Ebook Making With Markdown to PDF with Ibis

November 6, 2022

Over the weekend, I was looking into making ebooks out of a directory of markdown files. I use markdown for this blog and also for my to-do list, so i started looking at what was available. I tried...

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Laravel Routes from Database

November 3, 2022

I have grown my website to have over 8000 lines in the routes files! These are only calling 6 controllers and simple static views, like so: But these make up the majority of them, so now it is...

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PHPStan static analysis

October 28, 2022

Today I took the plunge and installed PHPStan, or rather larastan which is a static analysis tool to check code for errors and missing return types. create a rules file called 'phpstan.neon' So...

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Upgrade Apache To PHP 8.1 with Ansible on Debian

October 12, 2022

My local Debian machine has Apache and PHP working and I have set it up with this Ansible playbook github.com/allotmentandy/ansible-debian-install-desktop Today as part of the upgrade process for my...

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Upgrading Laravel 7 to Laravel 9

October 10, 2022

This weekend, I have decided it is time to upgrade my londinium.com website from Laravel 7 to the latest Laravel 9. As PHP is now in version 8.1 and the latest version of Laravel needs a minimum of...

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Adding Lat Long Map links For Photos To Londinium

October 5, 2022

There was an Openstreetmap London meetup in The Monkey Puzzle Pub near Paddington Station which got me thinking about adding images of the Pub to that page. Openstreetmap does allow one image as a...

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Adding Blog Post Comments

October 3, 2022

This morning @AshAllenDesign was asking about removing Disqus comments from his website and adding them is something I have been thinking about. But I never really liked the look of Disqus as it...

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August 2022 Allotment Andy Update

September 12, 2022

Has been a funny month, hot and dry but most of the plants seemed to have loved it. Plenty of watering of course but now the harvest of apples, plums, tomatoes, purslane and a lot more in earnest....

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Allotment Andy Update

September 11, 2022

I am back, blogging now. Having spent most of the summer allotment gardening and watching private jets at Farnborough Airport, I feel refreshed and am now back to write more blogs. Planning to...

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Making website screenshot images with spatie browsershot

April 16, 2022

Today I decided to make screenshots of webpages with spatie/browsershot To install I ran: I also ensured that Puppeteer and chromium-browser were installed, on debian I used. The code is...

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