Articles tagged Terminal

How to Check and Upgrade XZ on Mac OS

As you probably already know, a backdoor has been found in XZ Utils, a compression tool that is used for lossless compression in command line utilities. If you're looking to understand more about this vulnerability, you can find an excellent explanation on Reddit.

If you're a Mac OS and Homebrew user, there is a good chance that you have the version of XZ that everyone has been talking about installed on your machine. This article is about how to find out for sure and what to do about.

#Which versions are affected

As you probably already know, a backdoor has been found in XZ Utils, a compression tool that is used for lossless compression in command line utilities. If you're looking to understand more about this vulnerability, you can find an excellent explanation on Reddit.

If you're a Mac OS and Homebrew user, there is a good chance that you have the version of XZ that everyone has been talking about installed on your machine. This article is about how to find out for sure and what to do about.

#Which versions are affected

As you probably already know, a backdoor has been found in XZ Utils, a compression tool that is used for lossless compression in command line utilities. If you're looking to understand more about this vulnerability, you can find an excellent explanation on Reddit.

If you're a Mac OS and Homebrew user, there is a good chance that you have the version of XZ that everyone has been talking about installed on your machine. This article is about how to find out for sure and what to do about.

#Which versions are affected

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How To Build The Imagick Php Extension From Source

Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:

pecl install imagick

If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.

Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:

pecl install imagick

If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.

Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:

pecl install imagick

If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.

Thank you for reading this article.

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Reset Your Laravel App In Seconds

In his recent talk about Laravel Nova at Laracon US, Taylor Otwell used a nice little shortcut to reset his demo app during the presentation. To reset an app in our local environment, we need to do three things:

  • Drop the database.
  • Migrate the database.
  • Seed the database.


  • As of Laravel 5.5, we've been able to to use the following command to perform all three actions at once:

    In his recent talk about Laravel Nova at Laracon US, Taylor Otwell used a nice little shortcut to reset his demo app during the presentation. To reset an app in our local environment, we need to do three things:

  • Drop the database.
  • Migrate the database.
  • Seed the database.


  • As of Laravel 5.5, we've been able to to use the following command to perform all three actions at once:

    In his recent talk about Laravel Nova at Laracon US, Taylor Otwell used a nice little shortcut to reset his demo app during the presentation. To reset an app in our local environment, we need to do three things:

  • Drop the database.
  • Migrate the database.
  • Seed the database.


  • As of Laravel 5.5, we've been able to to use the following command to perform all three actions at once:

    Thank you for reading this article.

    If you've made it this far, you might like to connect with me on 𝕏 where I post similar content and interact with like-minded people. If this article was helpful to you I'd really appreciate it if you would consider buying me a coffee.
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