Here is an excerpt from an Australian mailing list I read called Word For Today. President Reagan enjoyed telling the story of how he learned to make firm decisions.

If you make use of the Laravel framework, here is a code example from Taylor Otwell on how to use cache locking.

As a follow up to the previous entry, you can also include a function to return a casts array for a trait/concern that your eloquent model is using.

In the same way that we can use a boot{Trait}() method in a trait/concern for an eloquent model, it would be nice to be able to register specific date fields in a trait/concern (i.e. Publishable with a published_at timestamp column).

If you want to use a deployment tool like Capistrano or Laravel Envoy with symbolic linked release directories, instead of mapping your script to the path of the symlink with $document_root...

As a continuation of my last post, here is a command if you want to find the total combined size (in kilobytes) of a set of folders or files listed in a text file named file-list.txt.

If you need to narrow down a list of folders in a directory to the set that you need to either archive or cleanup from a linux server, here's a quick command.

If you ever accidentally tag the wrong branch with a release, you can move the release back to the draft stage on GitHub with the following commands.

If you want to launch SublimeText from the command line on macOS, here you go...

If you want to get your tests updated for Laravel 5.4, and need a quick patch for the missing assertJsonContains(), here's a macro that you can place in the createApplication() function...v

I often run into quality issues in Javascript packages that I want to adopt. Most of these issues consist of simple bugs that are worth eradicating with a pull request.

If you want to have supervisor running at boot on an Ubuntu 16.04 server, you need to enable the service after installing it.

iTerm2 is my default terminal on macOS. It's nice to update the configuration a bit from the default settings. iTerm2 Preferences * Navigate to iTerm2 -> Preferences * Uncheck Native full screen

I've been messing around with the Goodreads API this weekend. This API returns XML output for their endpoints. It would be nice to get JSON from them instead, many have even asked for this, but any data format is sufficient enough in the end.

Okay, if you ever need to refocus on an iframe window...

On a personal project, I have recently been working through showing a chart with total monthly views for movies and TV episodes over the last 12 months. When implementing the process of calculating the total views, I came up with a few options in getting the data from the backend to the chart.

Here's a quick tip. If you have embraced the repository pattern for your Laravel application, you may have run into a 502 bad gateway. This can happen if you choose to setup the constructors of one or more classes to mutually direct inject each other.

At the start of the year, I spent part of my day reading through some of the Mailchimp UX Newsletter. It is a treasure trove of advice.

I've been working through usage of Let's Encrypt for free SSL cert generation. I use primarily nginx servers on my projects and wanted a simple way to renew.