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…
What Is It? I recently learned about the bat command available on Linux and wanted to share it in case it was useful to anyone else. If you’re like me and you find it easier to read log and config files when they have syntax highlighting bat might be for 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 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…
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 work on (or have worked on in the past). For 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 that essentially says you’re low on disk space, however when Read more…