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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Typesense Part 3 adding an id field for each record and more

January 14, 2023

I saw an update to version 0.24 of typesense and I have built a new database of around 300,000 websites so it was time to install it on a live server! check the status: and do a healthcheck...

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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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