Category: Software Development

• AI Coding Tools I Use to Ship Faster - Q4 2025
• Category and Tag Pages with Eleventy
• A week with Cursor Agent CLI
• Last modified date of Eleventy posts
• Ditching GitHub
• AI Coding Tools I Use to Ship Faster - June 2025
• Ditching WordPress for Eleventy
• Leaning Into Generative AI Development
• How to move the first element to the end in JavaScript
• Client-side environment variables with Next.js
• Including Dev Dependencies in a DigitalOcean App Platform Build
• How to Delete from a Table with Foreign Key Constraints in MySQL
• Convert string to number with JavaScript
• How to Make Your WordPress RSS Feed Show Full Articles Instantly
• Fix broken Docker networking in GitLab Runner pipeline
• Numeronym in JavaScript
• Stop ESLint from searching up the directory tree
• Airbnb style guide with Next.js
• Mocha tests hang after tests have finished
• How to generate a JSON compile commands database with CMake
• Moving to WordPress from Jekyll
• How to overwrite read-only files with vim
• How to disable the X-Mailer header with PHPMailer
• Filtering WordPress menu items
• Time zone conversion with PHP
• Schedule queries with MySQL
• Fastify not working in Docker
• Horizontal and vertical alignment with Scriptable
• git error: path is unmerged
• Convert a buffer to a string in Node.js
• Generating UUIDs with MySQL
• Using variables in MySQL queries
• Incrementing and decrementing numbers in Vim
• Showing differences of staged files with git
• Using paths to create hierarchies in Parameter Store
• Getting String and SecureString Parameter Store parameters with Node.js
• husky: command not found with npm install --production
• Decrypting SecureString Parameter Store parameters with Node.js
• Add column after another column in MySQL
• Docker Desktop won't reopen on macOS
• How to convert JSON to CSV in JavaScript
• How to convert CSV to JSON in JavaScript
• Tracking daily active users (DAU) with Redis
• How to display a JavaScript array in HTML
• Splitting strings and keeping the separator in JavaScript
• Downloading files in Node.js with Axios
• Best way to pin TypeScript as a dependency
• Remove unnecessary files in node_modules
• Debugging an AWS Lambda that stopped working
• Setting an authorization header when using file_get_contents with PHP
• Find unused npm dependencies
• Repeating Strings in JavaScript
• Uninstalling dev dependencies with npm
• Overengineering Challenge: Is Number Even or Odd in JavaScript
• Recursively create directories with Node.js
• Displaying an entire object with Node.js
• Juggling assertion syntax between PHPUnit versions
• Passing a test without assertions with PHPUnit
• How to comment source code
• Allow dots in paths with webpack-dev-server
• How to get the first and last item from an array in MongoDB
• How to set the background color of a Google Chart
• Increase memory limit for Composer
• How to escape curly brackets in Liquid templates
• Only run step for specific version with GitHub Actions
• Hiding scroll bars while maintaining scroll functionality in modern browsers
• Moving from only syntax to rules syntax in GitLab CI/CD v13.x+
• Recursive functions in TypeScript
• Recursive types and interfaces in TypeScript
• Error: Cannot resolve a DOM point from Slate point
• Resetting a Slate.js editor to an empty state
• Resetting the undo/redo history of a Slate.js editor
• Submit on enter except when shift is pressed in JavaScript
• Detecting modifier keys being pressed with JavaScript
• Protected routes with React Router v5
• Connection reset with webpack-dev-server inside Docker
• Complete CI/CD pipeline with GitLab Runners
• Converting integers to Roman numerals with TypeScript
• Padding strings and numbers with JavaScript
• How to remove an array element by index in JavaScript
• How to loop through all files in an S3 bucket in PHP
• Could not find a declaration file for module
• Symlinks with Nginx and PHP-FPM
• How to exit Vim
• Explaining vs. Communicating
• Solo developers should still do code reviews
• Why would they do it that way?
• Posting code snippets to Slack
• The most efficient way to check the last character of a string with JavaScript
• How to check if a string contains another string with JavaScript
• Left align multiple line list items
• Will Vim die with Bram Moolenaar?
