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Cross-Language Queues: Sending Jobs from Node.js to Laravel - blog.thms.uk
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Did you know you can push jobs into a Laravel queue from outside your application? Whether you're offloading tasks from a Node.js service or integrating Laravel with external systems, queues make it easy to handle background processing efficiently. In this post, I'll show you how to send a...
on Mar 19
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Adding comments to your blog, powered by mastodon - blog.thms.uk
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Adding mastodon-powered comments to your blog - how to create a dependency free solution to add comments to your blog using the Mastodon API.
on Mar 3
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Installing and configuring Plausible Analytics Community Edition on Ubuntu - blog.thms.uk
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Running through how to install Plausible Analytics Community Edition with its requirements on a bare Ubuntu server.
on Jan 31
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So my GP surgery just emailed to say that from February they will completely stop giving out appointments. Instead you need to fill in a 'consultation form’ that's reviewed by a GP (I bet in reality it’ll be reviewed by a nurse at best, a receptionist in real life) who decides whether you...
on Jan 30
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Interesting. Shame it won’t be available on Apple/Google Wallet! https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/digital-driving-licences-smartphones-tech-hd6ktb3d0
on Jan 18
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How (and why) to change Mastodon's Referrer Policy - blog.thms.uk
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Set Mastodon's HTTP Referrer Policy to allow passing on the referrer origin (i.e. your domain name) when users click external links.
on Jan 17
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Creating a Custom PHP Carbon formatter using macros - blog.thms.uk
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Using a Carbon macro to customise formatting of date intervals.
on Jan 8
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Personally I'm twice disappointed with Mastodon today: Firstly, I think their Wrapstodon is poorly done: The UI (colours, proportions etc) look poor and out of touch with the rest. The Biden joke and opaque 'archetype’ names are in-jokes that only a tiny minority will get, and the metrics about...
on Dec 4
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With mastodon's new Wrapstodon thing rolling out on their own instance, I went hunting on how to generate these reports. Thanks to @lutoma@ohai.social who provided me with instructions, I've written a short blog post on this...
on Dec 3
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How to generate Mastodon's Annual Reports / 'Wrapstodon' - blog.thms.uk
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This post explains how you can run Mastodon's Annual Report on your mastodon instance.
on Dec 3
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Smart Routing with Nginx: Serving Different Sites Based on IP and Cookies - blog.thms.uk
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This post shows how you can use nginx to set a different website root based on a combination of the visitor's IP address and cookies. You can use this to allow staff and contractors to test a new site, whilst regular visitors still see the old site.
on Jul 23
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Using Visual MySQL Explain with Laravel - blog.thms.uk
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Using mysqlexplain.com's new Visual Explain mode to analyse and improve query performance in Laravel
on Jul 15
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Using MySQL Views with Laravel - blog.thms.uk
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Using MySQL views with Laravel allows you to encapsulate a lot of logic in a model class, which simplifies code, and can improve performance over eager-loading lots of relationships.
on Jul 11
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@grmpyprogrammer@phpc.social tbf, I don’t think I’ve ever tried to debug a running app with xDebug either. Always just my dev app.
on Jul 5
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Using session cookies with Node.js and Axios - blog.thms.uk
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This post shows how to use `axios-support-wrapper` to add support for `tough-cookies` to the Axios HTTP client in Node.js, so that you can use session cookies in Node.js
on Jun 26
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Oh the irony that Meta’s Threads out of all services has a robots.txt that just blank disallows everything 😅 ``` User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` https://www.threads.net/robots.txt
on Jun 26
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@leah@chaos.social OK, that's done now. UA's should have the format `FediFetcher (+mstdn.thms.uk; https[:]//go.thms.uk/ff)` It'll probably be a little while until all installs of FediFetcher have been updated though… Let me know if that helps!
on Jun 25
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I built something - blog.thms.uk
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Etsy Merchant Feeds allows you to create a product feed of your Etsy listings to use when tagging posts on Instagram, or creating Google Shopping ads.
on Jun 9
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Event Listeners in Laravel 11 - blog.thms.uk
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Simplifying event listener registration in Laravel 11
on May 24
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Looks like @ivory@tapbots.social finally has quote boosts 🥳🎉 Really like the way it’s displaying the username as well now. Very pretty! #IvoryApp
on Mar 13, 2024
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Woha, this is unexpected: in a future update mastodon will automatically turn off open registration if no mod has logged in for a week or longer: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318 This is great news, and should hopefully significantly cut down on abandoned servers being used to...
on Feb 29, 2024
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@fuomag9@lime.fuo.fi I’m not sure it would actually help: 1) there is no causal relation between servers that are part of the current wave and the software version. 2) servers that run on managed hosting get the updates automatically, but may not have thought about hCaptcha etc because it’s...
on Feb 20, 2024