John Beales (@jbeales)

Fri, Nov 6

Who else is working on a WordPress site this fine morning?

I got a few personal clients still on WordPress and an agency client's clients that are still WordPress sites. I am slowly moving away from WordPress and it is proving to be the right decision I have made for one of my clients, which is a local gym to me. I am also looking into…

Sat, Oct 31

John Beales @jbealesOct 31dfec2cd

It looks like it's time to say goodbye to the Focus app, (https://heyfocus.com). It seems abandoned. The app no longer displays a UI when I click on it, so I can't control focus sessions, and it pops up errors when the automation I had set up is supposed to run. The website…

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Wed, Oct 28

John Beales @jbealesOct 285002ca6

“Irregular Activity Detected for Your AWS Access Key” Crap.

Fri, Oct 23

John Beales @jbealesOct 23716c084

Looking at some mid 19th-century newspapers today, it's amazing what people used to sell.

WilliamShakesGibson @WilliamShakesGibsonOct 23

Excellent fonts and layouts, and what was being sold for decades thereafter was neat to say the least.

Marcel Wendler @UniquePandaOct 23

Don't know what I'd do with 150 long sticks, but I appreciate the hustle of collecting them! Also sounds like a task from math textbook.

J:\RECYCLE.BIN @jrecyclebinquotedOct 23

would love to see some of this smudginess in the fonts of aging blogtext.

Thu, Oct 22

John Beales @jbealesOct 223a4dc55

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!

Davit @dkhurshudianOct 22

@tom who invented CAPSLOCK?

Sean Boult @HacksorequotedOct 22

WHY_ARE_YOU_SCREAMING

Wed, Oct 21

John Beales @jbealesOct 212a6caeb

Updated PHP on the server I'm responsible for, and checked the others I use, between classes at University.

John Beales @jbealesOct 21d32923c

Me too!

JLJorge Hernandez Lalcebo@lalceboOct 21

All my servers have been patched 😎

Mon, Oct 19

John Beales @jbealesOct 1983581cb

They're out of control! I have 88 dot files and dot folders in my home directory.

YKYuta Katayama@yutkatOct 19

dotfiles are the best.

Sun, Oct 18

John Beales @jbealesOct 1832cbdd2

Does WordPress count as a web framework?

Nnunomaduro@nunomaduroOct 18

your first web framework?

phpete @phpete1Oct 18

I’d say so

John Beales @jbealesOct 186c8e593

In addition to being a dev, I’m a part-time student. So the next while is going to be dedicated to seeing what PiP is up to.

Sat, Oct 17

John Beales @jbealesOct 1791699bf

Someone posted a commit about cycling, but I can’t find it now. But here’s my contribution to /dev/null cycling club: the sunny fall ride.

Lovro Papež @cannonshOct 17

Was me. Welcome to the club.

Fri, Oct 16

John Beales @jbealesOct 16b556234

When you have to load rarely-changing data into your database, how do you do it?

In the migrations45%, 5 votes
As a separate Artisan command27%, 3 votes
Some other way (tell me!)27%, 3 votes

11 votesFinal results

Joseph Miclaus @josephmiclausOct 16

Prompting?

Adam Hosker @ahoskerOct 16

Seeding? https://laravel.com/framework/docs/12.x/seeding

LaravelDatabase: Seeding | Laravel 12.x - The clean stack for Artisans and agentsLaravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.

fejx @fejxOct 16

Database seeders reading CSV files! (You can also include them in the repo if they're needed for testing.)

John Beales @jbealesOct 16203224a

I'm prepping a deploy that has migrations that take 7 minutes on my localhost. I hope I can still deploy with Laravel Envoyer, it's going to be close! I might need to move some of the data from migrations to artisan commands, but it's data that I don't expect to update often, so…

fejx @fejxOct 16

I don't get it. Once your migration ran, it's done. Why does it matter if the data is updated often after migrating? Regardless, I've done migrations in artisan commands if 1. they were backwards compatible and/or 2. they took more than a few seconds.

John Beales @jbealesOct 166353e32

Handed off work from a Claude chat to Claude code. It was pretty clunky involving a ZIP file of handoff data. I wish that I could just tell Claude Code "Continue conversation <UUID> here" or something like that.