Trialing Codeium code assistant

Recently, I hit a weird ‘bug’. The $file was not being created, so I’d added a quick ‘assert’ in the code, and… file_exists($file) was indeed false (checked when stepping through debugger), but assert was not stopping/failing. But… running a simple assert from command line was working. This was something different only when running under the…

I’ve been (re)working on a tool I’d built… way too long ago now. AppliedTo was a tool I’d built to help manage and track outreach efforts for freelance/contract work, but it probably would find more use for folks tracking full-time job applications. Revisiting some of the earlier decisions, I realize I focused a bit too…

Have been dealing with a couple of PHP projects recently which have been a far bigger pain in the backside than I anticipated, and both had some of the same stumbling blocks. In both cases, and in other projects I’ve seen, there’s a huge assumption that the code will be run from the root of…

Many moons ago my earlier version of my blog had this list I use when spelling things for people over the phone. I managed to find it at archive.org and thought I’d repost… a as in aisle (or aye) b as in bdellium  c as in czar d as in djibouti e as in eight…

Talking with a friend today, I was reminded of an idea I shelved (temporarily) several years ago. The tech recruiting world is going through a bit of a shakeup; tens of thousands of layoffs just a year or two after years of a hiring binge in the industry. Large tech companies have traditionally had the…

I hit a problem the other day with concurrent queries causing deadlocks.  Using innodb gives you a lot of protection with respect to transaction support, but it carries a moderate amount of overhead, and unless you’re aware of what’s going on, you may be paying a higher price which can eventually cause performance or deadlock…