Following on from my tradition I decided to start last year, totally in no way inspired by Freek at all honest, here is my 2020. More Personal Life Changes This year I returned to my previous job at Connexin, and…
Never Be Afraid To Rebuild
I see a lot in software development this idea of “its always been this way” or “we spent a lot of time building that so we’ll have to live with it” and this is a dangerous mindset. One that, if…
Port514 Sucked As A Name. Long Live logbreeze
In my last post on Port514 I gave an overview of what the product will do upon launch and introduced it to the world. Since then, I’ve been busy tweaking the backend to make it more stable and scalable and…
Port514 – An Introduction
For a long time I’ve been wanting to make a SaaS product. Over the years this started as a complex product that realistically was too much for me as one solo dev to build. Heck, I’ve even blogged about it…
Repair Windows 10 Without Reinstallation
Recently, I ran in to some funky issues with Windows on my PC. My instant thought was “Oh god, another reinstall” but luckily, that wasn’t the case. Thankfully Microsoft knows how unreliable Windows can be, so with Windows 10 you…
How To Use UUIDs Instead of Numeric IDs in Laravel 7
There are many reasons you may wish to use a UUID instead of a numerical ID in your Laravel 7 project, and in this post I will document the process for doing so. First, you’ll want to update any migrations…
How To Force Your iPhone on EE To Connect via IPv4 in 2020
Over the past few months or however long its been happening, EE have been transitioning their network over to IPv6-first. This is great, as IPv6 is the future but the problem is that they don’t gracefully handle IPv4-only resources. They…
Smaller Customers Matter
I’ve always thought, you can tell how much a company cares by how they treat their smallest customer.
How To Stop All Docker Containers
Have you ever wanted to stop all Docker containers running on your machine? Well, today is your lucky day! The following command is all you need to stop all containers! That’s it! That will stop them all and you can…
How To Use UUIDs Instead of Numeric IDs in Laravel 6
There are many reasons you may wish to use a UUID instead of a numerical ID in your Laravel 6 project, and in this post I will document the process for doing so. First, you’ll want to update any migrations…