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Monthly Archives: May 2026
Moodle Plugin Development: version.php, install.xml, upgrade.php, and tasks.php Explained
Moodle is one of the largest Learning Management System (LMS) platforms in the world, and one of its quietly excellent superpowers is its plugin architecture. Every feature you can add — a new activity, a block, a report, an authentication … Continue reading
Block Countries by IP on Debian Trixie with nftables and xtables-addons
Debian Trixie uses nftables as its default firewall. If you’re used to iptables, the commands still work — but they go through an iptables-nft compatibility shim that translates them to nftables rules under the hood. For country-based IP blocking, the … Continue reading
How to Set Up Google Analytics 4 (GA4) — Step-by-Step Guide
If you’ve been putting off setting up Google Analytics because you’re still on the old “Universal Analytics” (UA) — it’s time to act. UA is officially dead: Standard UA properties stopped collecting data on July 1, 2023 UA 360 (premium) … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics
Tagged ga4, google analytics
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Using PHP with Mustache: Practical Examples and Gotchas
If you want clean templates in PHP without pulling in a full framework, Mustache is a great fit. It keeps logic out of views, which forces you to prepare data in PHP first and makes templates easier to scan later. … Continue reading
Scribe for Laravel: API Docs That Stay Fresh, and a Calm Way to Upgrade Them
Most Laravel teams reach a point where their API documentation is either out of date, written somewhere it shouldn’t be (Confluence, anyone?), or just doesn’t exist. Scribe is the package that quietly fixes this — it reads your routes, controllers, … Continue reading
Three Years of the AI Boom: The Stocks That Ran
A short personal note on the 2023-2026 AI boom and the handful of companies whose stocks went vertical: NVIDIA, Palantir, Broadcom, TSMC, AMD, Microsoft, Meta. Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Investing, Stocks
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Reading Laravel Config From a Queued Job — and the env() Trap That Bites You in Production
Today’s lesson came from a perfectly innocent-looking change in a Laravel app. We had a magic number — a chunk size — sprinkled across three call sites: 123foreach (array_chunk($userIds, 100) as $chunk) { SendOnboardingEmailJob::dispatch($chunk); } One reviewer flagged … Continue reading
When the third-party PPA goes down: replacing a Dockerfile with a pre-built image on Docker Hub
Three days, three CI failures, all rooted in the same place: the Dockerfile our build runs from rebuilds the world from scratch every single CI run, and every external source it touches is somebody else’s reliability problem. Here’s what that … Continue reading
Posted in DevOps
Tagged ci-cd, docker, docker-hub, dockerfile, gitlab
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When a Composer package vanishes from GitHub: don’t panic, and don’t delete vendor/
Today our CI/CD pipeline went red on a job that hadn’t been touched in months. The .gitlab-ci.yml was untouched. The branch built fine yesterday. composer install exploded. The relevant chunk of the failure log: 12345678Failed to download acme/some-nova-tool from dist: … Continue reading
Local HTTPS in 5 minutes with Caddy 🔒
I used to dread setting up https for local development. Self-signed certs got the browser to scream. Editing nginx.conf for two hostnames felt like building a cathedral. Caddy changed all that for me — it’s a tiny single-binary web server … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Java, Java, tls
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