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…
UPDATE: I’ve had this post in draft since ehhhhh May 2021 but life took an insane busy turn and it never got finished. So as you guys know, I was pregnant and due June 1st. I knew in the back…
For the longest time, I’ve had the dream of seeing the water a crystal blue in the Caribbean. When Shea and I planned our honeymoon, it seemed like a dream came true when we booked at the lovely Cap Masion…
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…
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…
For once, I was prepared with plans for both major end of year holidays at an early time. Thanksgiving was kind of spent a little scared with COVID. That was the first time we had get togethers (small in comparison…
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.…
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.…
To avoid another social media post that will make my sister roll her eyes, I decided to post about it instead. Also, sorry for the dark pic. It was really late in the evening. “Time to water the garden, Kai”.…
This is pretty basic in the dev world–editing a host file– but I’ve had to type up these instructions waaaaaay too often to send to our Marketing department. This post is purely just for me to send to them and…
Something I learned pretty early in my career is that vertically aligning in CSS isn’t as easy as you would think it would be. It’s not as easy as text-align:center. Nope. In the days of IE 7, I relied a…
While I’m waiting for a script to run, figured I’d do a life update on the blog. I wanted to share something that I haven’t mentioned before on the blog and that is I enjoy gardening. Am I very good…