I’m about to write a couple of posts that involve the use of Symbols in JavaScript so thought I better do a quick primer that I can link to for people who aren’t familiar with them. What are Symbols A Symbol is a JavaScript primitive (like a String, Boolean, or Read more…
The Symptoms You have empty coverage reports or there are files missing from your coverage report. You’ve definitely written tests that include those files and can’t figure out what you’re doing wrong. Note that I had this issue with Vue.js and the Vue CLI specifically, it could also be an Read more…
Something that I’ve been looking forward to using post Node 16 is structuredClone(). It’s been available in browser for a little while and was introduced in Node version 17.0.0, it’s an answer to the lack of a decent way to clone objects in JavaScript. Making a shallow clone of an Read more…
Most of us working in software development have probably heard of Quantum Computers and Qubits, you may or may not currently have some understanding of what they are, but did you know you can play around with some real Qubits, running on actual Quantum Computers, online, for free? This was Read more…
Why does it matter? I often discover great new things by looking at other peoples dot configs or seeing what someone has installed while watching a video on YouTube. With that in mind I thought I would write a post sharing some of my favourite themes, fonts and extensions for Read more…
GitHub Copilot I came across this a couple of months ago and signed up for the technical preview. I had mostly forgotten about it until recently when I received an email from GitHub telling me that I now had access. Honestly I’ve been blown away by how good it is 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 that my spellchecker hasn’t and is busy angrily highlighting it 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 over again. The Cause With such a generic error message 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 few elements as they need. However, when you save 1 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 my specific case this wasn’t my server or my website Read more…