For all those annoying little issues.
So you’ve written your tests in Jest and now you’re either getting warning messages in your console, perhaps about event emitters or memory leaks, or maybe you’ve pushed up to a remote repository like BitBucket and now your Pipelines are failing and you can’t quite figure out why. I’ve had Read more…
The Problem I had another developer ask me about this a few months ago. He had a SystemD service that kept dying, there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to when it died but it always happened at 1AM. To put it another way it didn’t die every day Read more…
So you have a component in your application that uses a file input to return a FileList and now you want to write some tests for it, there is a problem however, JavaScript doesn’t provide a constructor for FileList’s meaning you can’t do anything along the lines of: Now you 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…
Symptoms You might come across this issue on any number of cloud / virtual server providers, it’s usually an issue that occurs on quite small instances. You have a database, it’s running just fine, then out of the blue it crashes, it keeps happening intermittently at random times but it Read more…
Zoom Problems I’ve been spending a lot of time on Zoom recently with a group of other developers and came across a slightly annoying issue were every time someone would share their screen the Zoom notification would open as a full screen window, obscuring the window I was working on 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…
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 databases the authentication database is separate. Mongo/Mongoose both support this Read more…