• FizzBuzz in TypeScript 3.0
• How to calculate United States holiday observances
• Stop blaming your hosting company for downtime
• Unique indexes with MongoDB and Mongoose
• How to POST to a webhook in 5 different programming languages
• Chunking an array in JavaScript
• How to !important inline styles in React
• Using <style /> blocks in React
• URL routing in PHP
• PHPUnit with multiple versions of PHP and HHVM on Travis CI
• Days until Christmas in JavaScript
• Adding comments to JSON
• Configuring Jest to show code coverage for all of your files
• Setting defaults for all your SuperAgent requests
• Simple cache busting with Webpack
• Stop over configuring Vim
• React Draft Wysiwyg with MongoDB
• reCAPTCHA is broken
• How to calculate Mother's Day in JavaScript
• Vertical alignment is a waste of time
• Reading a specific line from a file with PHP
• Convert Mongo BSONDocument to an array in PHP
• Programming the same thing in multiple programming languages
• Sourcing external files from your .gitconfig
• Set Vim tab spacing based on the type of file
• Get the day of the week from a date in PHP
• Calculate time left in day in PHP
• Make open source contributions a priority
• How to calculate Easter Sunday in Javascript
• How to capitalize the first character of each word in a string in Javascript
• Migrating from Mandrill to SparkPost
• Multiple buttons with Hubspot's Vex
• How to Capitalize the First Letter in a String in JavaScript
• Using an 11" MacBook Air for development
• Tracking peak users online with Redis
• Email validation via MX lookup in PHP
• Check if a string contains a character with PHP
• Generate random hex color with PHP
• Run a block of PHP code a certain percentage of the time
• CSS :not issue in Safari on iOS9
• Stop submitting feature requests for Open Source Software
• Bitmaps vs. Sets to track Monthly Active Users in Redis
• How to block AdBlock users without JavaScript
• Detect bots and spammers with Project Honey Pot and PHP
• How to convert a string to a time with PHP
• Set array pointer to a specific key or value in PHP
• Basic page routing in PHP
• Using PHP's built-in web server
• Outline numbering for an object tree
• Layout with fixed header and independently scrolling columns
• Working with Dynamic variable names a/k/a Variable variables in PHP
• Open Challenge: Learn Lisp with Me
• Get all defined variables in PHP
• Working with JSON in PHP
• Handling click and touch events on the same element
• Truncate string with ellipses with PHP
• Get date for Easter in PHP
• Chat Personas
• Serializing and unserializing variables in PHP
• Decouple your code from your web server
• Calculate the length of a string with PHP
• How to get a server's hostname in PHP
• Never stop learning
• How to save a remote file to disk with PHP
• Basic HTTP Authentication with PHP
• Life of Pi - Working with Pi in PHP
• How to replace a string with a string in PHP
• Developer titles are bullshit, Part 2 - Universal titles
• How to round numbers with PHP
• Developer titles are bullshit, Part 1 - The lifecycle of a developer
• Converting decimal to other number systems with PHP
• To infinity and beyond! Working with infinity in PHP
• Finding the smallest or largest value with PHP
• Find the largest value in an array with PHP
• Find the lowest value in an array with PHP
• How to convert an array to a string with PHP
• Days until Christmas in PHP
• How to reverse a string with PHP
• Node.js on the command-line
• How to generate a date range with PHP
• How to convert a string to an array with PHP
• The cost of convenience
• Sort an array in reverse order with PHP
• Pull random values from an array with PHP
• Difference between dates with PHP
• Benchmarking PHP code
• How to generate the Fibonacci sequence with PHP
• Stop Accommodating Shortcomings
• How to connect to MongoDB using PHP
• Thoughts on API design
• How to merge two sorted PHP arrays without array_merge() or sort()
• Visibility in PHP
• The definition of "done"
• Simple PHP i18n internationalization and localization class
• Debugging Invalid XML in PHP
• Writing unit tests for legacy code
• jQuery plugin to calculate read time
• Fizz Buzz in PHP
• How to execute an HTTP POST using PHP cURL
• Looping through a date range with PHP
• Difference between break; and continue; in PHP
• PHP without fancy braces
• Debugging SimpleXML Objects with PHP
• Parsing SOAP responses with PHP's SimpleXML
• How to calculate Independence Day observances with PHP
• The importance of a staging environment
• How to parse XML with PHP's SimpleXML
• Checking your IMAP email using PHP
• How to calculate Mother's Day and Father's Day with PHP
• The receiving end of a DDoS Attack
• How to pipeline with phpredis
• How to process PUT requests with PHP
• URL Routing with PHP
• Google Places PHP Library
• Reducing Redis used memory by moving back to MySQL
• Compressing and uncompressing a string with PHP
• PHP's /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead
• Transactions with PHP Data Objects (PDO)
• The importance of code editor proficiency
• How to zero fill a number with PHP
• How to get keys from an associative array in PHP
• Passing variables to anonymous PHP functions
• Opt-out responsive design using LESS
• Using list() with foreach() in PHP
• "Failed to open page" on Windows Phone 8
• How to use Generators in PHP
• String dereferencing or How to extract a single character from a string with PHP
• Easily identify duplicate properties in your CSS files
• Catching multiple PHP exceptions
• How to write files to disk with PHP
• How to use try/catch statements in PHP. Oh, and finally too!
