So a disclaimer. As a software engineer, I'm not a security expert. I rely heavily on those who know better, especially OWASP. So all feedback is welcome to help fix any flaws in the article or improve it. Sequelize is a very robust database ORM for...
Disclaimer. This is an investigation into what is possible. Not a fully-blown solution into how to reload modules without restarting the whole server. In a previous article, I was investigating how to use require.cache to refresh a module by deletin...
This is purely in reference to CommonJS modules. TLDR Before I bore you with why I did this, refreshing a module can be done by deleting its reference in the require.cache object. Like so: require('./some-module') // use module delete require.cach...
“Premature optimisation is the root of all evil”. But sometimes you know upfront that you can create a clean module, separate from the rest of the Laravel app. And I like Kelly Sutton’s mantra – optimize for deletability. Why? “By working with code,...
So the consensus is that JSON in a relational database is bad. Now, while I’m not a database expert by no stretch of the imagination, I will just say that there’s nothing wrong about it if used in the right way. So my problem: modelling visa checklis...
I love Laravel. I love Nuxt probably just as much. And Vue.js ❤️. And client-side apps in general. And Serverless. And Containers. And Kubernetes! And the list goes on. ...so why go back to basics? Really, do I need all of that, for calculators? Some...
After a few years at a start-up turned scale-up, learning a few hard lessons along the way, I decided to share some principles I think are universal. I’m sure there'll be exceptions, like start-ups with near-unlimited runways funded by a generous ben...
Website: https://uposcar.com/tools/pnl-fifo-calculator Why I Built It So there I was, escaping the rain to move to sunny Spain. Until I started preparing to move, I never had to worry about selling my shares and stocks because we have ISA accounts in...
I've used MySQL for years. But recently, I found myself working with PostgreSQL and simple things like dumping and restoring a database are different enough that I decided to document the process. It's straightforward enough once I knew how. So first...
