There is an issue with WSL 2 where the clock in a WSL 2 instance isn't updated when the host resumes from sleep/hibernate. This can lead to problems when you want to install Linux packages or when creating or modifying files in general.
Testing GitLab CI build pipelines can be a bit annoying. You must make your changes, commit and push them to kick off the CI pipeline. Then you have to wait a while for the result to show up and start over again if something went wrong. If your CI runners are busy, you keep waiting and waiting for the next free slot. Luckily, it is possible to run GitLab CI jobs completely locally. After installing the gitlab-runner package locally, you can execute a job like this:
Whilst setting up a new local Magento development project, I ran into the problem that nginx sometimes errored “Upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream”.
Windows Terminal is one of my favorite and most used tools after migrating to Windows and WSL2 last year. I use if to access all my WSL2 instances, Powershell and I keep track of my SSH connections.
As outlined in the last blog post, we needed to convert serialized data into JSON format to make Magento happy. Since Magento’s Magento\Framework\DB\AggregatedFieldDataConverter implementation needs to know which database fields to convert, we had to find them. The easiest way seems to be to go through the whole database and figure out which fields contain serialized data. Doing this by hand is no fun, so I wrote a little script that helped me with that task:
After upgrading a Magento 2.1 instance to Magento 2.4, I realized some problems with serialized data. In Magento 2.1 PHPs serialize() and unserialize() functions have been used whilst in Magento 2.2 the default serialization uses json_encode() and json_decode().
About one year ago, I migrated from Linux to Windows and WSL 2. During this migration, I took the opportunity to rework my Linux setup in general. I was never a fan of fancy Bash prompts and “just” had Git in Bash prompt installed. During my migration, I had a look at what other options are around and came across a Powerline-like prompt for Bash written in Go. It looked easy to customize and extend, I gave it a try and liked it.
For some data integrity checks, I needed to know if all SKUs stored in a MySQL database table have been properly imported. That implied making sure each SKU contained a string with 2 underscores as a separator. Knowing that PHP has functions like substr_count() or count_chars(), I was surprised that nothing similar exists in MySQL.
Recently, we took over a Magento 2 project where data was migrated from an older Magento 1 instance. The merchant complained that after the migration some customers are not able to log in anymore. Even a password reset did not work.
Whilst I migrated from Linux to Windows and WSL 2 more than a year ago, I had a plan to install any development-related tools like Git or PHPStorm in WSL2. PHPStorm worked quite ok in WSL 2 except that filesystem changes (e.g. adding or removing files) made directly in WSL 2 were not properly recognized by PHPStorm. Even triggering a manual refresh from the disk did not always work. That made me install PHPStorm on Windows and open PHP projects via the WSL 2 integration of PHPStorm. That works better but still has its issues with larger projects.