I’m currently using the web interface of mastodon.social [edit: on Apple devices] —
Do I need to use an app, or switch instances, or a different Fediverse alternative?
I don’t really need much, I would be okay with just bold and italics.
🆕 blog! “Getting Auth0 user information on non-firewall Symfony pages”
I am using Auth0's Symfony library to allow users to log in with their social network providers. It works really well. Using this firewall configuration, a user who visits /private is successfully taken through the login flow and I can then use $this->getUser() to see their de…
Want to know how many people are clicking links to email you from your site using GA4? -> How to Track Mailto Links in Google Analytics 4 Using Google Tag Manager (GTM)
GA4 will be taking over soon. I highly recommend getting your hands dirty now. And specific tutorials are great, but I highly recommend taking a course that covers many aspects of GA4.
🆕 blog! “Symfony - multiple paths to the same route within a controller”
I couldn't work out how to use Route Aliasing within my controller. I couldn't find anything in the documentation about it. But, thanks to a StackOverflow comment it is possible. Suppose you want users to be able to access a page using /users/123 and /people/123 - with both routes …
Who remembers the age of the HOWTO, where one could get subject-specific help on how to use their CD burner, how to set up WvDial for their dial-up PPP connection to surf the Internet, or other topical subjects of the era?
🆕 blog! “Fixing a weird issue with Symfony's Cache”
I'm just getting started with Symfony, so I'm blogging some of the weird things I'm finding. Symfony has a concept of Cache Contracts. You can call an expensive / slow / intensive operation and immediately cache the result for a specific time period. Next time you call the operation, the results are served from the […]
🆕 blog! “Doctrine - how to use LIKE with dbal prepared statements”
I'm just getting started with Symfony, so I'm blogging some of the weird things I'm finding. I want to use Doctrine dbal to search a database for a partial match. For example searching for "smith" should find "blacksmith" and "smithy". I have a prepared statement like this: $queryBuilder = $co…
I just published a short guide explaining how to upgrade PostgreSQL 🐘 from version 14 to 15 on Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) 🦞 after upgrading it from version 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) 🐐
🆕 blog! “Using Pandoc to format a Dissertation from Markdown to HTML, PDF, and ePub”
Metawork is so much more fun than real work. Sharpening your pencils. Colour coordinating your filing system. Creating Gantt charts of what you intend to do. Marvellous! In that spirit, here's how I used the venerable pandoc to convert my MSc disserta…
I have a headless server - one without a GUI - which I use as a NextCloud client. My laptop, phone, tablet, and server all sync with a cloud-based NextCloud instance. But, sadly, NextCloud don't offer a way for servers to speak to servers. If you try to run apt install nextcloud it will try […]
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Like any sensible Windows user with a hoard of different competing games store launchers, emulated games and manually installed games littering his hard drive, I use Playnite. Which is probably the best integrated games launcher there is.