A collection of writing and
resources to do with working with Linux, especailly Debian, AWS Cloud Dev-ops, PHP Web Development with Laravel, Building this website as a Static Site with Jigsaw and making it all pretty with Tailwind CSS.
Looking For Allrounder Role Devops SEO Design Development Creative
I wanted to right a new post about the sort of job role I am looking for. In the past I have had a wide variety of roles from Creative Graphic Designer to Laravel Developer. So I wanted to outline the sort of roles I would be suitable for and to help...
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Mysql speed improvements and query optimisation
January 19, 2023
Yesterday, I came across an issue where a Laravel spider I had running crawled to a snails pace. It was running by selecting a url from the database, using curl to get the html, extracting the title,...
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Upgrading PHP to version 8.2 on Debian Linux
January 16, 2023
Today I decided to upgrade my PHP version to 8.2 on my local Debian desktop to test compatability with Laravel versions 8 and 9 and soon to be version 10 of laravel! I wrote a blog previously about...
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PHP Functions for Domain Names and IP Addresses
December 17, 2022
I am working on a project that involves lots of domain names and splitting the actual domain name and the top level domain from the url. The PHP function parse_url is a good starting point for...
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Awesome AllotmentAndy
December 16, 2022
There are many useful github repos of links to topics called Awesome. I wanted to make something similar and some of my favourite Awesome pages include: chiraggude/awesome-laravel...
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SEO
December 12, 2022
I was looking into resources for SEO and found this image on this Github repository which I thought was a rather good summary of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). It is at the bottom of this page....
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Adding Tiktok Links To My Social Media Link Extractor Package
December 11, 2022
Adding tiktok links to my Social Media Link Extractor package on github and packagist.
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Typesense outputing the search results part 2
December 10, 2022
After the sucess of getting the basic search engine working. I looked at outputing the data as a neat webpage and also adding more fields and data to the json import. This is a second part to build...
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Emergency Debian Commands when the computer crashes to try and save it
December 9, 2022
I have an old laptop that often crashes when i use it. I was taking a backup of the files on it, but it seemed to hang a lot and became unresponsive so I wanted to write a blog post about how to...
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Setting Up A Typesense Website Search Engine
December 6, 2022
I wanted to setup a search engine for the urls and pages for my londinium.com site. I looked a options and found typesense which is an opensource solution and looks interesting. I installed it...
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Serverless Laravel with Bref using AWS Lambda Part 2
November 28, 2022
So my first idea is to get it working and up and running using my AWS ec2 debian instance which will call a lambda function and spider the website and save the data in the mysql db on the ec2 box....
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