“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 scoured many of the top results for “Laravel performance” in google, bing, duck duck go, etc… and am flummoxed that one of the key things to help boost Laravel performance is almost never mentioned. Specifically, I’m talking about the toBase() method in the query builder. The toBase() method will instruct the query builder to…
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…
There are a number of UI toolkits in the JS (and specifically VueJS) space. BootstrapVue, Vuetify, VueStrap, Ionic, Quasar, ElementUI and more. I wrote a post some time ago (which may get recovered at some point!) about some of these, and indicated I’d be diving in to one or more at some point, and… I…
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…
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…