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Personal thoughts on technical learnings and life in Tokyo.
Zero downtime deploys with Docker and php-fpm/nginx
I’m still in the middle of moving an existing web application into Docker! For my personal projects I refuse to use cloud hosts due to the cost. This means I get to have lots of fun figuring out the deployment pipeline that I normally wouldn’t have to worry about with a cloud host with managed container orchestration.
Laravel/PHP/nginx Alpine Dockerfile
I’m currently working on moving an older Laravel/Apache app from bare metal installations into Docker containers, and am taking the opportunity to also see how it fares with nginx.
Laravel’s parallel testing on multiple DB connections
In this blog post, I’m going to tackle the problem of running parallel tests on a Laravel codebase using multiple database connections. This solution addresses a MariaDB/MySQL setup.
Global Game Jam (Tokyo) 2023
I finally got around to signing up to a Global Game Jam, which has been something I’ve always wanted to try out but have been a little shy to do!
ThreeJS Journey
This month I enjoyed marathonning ThreeJS Journey, a 71 hour course by Bruno Simon covering ThreeJS, Blender, and React Three Fiber.
RNGAdopts - first Django app & learnings
As part of my job search, a company requested that I add a Django project to my resume in order to be considered, so my pet project for the month was working on a little app for a friend. The entire project took about 2 weeks ☺️
Scraps: Django notes
Trying to get my head around Django and try figuring out how to write “Django-ish” code. As part of the learning process I’ve been noting down Django concepts as Laravel equivalents.
Setting up self-hosted Expose (ngrok)
Django apparently has no equivalent of Laravel’s `sail share`. Since today’s Christmas, I rabbit holed a little into checking out how `sail share` works and whether I could spin something similar up myself.
Django dev docker compose
In the Laravel ecosystem, there’s a first party development environment called Laravel Sail which takes care of your Docker containers. When I popped my first Django project up, I was looking for Django’s version of Sail, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a first party equivalent.
Laravel test learnings for 2022
I had a large untested side project at the beginning of 2022 which I wanted to start getting under automated tests. My target for this year wasn’t to get it to complete test coverage which I thought may be too ambitious, but just to write 1,000 PHPUnit tests before 2023.
Meilisearch & Laravel Scout (Part 2)
Learnings from migrating a fulltext index into a Meilisearch instance with Laravel Scout.
Laravel’s dispatch_sync() and SerializesModel
Learned something about how `dispatch_sync()` works.
Meilisearch & Laravel Scout (Part 1)
This week’s pet project has been moving an awful fulltext index on a 19 million row table into Meilisearch with Laravel Scout.
Laravel & Pusher: Public private channels
For a recent project, I had to figure out how to support a private broadcasting Pusher channel that does not require user authentication. However, Laravel does not permit non-authenticated users to access private channels.
Scraps: Vue 3 & composition API notes
Vue 3 introduces the concept of the Composition API -- I took some notes while trying to figure out a Vue 2 to Vue 3 migration on a legacy project.