PHP: Frankenstein arrays
“One of the core data types in PHP is the array. Mostly unchanged since the early beginnings of the language. The name “array” is a bit unfortunate, as well as the implementation. It is not really an array.”
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Experiment on your code freely with Git worktree
“Git is designed in part to enable experimentation. Once you know that your work is safely being tracked and safe states exist for you to fall back upon if something goes horribly wrong, you’re not afraid to try new ideas.”
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git-switch Documentation
“NAME git-switch – Switch branches”
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AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month
“The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum.”
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Svelte’s lifecycle methods can be used anywhere
“I don’t think it’s widely known that you can call the Svelte lifecycle methods (onMount, onDestroy, beforeUpdate, afterUpdate) outside of a component. It is mentioned in the Svelte docs and tutorial, though it’s easy to gloss over.”
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Choose Boring Technology
“Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this.”
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Visitor Pattern
“The Visitor Pattern isn’t used often. This is because there are few situations in which it is applicable or even makes sense. However, it’s a nice pattern to know and to have in your tool belt when the time comes. Let’s look at how this pattern can be applied in a PHP environment.”
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Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests
“Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy. As part of my day to day job at Mollie, guarding against data inconsistencies is always top of mind.”
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Trie in Javascript: the Data Structure behind Autocomplete
“We’ve already covered the basics of tree data structure in three posts. If you haven’t gone through those yet, I would strongly going through the introductory post at the very least. Trie is a variation of tree data structure. It’s also referred to as prefix tree or a variation of search tree.”
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Modern Php Cheatsheet
“This document is a cheatsheet for Php you will frequently encounter in modern projects and most contemporary sample code.”
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Installing xdebug for use on remote server
I used instructions found in the PHPStorm docs with the xdebug3 set of code. I’m just going to mention some specifics that aren’t listed in the PHPStorm docs or that I found particularly key. Setting up an SSH tunnel https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/remote-debugging-via-ssh-tunnel.html#set-up-an-ssh-tunnel-to-the-remote-machine This sets up a way for your remote server to talk to your local computer. … Continued
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions
“There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP is a way to transmit data that is reliable.”
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Jira Release UI Filters and Table Sorting with Tampermonkey
Tampermonkey is s superscript manager that allows you to write and run javascript code on specific domains/pages/paths. It’s pretty handy to alter a site you use with your niche wants. Here’s the GitHub repo which may get updates sooner than this blog post: https://github.com/thisbailiwick/jira-release-table-filtering-and-sorting Needed https://www.tampermonkey.net/ Installation Add Tampermonkey to whichever browser you use. Here’s … Continued
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A Beginner’s Guide to SvelteKit
“SvelteKit is an officially supported framework, built around Svelte. It adds key features to a Svelte app — such as routing, layouts and server-side rendering — and makes front-end development outrageously simple.”
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“We’re excited to announce Cloudflare R2 Storage! By giving developers the ability to store large amounts of unstructured data, we’re expanding what’s possible with Cloudflare while slashing the egress bandwidth fees associated with typical cloud storage services to zero.”
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Using `React.memo` to Avoid Unnecessary Rerenders
“In my last post, I talked about the concept of memoization and how the technique is used to avoid calculating a previously calculated result of a function. I also made mention of the two memoization functions in React. This post is going to focus on React.”
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How To Configure WebDAV Access with Apache on Ubuntu 18.04
“The author selected the Free and Open Source Fund to receive a donation as part of the Write for DOnations program. WebDAV is an extension of the HTTP protocol that allows users to manage files on remote servers.”
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React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application
“There is no consensus on the right way to organize a React application. React gives you a lot of freedom, but with that freedom comes the responsibility of deciding on your own architecture.”
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zsh problem: compinit:503: no such file or directory: /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
“When I installed oh my zash. When I addedexport PATH=”/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH” to my ~/.zshrc file. This error was shown in my terminal: However, I checked and found that these two files do exsist. Can someone tell me that the problem is?”
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Set a Max Execution Time in Your MYSQL Query
Sometimes I need to run a long query. Or sometimes when running one using TablePlus and it is taking a long time the kill process doesn’t always work. You can set a timeout with this syntax in your select /*+ MAX_EXECUTION_TIME(2000) */. The time is in milliseconds. This is a part of the mysql optimizer … Continued