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Prettier in Docker

Sat Nov 12, 2022 Coding Format Prettier

I’m working on a PHP project and code review brought up some formatting issues in my CSS.

I wanted to added automated formatting of these files accessible to everyone in the team without them having to install node as this isn’t a JavaScript project.

We already use Docker so that seemed an obvious choice.

Laravel Formatting with ‘Pint’

Sat Nov 12, 2022 Laravel Coding Format Pint

Code reviews are a real opportunity to learn from each other - we each write code a little differently and bring with us a range of experience. So much better to spend time on this than debating blank lines.

I’m also slightly dyslexic and find it hard to even see the issues some care passionately about.

I want to do the right thing for the team but going through code line by line and applying a strict set of rules is not something I am good at or enjoy.

Computers are good at following rules though.

Laravel Without Cookies

Thu Nov 10, 2022 Laravel Cookies GDPR

I used Drupal for years and recently I’m using Laravel for a project.

There is a lot to like about Laravel - but one thing that seems odd to me is the cookie handling.

See How a Docker Image was Built

Tue Nov 8, 2022 docker

I had a docker image and couldn’t find the Dockerfile but wanted to see what was in it

docker image history --no-trunc --format="{{.CreatedBy}}" imagename

Laravel Docker Code Coverage

Mon Nov 7, 2022 Laravel Testing PHPUnit Sonarqube

How to get code coverage reports from PHPUnit to Sonarqube

I started already having an environment using docker-compose but without xdebug the unit tests couldn’t generate coverage reports.

Git Cherry Pick Unstaged

Mon Nov 7, 2022 git note-to-self

I wanted to borrow a commit from another branch

git cherry-pick -n some-commit
git reset

Laravel 419 Phpunit

Thu Nov 3, 2022 laravel phpunit

A common problem with Laravel seems to be getting 419 errors.

If you have fixed these except for during testing : disable caching.

Monitoring CSP errors via Sentry.io

Wed Jan 19, 2022 Monitoring CSP Sentry.io Security

I love the extra security CSP brings - but it’s still a bit new to me and I hadn’t setup reporting because this is a static site and I didn’t think I had anywhere easy to send the errors.

However I use Sentry for another project and realised that it offers easy CSP reporting.

Unicode

Tue Jan 18, 2022 unicode character encoding golang UTF-8

A couple of things about UTF-8 have eluded me for a while …

I knew that the first bit of ASCII (the bit people agreed on) is the same in ASCII and UTF-8

I knew that the rest of Unicode needs 2 or 3 bytes

But I wasn’t clear how you could tell how many bytes needed to be read at a time

And mostly I didn’t need to because the computer does it all for me - but those bits of vagueness can catch you out and so I went down the rabbit hole and it turns out to be fairly short.

Prometheus Excess CPU/RAM Issue

Wed May 19, 2021 monitoring prometheus note-to-self

A key part of any modern infrastructure is good monitoring, even on my local desktop system I like to have monitoring in place so that if a problem gradually builds up I can trace where it started.

Unfortunately in this case the monitoring system actually caused the problem and Prometheus was using up all my system CPU and RAM.