with PIN-protected keys). Two considerations: * OpenPGP.js is really cool and easy to use, get it a look * to avoid depending from native PHP extentions I've used this composer installable library, which is

Next Next Cloud

Recently I've explored options for an "home server", some kind of appliance hosted at home (eventually on a dedicated RaspberryPI) and able to deliver some useful service for daily tasks. Given that the once promising FreedomBox project has become a strongly opinionated selection of random applications, and many other projects