Turns out there’s a few different mechanisms to remove a package from your composer project. It’s important to understand what each method does and what its side effects are. (more…)

I was calibrating my speakers the other day, so I searched and found a Bass Test YouTube video. Later on, I was thinking about the presentation I saw where some guys made a DJ system with Tone.js and I wondered if it made sense to make a bass test website and/or app. (more…)

I don’t want this to turn into a rant, but… (more…)

One of the most rewarding things I’ve done as a programmer was watch a real life in person focus group use my application. At first, I didn’t enjoy it. But like most lessons, looking back, it was extremely valuable. (more…)

Historically, I’ve always created virtual boxes with apache environments with vagrant like this or recently a combined docker image like that. But, as I do more front end work as well, I realized these were pretty heavy weight. (more…)

Laravel has a built in request helper called wantsJson() that determines if the request is requesting JSON with the Accept: application/json header. But, what if you want to only accept JSON responses? I set up a Laravel middleware that rejects anything that isn’t JSON. (more…)

First, to start out, I need to make one thing abundantly clear: This piece is just a bunch of assumptions, generalizations and feelings. I’ve gathered these together after all of my own experiences. That’s why I add the most important auxiliary verb may. (more…)

Despite the “catchy” title, this is one of my pet-peeves: when developers put a p tag inside of a table like they would use a <tr><td> combo. This is often done when there is a variable amount of values - including zero - listed in a table. (more…)

For some clients, I have to VPN before I can push to their git repositories. I’ve been using a few VPN clients, but I finally settled on one. I’m a huge fan of Shimo but one thing that bothered me was that I still had to click and remember to be on VPN when I wanted to push my changes. (more…)

I guess I should RTFM more often… but I didn’t remember (or know??) that MySQL truncate table causes an implicit commit. (more…)