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outofcontrol, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Why do some websites not have one or more #RSS feeds. Do they feel they will get more traffic forcing people to visit their site everyday? Is it ad related? Not sure how to implement? Perhaps just don’t know about RSS feeds (feeds are old school right?)

Does your site have an RSS Feed (please boost)?

outofcontrol, 2 months ago to wordpress

Until Wordpress lets us handle their data the way they want, I fail to see that WP can call itself a CMS platform. Main point of consternation is date and future date handling. If I have posts that are set to a future date, maybe I still want to display those on the public area (events anyone?) without needing to install a special plugin for dates. You’re welcome to try and change my mind.

#wordpress #cms

outofcontrol, 10 months ago to php

Still follow some #PHP folks on Twitter that aren’t on Mastodon, like #Laracasts, Christoph Rumpel and #LaravelDaily. If they are on Mastodon, not under one of those bot accounts, would love to know.

outofcontrol, 1 month ago to macos

If you use brew’s curl on macOS, are you really using it? I installed and had curl setup a couple of years ago. Today it appears that curl was now pointing to Apple’s version, which has this issue (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/08/the-apple-curl-security-incident-12604/). Looks like brew doesn’t add a symlink for curl to /opt/homebrew/bin. Running ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl /opt/homebrew/bin resolved the issue.

#macos #curl #security

outofcontrol, 2 months ago to random

After using TablePlus for around 3 years, is this still a good app to use? Are there newer better alternatives.

It’s renewal time and I’d like to check-in on other apps before upgrading.

Feedback welcome.

#tableplus #mysql #mariadb

outofcontrol, 10 months ago to Laravel

Any reason to not have local .env and .env-staging files in #Laravel? I have a use case where the DB migrations are different on the two, and I can’t refresh the DB each run. Using the attached in bootstrap/app.php and having multiple .env files inside a root /env directory. Would love to hear alternative solutions to this that may not need changes to bootstrap/app.php

outofcontrol, 8 months ago to random

Settling into #Firefox again… I noticed 2 things that irk me:

1. I understand why, but it would be so nice to use my own cloud service for the Firefox Sync settings.
2. Why are Firefox data collection settings opt-out? They should be opt-in. I get why they do it, but it’s wrong.

Yes, much much much better than Chrome, but some room for improvement perhaps? If anyone has suggestions regarding sync settings, please post.

outofcontrol, 4 months ago to Laravel

Saw this on the #Laravelshift newsletter (admit I mostly signed up for tips at the bottom), and looks like Jason doesn’t post on Mastodon… yet :) so posting here. Have to admit, I’ve had a hankering for something like a .laravel file a few times now.

#laravel #php

outofcontrol, 8 months ago to Laravel

TIL that although it’s been around for at least 5 versions of #laravel, we can do this:

if (App::runningUnitTests()) {  
 // Code to include in only tests  
}

if (!App::runningUnitTests()) {  
 // Code to exclude in tests  
}

when running tests. Works in #Pest as well, of course.

outofcontrol, 4 months ago to random

Thinking of migrating to iCloud for my only cloud storage. But how the heck can someone share a file or folder with someone, without forcing them to have an Apple ID?

Sticking with Sync and Dropbox for now I guess.

outofcontrol, 10 months ago to random

Trying to be productive this morning and needing to verify some URLs, which I use Postman for. Lately Postman pops up “Your session has expired. Please sign in again.” more often than not, which apparently requires deleting all local data and revoking all sessions. In my eyes, this is a horrible user experience. In todays world, are there alternatives to #Postman (https://postman.com)? Preferably a native app, not a browser wrapped in something.

outofcontrol, 9 months ago to php

PSA: #PHP 8.0 end-of-life is in about 3 months, on Nov 26, 2023

outofcontrol, 3 months ago to random

Is there a best practices on upgrading a PHP package that appears no longer maintained, but you need it to get up to Laravel 10?

outofcontrol, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to sysadmin

Do you manage your server config files with git ? Why or why not?

#sysadmin #linux

outofcontrol, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

With increasing frustration at the power the fossil fuel industry wields over politicians and the law world wide, I am most likely going to start posting considerably more about the threat against humanity that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for.

Should I:

outofcontrol, 9 months ago to random

A simple #MySQL tip:

Instead of typing exit or quit to leave MySQL, you can type \q

If setting a custom pager in MySQL, pager less for instance, you can reset the pager to the default with \n or nopager

outofcontrol, 4 months ago to random

One month without a drink. Dang, that was hard… especially at Christmas parties.

outofcontrol, 6 months ago to Canada

Any Canadian Historians on Mastodon? Trying to figure out what institute this crest belongs too. On my Uncles (Mom’s side) sweater circa 1947-1950 most likely around Montreal. Possible Vancouver area, but I don’t think he had moved yet. Possibly military. We have very little to go on, as “Bill” committed suicide in ’77, my Mom didn’t cope well, and burnt a lot of his family papers and never talked about him.

#canadianHistory #historian #canada #school #military #genealogy

outofcontrol, 4 months ago to random

Anyone with experience using macOS to remote desktop into Windows 10 Home edition?

outofcontrol, 5 months ago to github

Any #GitHub users/engineers on here that might be able to answer a couple of questions on how to structure a growing Org from the perspective of Actions, Paid vs Free, one Org or Multiple Orgs (per division?). ~200 repos in a single free Org account, Actions are unbearably slow.

outofcontrol, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to webdev

Reading ‘Why Tailwind CSS Won’ and was caught off-guard by this comment from Matt Rickard “few developers are writing HTML (instead, they are writing JSX or TSX).” What do you write mostly?

#tailwind #html #jsx #tsx

outofcontrol, 10 months ago to Laravel

Has anyone been successful in using #fulltext search IN BOOLEAN MODE with pagination in #laravel. All works great until you try a Boolean search with a +, then invalid number of parameters error rears it’s ugly head. Without pagination also works fine. This might work with a custom pagination query, but was hoping someone might have found a better way. #php #mysql

outofcontrol, 4 months ago to random

In a quick review of Insomnium, Bruno and Httpie:

#Httpie didn’t import any of the postman collection auth data, it appears it won’t import/export HAR files, and I don’t see a timeline for a request. Could be I just didn’t see these features.

Insomnium imports collections with all the data, handles HAR files nicely and has a very detailed timeline.

#Bruno imports fine, has a semi detailed timeline, and has some HAR support which I couldn’t figure out.

Currently #Insomnium is my fave.

outofcontrol, 2 months ago to Laravel

And to start of Monday, we have "This database engine does not support fulltext search operations.” when running local tests in sqlite, even though we have verified that fts5 is enabled.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Is it Friday yet?

#pest #laravel #sqlite

outofcontrol, 1 month ago to random

One of my earlier PRs was to the docs, to add a short description for a method that was overlooked in Laravel v3 or v4. I spent ages trying to make sure it was perfect. Then waited anxiously for it to be approved or commented on. Instead, Taylor deleted it and then had some one else do the issue. I’ve not bothered trying to help Laravel since. 😒 Love Laravel, but that put me off in a big way. I now spend my time doing PRs for those that appreciate them instead.