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A collection of 33 posts

git

Sign my commits, git!

How to configure git to sign commits with ssh, how to verify them locally, and how to make sure GitHub also verifies the commits with that key.

advanced

What the hell is <true/> in a plist!?

This is a story of xml. Or rather Apple’s plist files, which happen to be xml format. And me going down a very brief rabbit hole of figuring out why certain things are in xml files and how to find out. Spoiler, it’s all about the DTD, or data type definition.

advanced

Traces and logs for local development and docker

How I organize my utility services, like log and trace collection, for modularity and reusability during local development

go

On interfaces and composition

Abstractions are good. Golang has interfaces. The article talks about how to use interfaces to make code more maintainable and flexible.

stripe

Integrate Stripe dashboard from your site

Stripe's customer portal is awesome, but you need to give them a link to click on to get there. This walks you through what you need to make that happen.

go

Golang style linters, multiline statements, and blocks with whitespace

The golang ci lint linters whitespace, lll, and wsl can put you in a cycle of warnings about your code quality. By adding a comment to the right place you can appease all three.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

wordpress

Let’s get salty!

Because I’m on a roll today, so far I’ve broken 4 things today, including wp-cli, and Local by Flywheel. However I want to talk about what salts are, and why they are important, and how I found out about them. The below tweet, and its thread, has all

xdebug

Getting Xdebug working on php 7.2 and homebrew

In which I tell how I got Xdebug working on homebrew php 7.2 and Laravel Valet and PhpStorm

laravel

Laravel 5.6, SFTP, connection hygiene, and you!

Laravel 5.6 introduced SFTP as a Storage method. Do you know whether it closes the opened connections or leaves them hanging? Read this! (yes, it does close them)

learning

This weekend I was learning Go, set up a pi-hole, and was doing data rescue

Busy weekend of learning Golang, rescuing data from unreadable disk (ongoing), and setting up an online ad blackhole.

wordpress

On fixing embedded content in WordPress

How to use a custom wpcli command to fix broken links in all content across your entire WordPress site.

advanced

You don't need web sites to base64 decode things. Or to format JSON

Instead of using free sites to do encoding / decoding / formatting of data, you could be using the command line. Here's an example of base64 decoding and pretty formatting json.

advanced

Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, WP_Rewrite?

WP Rewrite is dark voodoo magic. I screwed up, so you don't have to!

development

Here are 3 ways to help you load test your websites

Do you want to know where your server's breaking point is? Read this and use one of them to find out.

wordpress

Loading templates in WordPress and WooCommerce

WooCommerce has a number of functions to load different templates. I describe what they do and how they're connected in this post.