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Dozens of miscellaneous tips: https://laraveldaily.com/tips Tighten s Technical Debt Self-Assessment for Developers Use Laravel Pint or Tighten Duster they re so easy to use (versus doing lots of manual PhpStorm configuration, for example) and you can add them as git pre-commit hooks which will only scan files that have changed, so they ll be fast. Pint is Continue reading "2023 Laravel tip…
The symptom here was continual unwanted SMART warnings from the realtime protector which didn t go away despite turning it off. Login to the Micromat site where you bought it from, and on the My Products page, redownload the installer. Open it, as if you were installing the application you will reach a step where Continue reading "Uninstalling Techtool Pro reliably"
(In short, my main objection is taking away the user s ability to silence or set a lower volume.) Is there anything the UK has got right about this? Well they ve done the advance publicity about as well as they could. And this https://www.gov.uk/alerts/current-alerts is a handy page. (I d quibble with why that can t Continue reading "The case for turning off UK emergency alerts (a cynic writes )"
This post by Juliette Culver is over 12 years old but is still one of my favourite explanations of what s wrong with Drupal and WordPress for developers. Nowadays, Statamic (and the Laravel ecosystem in general) is a fantastic alternative if you re a PHP specialist.
This is quite common on older Macs. The symptom is you see the usage of the card but not the free space in the Finder status bar. It s due to poor tolerances in the drive, perhaps dirt build up as well, although using an air blower didn t help. What worked for me was positioning the Continue reading "Tip: Mac SDHC/SDXC card readers wrongly showing cards as read only"
Occasionally you may need to cancel an Amazon (UK) order that s dispatching soon on doing this Amazon say they ll attempt to, but then a short while later you get an email telling you in fact they can t, and to refuse delivery or print a return label. The solution in this case is to change Continue reading "Tip: When Amazon won t cancel an order that s dispatching soon "
At present, there are two pieces of software that I consider superb PhpStorm (a program by an astonishingly talented Prague-based company, which I use to write PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS etc. and which error-checks your code to within an inch of it s life before you even run it) and now, Adobe Lightroom[1]Although, as it Continue reading "In praise of Lightroom Classic"
Expandrive is a program that lets you mount external connections (SSH servers, Google Drive etc.) as volumes on a Mac, so you can drag/drop/save/load as if they were local. Both the old version I had (6.4.7) and the newest release of version 7 essentially won t connect to anything at all for me either servers Continue reading "Software to avoid: ExpanDrive"
e.g. you re trying to view the package contents of the Photos Library (in /Users/[username]/Pictures/), so you can check an original file, RAW image, etc. but you re not thinking properly, accidentally click the wrong option in the menu and send the entire contents to the Recycle Bin by mistake. You stop the deletion immediately, and Continue reading "You accidentally deleted your entire Apple…
Is it any good? Meh. But I ve reached the stage where I ll no longer disable it by default. Will it save you any time? That depends on who you are and what you re doing / writing. There are keyboard shortcuts (if you post often enough to memorise them), but you ll probably find yourself using the Continue reading "The WordPress Gutenberg block editor a FAQ for cynics"