Gabor Javorszky

Should I pay for that SaaS?

You’re looking for a way to do something, and you find multiple solutions to the problem. Let’s take blogging as an example You find Ghost, and to your delight, it’s available open source. You can download it and host it wherever you want it to, for free!

go

Use gci in Goland as a file watcher

gci is an amazing tool. It takes the guesswork out of organising your go file’s imports, and the command line version works as expected. Here's how to set it up in Goland.

opinion

The projects that don’t get built

Before working on projects, there are a few questions that we should all ask: can it be abused, how can it be made safe, and does it need to be built in the first place?

go

how parseTime in sql connections work with time.Time in Go

Working with time values in Go is not straightforward, and using a database to store them with automatic parsing can be even more fun! Here are my thoughts on it.

review

Book review: 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

In mid-2019 I was given the book "15 invaluable laws of growth" to read. I reviewed it then. I post my review now.

hr

Should remote companies pay differently based on where you live?

Reasons why remote companies should not pay people differently based on where they live.

terminal

Customize your ZSH prompt with this one weird trick!

I like having the last commit's sha in the command line. Gives me instant access to the info. I'll walk you through how I made zsh to show it to me.

stripe

Stripe Connect, and what it means for you!

Stripe Connect is a convenient way to set up plugins with a few clicks. It also lets the account you're connecting to see all your data.

advanced

Password managers, password rules, and an idea

What if we had a standard that password fields could tell you whether the input conforms to the ruleset?

advanced

Building a no-js eCommerce store

I want to make an ecommerce site and not use javascript at all as an experiment.

ssl

Get Firefox to trust your self signed certificates

How to get Firefox to trust all self signed certificates you use locally to serve your development sites over https and not complain about them.

seo

Growth hacking gone wrong: ”You rejected me, so I told the authorities!!1!”

If you're a growth hacker, and you ask website owners to please place your links in their own content, you might want to remember you're the one asking.

diversity & inclusion

Dear white people, we need to talk about diversity and inclusion

A longread where you can read what some of the things white people should pay attention to when it comes to diversity according to a fellow white person.

wordpress

Hosting: gotcha with multiple WP installs, one Redis

If you're using one Redis instance to keep multiple WordPress sites' data, you need to make sure different sites don't bleed over to others. Read how and why.

laravel

Updating Laravel Valet: sorry, you’re not allowed to preserve environment

Laravel valet might tell you that you are not allowed to preserve the environment. This article details what that means, why that happens, and how to fix it.

nginx

ETag, If-Match, NGINX, and you!

If you set an ETag response header, and it's missing, NGINX might be removing it. This article explains what causes it and how to fix it so ETags show up again.

phpcs

PHPCS on Codeship as CI test

Use Codeship to test the changed files in your pull request against PHPCS. Find working code, and explanation on why it works.

git

Set up Circle CI to run phpcs on only changed files in a PR

Configure CircleCI so you can run phpcs on only changed files for a pull request.

go

Testing and mocking - what clicked for me

Rundown on how to transform untestable code to testable, mockable code in Go using interfaces and mocking

health

Recap for 2018

My recap of 2018, and what I expect to happen in 2019. Long story short, got my British Citizenship, had some health issues. Read to find out more.

git

Hide files from git, but everywhere!

Git has a concept of global gitignore. You can have your usual files in a repository without needing to add them to the project's .gitignore file. Here's why and how.

timezone

How should we store future time in non UTC in a database and still be performant?

An example of a practical approach on how to store data in both local time, and a normalised time (UTC), and still be performant, but counter the timezone shift.

timezone

Why storing future times in timestamps is not good

A collection of articles and videos explaining timezone intricacies, including storing future events, and a list of libraries for PHP and JS.

phpcs

Set up PHPCS and WordPress-Extra coding standards, and configure your IDEs to use them

Having an overarching code style is nice. Learn how to set up phpcs and the WordPress coding standards for your system / editor.

wordpress

Generating WordPress salts in Go

One of the things I want to achieve in 2018 is to learn to use Go. - learn golang - launch own saas - launch company saas - get to work on a tropical island in between surfing sessions - continually push industry for better inclusion - and better security