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Some of the services I use to make life easier

Short list of the services and tools I use to get stuff done in my professional life.

Laravel 5.6, SFTP, connection hygiene, and you!

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)

I Modified The Token Authentication in Laravel / Spark!

Okay, that was yet another case of “programming by next error thrown”. It was frustrating. But also hilarious. Hilarious in the sense that I can’t believe how much code I had to shovel to implement something seemingly simple. Background: I set up a Laravel / Spark project. Out of the

The Curious Case of WooCommerce Shipping and the Hackiest Code I’ve Ever Written

We all have those moments when sizing up a programming problem. It usually starts with this: > But really, how hard can that be? Turns out, it can be pretty damn hard. A Tale of Recalculating Shipping Currently on a client project one of my tasks included recalculating shipping costs

New pet project: WooCommerce cloud logging

WooCommerce 2.7 introduced a new class for handling logging. The handler itself can be replaced, which is awesome. The default handler creates log files on the server and stores the entries in plain text. The trouble I have with that: * it's kind of hard to get access

svn and case-insensitive file systems

tl;dr version svn rm ^/path/to/file -m "removing duplicate version" Explanation There's a plugin for WordPress that I help maintain. Along the way something decided that the readme.txt file should also be submitted as README.txt. Note the capitalisation. Because the systems I&

Sane PCRE URL Regex for PHP

So it turns out that there are some "oddities" in the spec and URLs that don't seem like URLs are actually URLs, and thus PHP's filter_var lets them pass. TLDs are not a requirement for example. This created some interesting conflicts though. I&

Is Ghost hard to install?

I guess in the developer world I could consider myself as a dual-wielding character. I do WordPress websites at my dayjob to the point where I'm uncovering bugs in core (not to mention some of the big plugins we're using), and I'm also a

Could you potentially run your own Dropbox / SpiderOak / Google Drive?

Potentially. I mean I think. Here's my thought process. What's needed Basically the whole reason for Dropbox, SpiderOak and Google Drive is a place where you put files that will magically appear on every device that has access to the same account. So if I take

I am tempted to ditch Mailbox — again

A few months ago I tried out Mailbox when it first came out on Android. Sometimes not having an iPhone sucks. Mailbox was great! Except it didn't quite replace the Gmail app that came with my Android, so every new mail notification appeared twice. Found no way to

Skype, you're doing it wrong

Sometimes I am lazy. Normally I can navigate between programs and modules by just using the trackpad on my mac. Switching between programs: 4 finger swipe up => exposé. Click on the program, boom. Two-finger tap => right click, contextual menu. I was viewing a page, and was playing around