I can’t remember the last time I used a system with a spinning hard drive. I should really put a drill bit through these old drives. Job for the weekend I think.
Searching old storage drives for some software that I think I wrote about 20 years ago. I'm sure the code is junk, but I'm interested to take a look at it as it might come in handy for a project I'm working on. Anyway, I really should organise my backups better.
Just subscribed to the "How To Code Well" podcast -- because I need all the help I can get.
This morning I am mostly playing around with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Puppeteer to dynamically create Open Graph images.
The Steam Autumn sale is on and I’m definitely not going to buy any games that’ll sit in my Steam library and never get played.
This afternoon I've been playing with PHP and GD to dynamically create Open Graph images. I then moved a website from a shared host to a VPS -- the VPS is proper quick in comparison.
This morning I am mostly writing SQL queries for reports. I've also converted values in a db table column from plain text to json strings to allow for multiple values. Feels a bit hacky, but works ok. Should probably create another table at some point.
This picture on the BBC News website is triggering me.
That feeling when you've been concentrating intensely on solving a problem, you solve the problem and then look up from your monitors to wonder where you are even located in meatspace.
Starting my day by converting a small CodeIgniter 3 app to CodeIgniter 4. It's a microservice and it only has 2 routes and 2 controllers, so it should be a quick win.
Replacing some manually installed PHP libraries with Composer dependencies. I'm sure they were only ever installed manually as a stopgap, but I can't help think it would have been cleaner and possibly easier to use Composer in the first place.
Watching the Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary in my lunch. It's bringing back fond memories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto
I recently read a toot from someone who was frustrated with Ubuntu because of snapd and was asking for recommendations for other Debian based distributions. Why was Debian itself not the obvious choice?
This is Bumble. Bumble has to be the most chilled cat I’ve ever known. He’s a real mummy’s boy, but he tolerates me as well, so that’s nice.
Using Mozilla's web-ext tool to lint and package a browser extension for Firefox that was originally written for Chrome. Just needed to make a single modification to the manifest file and everything just worked. Nice.
I've just found out that we are outsourcing Secret Santa this year. What a time to be alive.
Looking at an old version of Dompdf and considering if I should update it, or switch the app to use a service built with Puppeteer or similar. I'm thinking Puppeteer might provide faster PDF renders.
Deleting session files and pushing the limits of rm: exec: Failed to execute process '/usr/bin/rm': the total size of the argument list and exported variables (5.5MB) exceeds the OS limit of 2MB.
Trying to get an old PHP application updated to work with PHP 8.2. I'm hitting a bunch of errors and I'm working my way through them, slowly.
For some reason, I had it in my head that most systems allowed hyphens in hashtags. Apparently this is not the case. I should really look these things up before making assumptions in code.
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