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Today I learned that PHP’s mkdir() with the octal permission argument apparently doesn’t support any value other than 0 in the leftmost octal spot (where setuid, setgid, and sticky bit go).

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Today at work, a feature I worked on went from fun and cool as I was building it to a stressful fix and recover operation after it unintentionally deleted important site files when deployed.

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Homebrew install.sh without root

[Update]The following method no longer seems to work due to changes in the install.sh script as well as locked down permissions in newer OS versions. Because of this and changes to my general setup, I have a new Homebrew setup that uses Homebrew’s untar anywhere method.[/Update]

I installed Homebrew, a Mac package manager, recently on my main computer.

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