Serverless Laravel with Bref using AWS Lambda Part 1

November 27, 2022

Having worked on improving my suite of spiders, I wanted to expand the coverage to all the websites in the UK area of Openstreetmap and also incorporate more websites for a search engine I have in...

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Adding A Twitter Card Meta Tag Image

November 25, 2022

Today I have added a Twitter Card image for when I link to a post from Twitter. I had to write a blog post for the Jigsaw Static Site generator to include the image in the build. Here it is:

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Looking Up Domains for DNS Entries with PHP and Dig

November 23, 2022

One improvement I made today to speed up spidering website domains, is looking up the domain for a DNS-A entry. Using Curl or Guzzle is slowed down when the website has no entry in the DNS. So i...

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Using Screen and Links2 to run a PHP Web Spider and Detach the Terminal

November 22, 2022

I run a PHP based web spider to check the status of websites in londinium.com and was looking for a way to run it in the terminal. In the past I have run it using the refresh html header in a normal...

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Fixing Web Spider Errors with Guzzle Cookie Header Redirects and User Agent

November 21, 2022

Over the weekend, i ran a spider on the websites listed in the openstreetmap system. These are the error codes and the counts for these errors HTTP Error Count 401 13 402 6...

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Azure Free Tier Debian 11 and Ansible Installing a Lamp server

November 9, 2022

Today I got an email from Microsoft azure that a 30 day trial was ending and that I now had a 12 month fee basic tier level service, which is nice. I have set up a debian box to play with, just like...

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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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