Today I learned about the history command in bash. In particular, a keyboard shortcut (!!) to execute the previous command.
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This past week was the 2nd edition of WordCamp Canada (affectionately known by the hashtag #WCEH on “the socials”). Organizing It was my honour last…
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The bash `type` command – showing you how a command would be executed. Wish I knew about this 20 years ago….
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Version 3.x of Spatie’s Laravel CSP package allows you to add presets for common web services to your Content Security Policy.
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It seems like only a short while ago I was writing my recap of WordCamp Canada 2024 – and the next one is just around…
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In the Bluesky (social media platform) web interface, post dates are shown relative to the current date/time. To see the actual post time, you have…
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I was out for a walk a few weeks ago and came across the house pictured above, under construction in my neighbourhood. This reminded me…
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This past week I was part of the organizing team who hosted almost 300 WordPress enthusiasts to Ottawa for the first national WordCamp Canada, Until…
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Laravel 11 has added the ability to discovery policy classes automatically!
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While upgrading an application to Laravel 11, I ran into a breaking change in Carbon 3.x that I wanted to share.
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I have generally been unimpressed with AI as a coding assistant, at least where it’s built into my IDE. (My experimenting as been with GitHub…
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