“Your present identity should not constrain your future habits”.
For this quote from the audio book “Hello, Habits“. Obviously the book is about ‘habits’, but the phrase could easily have been “Your present identity should not constrain your future self”.
In either reading of this, it’s been stuck in my head for while now.
How does this phrase land with you?
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…
I’ve been using github copilot on and off in 2023 (more on than off the last few months), but just recently learned about https://codeium.com. Couple of points in their favor: 1. They exclude non-permissive licensed code from their training models (no gpl, etc)2. There’s a “chat” interface to ask for explanations of code. I’m not…
Curious about checking out the quality of your PHP project, but don’t know where to start? https://github.com/jakzal/phpqa is a project providing docker images of various tools to help measure aspects of your PHP code. will run the phploc tool on your current folder But… you can alias the tool, then simply run $ phpqa <toolname>…
Small note, mostly for myself, as a reminder that when doing large imports of data, you may not need each block to be processed as an Eloquent model. That code above would generally be faster as Obviously there are even faster ways – preparing your data in some text format, and using your DB cli…
Well… here we are. 10 years later, and … no backups. Or… none of the data that’s important. Recently had a drive crash in my main server where this blog is hosted. Had it happen 2 years ago, but the data was recovered, and I put everything on automatic backups. Using virtualmin, a great control…
Have been needing to programmatically fill out an I9 PDF, retrieved from gov site. Should be fairly straightforward, right? Well… the field names are… a mess. Field names like topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].U\.S\._Social_Security_Number__Last_4_numbers_[0]topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].expiration_date__if_applicable__mm_dd_yyyy[0] topmostSubform[0].Page2[0].Employers_Business_or_Organization_Address_Street_Number_and_Name[0] and so on make it pretty… not straightforward to create a usable key/value combination to search and replace. But… today, I noticed it got…