Developer
It’s been six weeks to the day since the Automattic layoffs, so it seems fitting to finally gather my thoughts about it. I haven’t blogged publicly for quite a while, not counting the odd code snippet post. But in the last few months I’ve been itching more
dev log
I kept struggling to remember what the type predicate was in Typescript... turns out I just didn't really know what a 'predicate' is in the first place... shakes fist darn you grammar!
Developer
FeathersJS v4 switched from storing the jwt token in a cookie to localStorage. This was fine when the app stayed on one domain, but when splitting things out into several apps on different subdomains I realised unlike cookies localStorage does not play nicely. I found the Customization option in the
code
When restructuring my project and moving it to use Create React App I've ended up with an odd error for my shared jsx components (I've split the project into two separate apps but some of the styling and UI components will be the same so didn&
Developer
It might have been the late hour but spent over 1.5h chasing this the other day... and getting tangled up in config and softdelete2 feathers-plus hooks. Turns out to setup soft deletes in FeathersJS using feathers-sequelize you only need the Sequelize built in paranoid option. Here's the
fix
Another note to self post... since this bit me more than once. ssh USER@SERVER ... packet_write_wait: Connection to IP_ADDRESS port 22: Broken pipe Most of the answers point to the ServerAliveInterval or ClientAliveInterval but if you are running the command from inside VMWare Workstation (broken for me
Developer
Recently started getting the following error when trying to run git gui. Googling the issue didn't seem to help much. Error in startup script: bad pad value "2m": must be positive screen distance while executing "grid $w.bitmap $w.msg -in $w.top -sticky news
code
I've been playing around with FeathersJS and one thing that has been hard to find is a concrete example of setting up Sequelize with related tables. Here's an example of the users table referencing a user_statuses table using the new model.associate() syntax including populating
wordpress
As part of cleanup and cost-cutting I had to recently moved my WordPress installations from one server to another. To make matters a bit more complicated the new server was not a cPanel based one. So, I had to move my WordPress instances, but not really the user accounts that
Developer
I've got the extraction options for tgz files pretty well ingrained in my brain, but whenever I had to create an archive I always had to go back to the manual. Not any more! Annoyed at my terrible memory I created a little mnemonic for myself. Here'
work
Sometimes you have to take one step back to take two forward. Or in other words, never say never. Or to put it in simple terms – I’ve gone perm again… I’ve been pretty happy with the contracting work I’ve done over the last year and a bit.
Designer
At my new job we use MantisBT for our bug tracking and project management. Unfortunately despite good functionality the visual side is desperately lacking some love and attention. Tired of looking at the barely styled web app I decided to spruce it up a little bit. A teaser of the