CyclopsMonitor

Two Laravel packages I use often are packages to impersonate a user and packages to log activity (including model changes). Both are useful, but there’s typically one piece missing. Activity log packages will log *who* initiated a change, but not who the person may have been impersonated by. If I log in as me, then…

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 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…

I’m starting to read “Four Thousand Weeks” from Oliver Burkeman. I initially listened to much of the audio book, then bought a copy (link above to Amazon – no affiliate link). Have not finished yet, but the core message of the book seems to be There’s certainly more to it than this, and again, I’m…

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…

I stumbled on an article from Matt Galligan about the initial versions of Cir.ca, a news aggregator app from a few years ago that recently closed up. So the article talked about many of the design ideas they had, and the struggles they worked through before changing or abandoning some ideas.  This is an example…