Deleting multiple branches in git
Holy cow it’s been awhile since I posted anything. I blinked and it’s summer! It’s been pretty busy with a now 2 year old who is definitely getting her personality. Anywho, this will be a savior for anyone who uses…
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Hardcoding
So I’ve been trying to switch servers at work and let’s just say it’s been a freakin’ nightmare. Our servers are dated and to start off fresh, I suggested we setup new ones and move the app over. Simple right?…
Using Sed in Bash scripts
Let me start out by saying I am NOT a script girl. I’ve worked with PHP for a decade and love my use of spacing. I’ve written 1 bash script that clones a database on a remote server and saves…
Imposter Syndrome
Note: This is not a post for the cure to Imposter Syndrome. Just getting that out right now. I’ve noticed something over my years working as a dev When work starts to slow down, imposter syndrome kicks in hard. I…
Lighthouse GraphQL PHPUnit Test
I’ll admit. I’m out of practice with unit testing. We don’t really have a good setup db/seeding wise and making a crap ton of factories just took up a lot of time. Not to mention we use GraphQL which I…
CPU 100%
Not something you want to see in an email when you’re on “vaca” (ie. teething baby). At least it didn’t crash the server several times. The database was up to 400% usage too. Wheee. I will be the first to…
Foreign Key events & Laravel Soft Deletes
Never really noticed how great foreign keys were until I started a job that just didn’t have any in the database. That also being said, foreign key events are even nicer to implement and takes a LOT of pressure off…
Let’s Encrypt DNS-01 Failure Challenge
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything dev related. Well here I am. It was kind of a weird issue. Note: servers is the weakest part of my knowledge base. Luckily, this happened on staging and not production. We have…
Refresh local db bash script
Before my new job, I was used to having a script that would automatically pull a fresh copy of the production database at my command using AWS. With the current setup at work, it’s more of a manual deal which…
Laravel’s whereJsonContains method
At my new job, they use a couple of different data column types in mySQL that I never actually knew existed until I started here. One of them is array and the other is json. Of course I knew these…
Laravel’s `chunkById`
So I started a new job at the beginning of the month. While I’m learning a lot, at the same time, it’s familiar because it’s mainly Laravel. At the same time, I’m always learning new gotchas with Laravel as well.…
Force Download in WordPress for PDF files
This was actually rocket science. Or it felt like it. It should have been quick and simple. Took me a bit more than I would like to admit. So we had a WordPress site with a lot of downloadable PDFs.…