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  • Tech Notes: Laravel Livewire – testing object/model properties of components

    2021-04-12

    A quick tip for testing Laravel Livewire components with object/model properties.

  • Idea: CSS-only spam prevention with a simple allow-list and CAPTCHA

    2021-03-26

    An idea for a CSS-only spam prevention system that uses a white list and simple CAPTCHA, complete with WordPress plugin code.

  • Getting to grips with Docker and Laravel Sail (on Apple Silicon/M1)

    2021-03-02

    So I wanted to have a play with Laravel Breeze and Jetstream. In doing so I noticed that the instructions for Breeze (and for Laravel in general) suggest a Docker-based Laravel Sail install by default. I had not looked into Docker despite a lot of hype around it recently in my tech world. So I […]

  • Sustainable Web Design: Book thoughts

    2021-02-25

    Some brief and random thoughts on the excellent book "Sustainable Web Development"

  • Simple free domain redirection with Netlify

    2021-02-05

    How to host domain redirects for free with Netlify.

  • Building WP-UI

    2021-01-01

    A very scattergun, brain dump of thoughts about the WP-UI app that I'm developoing in Electron.

  • Tech note: WordPress multisite in sub-domains redirects without path when you have a domain alias

    2020-12-04

    Well this is a super-niche issue that I came across today. I don't have an answer - maybe you do?

  • Where are my MySQL database files on MacOS?

    2020-11-19

    My 7-year-old MacBook got bricked. So I needed to recover some MySQL files from a Time Machine backup and load them onto a new computer. And so I've been digging around finding out where all my homebrew and MySQL files are. While running mulitple instances of everything! Here's a fairly unstructured brain-dump of all that I've learned (or re-learned) along the way.

  • Apple M1/Apple Silicon Day 1 LIVE

    2020-11-17

    Follow up – day 3! So, overall I’m pretty happy with the 8GB M1 Air. Outstanding issues I have are: ScreenFlow and some Rogue Amoeba audio apps don’t work – I guess these are doing some clever low-level stuff. I’m having issues importing my MySQL databases from backup. This is not really an M1 specific […]

  • Remote work and the future of the high street

    2020-09-03

    The high street is dying. Remote/home working as a result of COVID 19 is exacerbating this. But I think there's an opportunity to do everything better.

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