I decided to write about something non technical for a change! Hanno (sometimes referred to as Hannon) was a Carthaginian explorer from the 5th century BCE and he’s famous for his naval exploration of the west coast of Africa. He Read more…
So a few months ago I built myself a new computer and I thought it would be fun to run some benchmarks and find out exactly hoe much difference enabling XMP really makes. For reference here are the relevant specs Read more…
The title of this article should probably read “Kilobytes vs Kibibytes and why I hate them”, even the more technically capable of you who stumble across this blog may never have heard of a Kibibyte, I know for a fact Read more…
The Symptoms You log on to a server that is having performance issues, you do some basic troubleshooting only to find a PHP error log, several gigabytes in size, that contains just the one, particularly unhelpful, error message… over and Read more…
The Symptoms You’re trying to save a page in WordPress that contains a large number of ACF fields, perhaps you have a custom page builder and it uses a repeater field so that users can add as many or as Read more…
The Backstory I was recently asked by a client to enable the passthru function in PHP, you may have been asked something similar with the exec function or a handful of others that are often disabled for security reasons. In Read more…
I had an issue recently when trying to copy and paste some code from a project running on Mongoose version 4.x to Mongoose version 5.x, the projects are both related and since one of the projects needs to use multiple Read more…
What Are You Testing? I’m testing how well a variety of different popular archive types compress a various different types of data. This test was inspired by my need to keep backups of various different websites and projects that I Read more…
SPF The first thing that you’ll want to check is that you have SPF setup. SPF lets the receiving mail server know that you are authorised to send an email from @your-domain-here.com and it works by adding a DNS record Read more…
The Symptoms You might be getting errors that make it sound like there is no space left on one of your servers disks. You might see messages like “ENOSPC” or “No space left on device” or any other generic error Read more…