Programming

Programming notes across languages and tools: patterns, snippets and lessons that outlived the project they came from.

105 posts on Programming.

2026-10

2026-10-22 Snapkin now uploads your photos before you tap Analyse
2026-10-17 Snapkin has an engineering blog now
2026-10-15 From laravel-echo-server to laravel-websockets to Laravel Reverb

2026-09

2026-09-30 The 7 reasons Apple rejected my app, and what I changed
2026-09-29 Data is the application

2026-06

2026-06-03 Lessons learned: don't mix $timeout attributes and properties on queued Laravel jobs
2026-06-01 More time to think

2026-04

2026-04-28 Finding Dutch audio across streaming services
2026-04-27 Imposter: a single-phone party game, free and open source

2026-03

2026-03-06 How we implemented a mobile-friendly Oh Dear UI with AI

2026-02

2026-02-15 Making our docs AI-friendly: a tale of two caches

2026-01

2026-01-26 Our 3-part series on SQL performance optimisations
2026-01-26 Catching SQL performance issues in PHPUnit and Pest, as part of your test infrastructure
2026-01-09 Using AI is no longer optional
2026-01-03 Web development is fun again

2025-10

2025-10-06 SQL performance: analysing & fixing the slow queries (part 2)

2025-09

2025-09-17 SQL performance: finding the queries to fix (part 1)

2025-06

2025-06-18 Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases

2022-07

2022-07-16 Making sure routes and config files are cached in a Laravel app

2021-02

2021-02-01 Making our Laravel test suite ready for parallel testing

2020-12

2020-12-03 How we added favicons to our site list

2020-11

2020-11-23 wabt-sys compile: error: CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION was not declared in this scope on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
2020-11-23 Could not find directory of OpenSSL installation
2020-11-23 cargo: no such subcommand: +nightly

2020-06

2020-06-29 Git commit without the pre-commit hook
2020-06-11 Want to improve? Add a delay
2020-06-01 A PHP package to simplify working with percentages

2020-05

2020-05-10 Dissecting the code responsible for the Bitcoin halving
2020-05-05 Creating a 2-of-3 multisig with raw transactions on EOSIO
2020-05-03 Selecting all checkboxes on a page with the Developer Console

2020-04

2020-04-16 Composer require specific version while ignoring package dependencies

2020-03

2020-03-09 Forcing a Content-Type header with Guzzle's form_params

2020-02

2020-02-26 Adding a sticky table of contents in Hugo to posts

2019-12

2019-12-20 Making a JSON prettifier in pure JavaScript

2019-11

2019-11-09 How to use ffmpeg to combine multiple videos to one

2019-10

2019-10-03 A github CI workflow tailored to modern PHP applications (Laravel, Symfony, …)

2018-12

2018-12-04 Benchmarking websocket server performance with Artillery

2018-11

2018-11-22 Tracking SQL queries

2018-09

2018-09-13 HHVM is Ending PHP Support

2017-08

2017-08-29 Release Notes Driven Development (RNDD)

2017-07

2017-07-13 Unix time 1.500.000.000

2017-03

2017-03-03 Log all queries in a Laravel CLI command

2017-02

2017-02-06 cron.weekly issue #66: Git Filesystem, Security, JVM, Fission, Habitat, TLS 1.3
2017-02-04 Microsoft announces GVFS: Git Virtual File System

2016-07

2016-07-06 The Bash For Loop, The First Step in Automation on Linux

2016-06

2016-06-23 Podcast: curl, libcurl and the future of the web

2016-05

2016-05-05 Apple prepares iOS to move to IPv6-only networks

2016-04

2016-04-19 Staying up-to-date on open source announcements & security issues via Twitter

2016-03

2016-03-30 Ruby gem search: show all remote versions
2016-03-28 certdiff
2016-03-15 Remote Code Execution in all git versions (client + server) < 2.7.4: CVE-2016-2324, CVE-2016‑2315

2016-01

2016-01-12 Get the file or directory owner in Bash for use in scripts on Linux

2015-12

2015-12-29 Very simple ‘git push’ workflow to deploy code on your own server

2015-10

2015-10-26 Varnish VCL Syntax Highlighting in Sublime Text

2015-08

2015-08-25 Pretty git log in one line
2015-08-23 Install Go 1.5 On CentOS 6 and 7

2015-07

2015-07-13 Apple Favours IPv6, Gives IPv4 a 25ms Penalty
2015-07-05 Rewriting software from scratch, a lesson learned from Mac OSX 10.10.4’s discoveryd

2015-05

2015-05-11 Who Came First: The Source Code Or The Compiler?

2015-04

2015-04-21 Using JavaScript To Read L3 CPU Cache
2015-04-14 Nginx Getting JavaScript Scripting Engine
2015-04-06 HHVM’s Threading Difference – Not The Same as PHP-FPM

2015-03

2015-03-31 Obsessive Efficiency Disorder

2015-02

2015-02-17 Async MySQL Calls in HHVM 3.6
2015-02-05 Check if Value is Present in Array in Puppet
2015-02-02 Deep Insights: The Kernel Boot Process

2015-01

2015-01-25 The PHP Paradox
2015-01-18 PHP 6: The Missing Version Number
2015-01-16 PHP7 To Remove Deprecated Functionality
2015-01-05 Making Standard Resources Overwritable In Your Own Puppet Modules

2014-12

2014-12-29 Compiling from source faster: multi-threading in `make`
2014-12-29 The Infinite File Downloader
2014-12-07 A plea for backwards compatibility breaks in PHP7
2014-12-07 Asynchronous PHP

2014-11

2014-11-23 CPU Flame Graphs
2014-11-17 REST API best practices and versioning

2013-04

2013-04-15 CentOS / RHEL: configure: error: C++ compiler g++ does not work or no compiler found
2013-04-11 RVM: Installing Ruby 1.8.7 on Mac OSX 10.8

2012-03

2012-03-30 Bad ORM is infinitely worse than bad SQL

2012-01

2012-01-21 Linux application/script debugging with 'strace'

2011-07

2011-07-31 Latest tool: QuickDiff – visually showing the differences between text

2011-03

2011-03-13 Firefox extension: the 'Shortlink Revealer' (bit.ly exposer – Proof of Concept)
2011-03-11 Getting started with Git: linkpost
2011-03-04 CentOS, Git & http-push unavailable (git not compiled with USE_CURL_MULTI)

2010-11

2010-11-23 Introducing the ‘Decoder, Encoder & Obfuscator’
2010-11-11 Introducing the Extended Mail Header Parser

2010-08

2010-08-26 Compiling, Running and Cursing on Chromium OS – Getting It To Work
2010-08-19 Chromium OS: error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 502

2010-02

2010-02-17 Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

2009-03

2009-03-22 On The Subject Of Naming Variables

2009-02

2009-02-27 PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again!

2009-01

2009-01-26 PEAR:: Classes Worthy Of Attention
2009-01-23 Method Chaining In PHP – Fluent Interface

2008-11

2008-11-13 Code Quality & Code Requirements

2008-10

2008-09

2008-09-27 Comics Related To IT/Programming
2008-09-25 When A RegEx Goes Bad – For Cisco
2008-09-24 Little Coding Habits
2008-09-10 Projects Page (Finally) Updated

2008-08

2008-08-19 Why Programming Is Less Rewarding Than Designing

2008-07

2008-07-26 Generic Syntax Highlighting For PHP

2008-06

2008-06-21 Some must-have cheat papers for designers & programmers
2008-06-15 Learn from the best at Google Code University
2008-06-09 Female sourcecode better than male?