• Gravatar as an identicon generation service
• How to use switch/case statements in PHP
• Improve performance by reusing PHP objects
• How I saw the test-driven light
• PHP 5.5 syntax highlighting for Vim
• That time I got ripped off on Flippa
• How to error when setting undefined class properties in PHP
• Ground up rewrites should be a last resort not the status quo
• How to calculate Thanksgiving's date with PHP
• My Experience with Wizpert
• How to convert a negative number to a positive number with PHP
• PHP's HereDoc versus NowDoc
• How to handle daylight savings time in PHP
• Temporary ufw rules or How I learned to stop scripting and love the shell
• Split an array into chunks with PHP
• Shuffle an associative array with PHP
• Incrementing / Decrementing a String with PHP
• The Pitfalls of Using BuySellAds
• Simple Probability Distribution with PHP
• Incrementing / Decrementing a Number by a Number with PHP
• The Complexity of Permalinks and Slugs with User Generated Content
• Sorting an associative array by a specific key with PHP
• How to convert a CSV file into an array with PHP
• How to Determine if it is Friday the 13th with PHP
• Building a Number Guessing Game in PHP
• How to Terminate a PHP Script
• How to Pluralize Words with PHP
• How to Output Variables within Strings with PHP
• Why Limit the Format of a Password?
• How to Use Colors in Command-line PHP Output
• How to Compare Numeric Variables with PHP
• How to check if a variable is an integer with PHP
• How to Strip Whitespace from a String with PHP
• How to Increment / Decrement a Number with PHP
• While you were out - while loops in PHP
• Version Control for Individuals
• New Lines in Command-line PHP Output
• How to Output Strings in PHP
• How to Capture User Input from Command-line PHP
• The Importance of a Logout Page
• How to Generate a Random Number with PHP
• Using Transactions with PHP Data Objects (PDO)
• How to Use Prepared Statements in PHP
• How to Connect to a Database with PHP Data Objects (PDO)
• Split a String by Letters with PHP
• Passing Arguments to Command-Line PHP
• MySQL and Redis Command Equivalents
• Calculating page load time / execution time with PHP
• Check if PHP is running from the command-line
• Check if a PHP class exists
• Check if a PHP class has a certain function
• Check if a PHP function exists
• Detect Required PHP Version
• Convert Errors to Exceptions in PHP
• How to Build a Leaderboard with PHP and Redis
• Getting a User's IP Address in PHP
• PHP Redis Clients
• SQLite as a PHP Session Handler
• Redis as a PHP Session Handler
• Memcached as a PHP Session Handler
• Installing PHP Redis - A PHP Extension for Redis
• Calculate Age from Date with PHP
• Configuring PHP Sessions
• PHP Login System
• PHP Session Handling
• Sending Email from PHP
• Password Hashing Techniques in PHP
• Encrypting Passwords in PHP
• Specifying a User Agent when using file_get_contents() in PHP
• LESS Icons for easy styling and customization
• Browser redirect with PHP
• Advice on Freelancing
• How I use Redis
• PHP: Built for the web
• Blocking Proxy Sites with JavaScript
• Going Vanilla with MySQL
• Node.js for Web Apps? Not so much.
• Lessons learned about directory based sharding
• Review: Anatomy Framework
• Command line website uptime checker using the OS X Notification Center
• DKIM with multiple domains with Exim4
• Go fork yourself you forking fork
• Drain your InnoDB Buffer Pool by moving large fields out of MySQL
• Why developers (maybe everyone) suck at estimates
• Version Control: It doesn't matter what system you use
• WorkFlowy: Adventures in Text Parsing
• Why you don't make $80k+ and how you can get there
• TeuxDeux: Adventures in Screen Scraping
• Quality over cost or how PennySMS sucks and I switched to Twilio
• What could you do in 10k?
• Oh, how awkward.
• Are Flash developers the new COBOL developers?
• Super massive content update
• Smarty Function: State Drop Down
• Using SQL's IN syntax to search multiple fields
• Nonogram Demo in PyGTK
• All Music Guide (AMG) Tagging Script
• PHP Warning: Module 'mcrypt' already loaded
• Firefox 3.0.1 on Mac OS X weirdness