Making ephpm php Byte-for-Byte Indistinguishable From php-cli

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:25:00 -0700

ePHPm embeds PHP into a single Rust binary. The obvious follow-up question from anybody deploying it is “do I still need a php on the box?” Composer, WP-CLI, artisan, PHPUnit and every build script in the world call php. If ephpm php can stand in for it then the answer is no. The single binary really means a single binary. “Mostly works” isn’t good enough for that though. These tools parse PHP’s output, check its exit codes and re-invoke it. So the goal was simple to state: ephpm php should be indistinguishable from php-cli.

Stop Ctrl-C-ing Your tail -f | grep

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:31:00 -0700

Here’s a loop I end up in all the time:

tail -f app.log
something scrolls by that looks wrong, Ctrl-C
tail -f app.log | grep ERROR and wait for it to happen again
decide I also want to drop the health checks, Ctrl-C
| grep -v healthz and wait again

Every filter tweak throws away the stream and every line that already went past. I got tired of it and wrote tail-gunner. It’s a tail replacement that you can promote into a filtering TUI with one keystroke. You can drop back out of it without the stream ever stopping.

Cli on Luther Monson

Making ephpm php Byte-for-Byte Indistinguishable From php-cli

Stop Ctrl-C-ing Your tail -f | grep