Scott Robinson Technical Lead

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Operations, debugging, integrations, security and the honest version of what AI agents are worth in a large codebase. Fifteen years of it, oldest first at the bottom.

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2020
21/05/2020 laravel Using Additional Configuration Files with Laravel & LumenHow to use your own custom configuration files with Laravel and Lumen. 1m
2019
26/10/2019 git Git reflog can help you restore lost workUsing git reflog is a powerful tool that you should add to your developer toolkit. 2m 01/10/2019 aws How-to set downloaded filename for S3 pre-signed URLs in PHPAWS S3 lets you set custom headers for pre-signed URLs. 2m 11/05/2019 mac How to Zip and Encrypt a file on a MacYou don't need to buy an app to quickly zip and encrypt files on a Mac. 1m 10/04/2019 payments Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)On September 14th 2019, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) laws will come into action within the European Union. 2m 14/03/2019 vagrant PHP 5.6 Vagrant Box for Legacy ProjectsThe maintainer of the popular Laravel Homestead box has a new project that is a paid-for PHP 5.6 Vagrant box which is perfect for legacy apps. 1m 13/03/2019 lifestyle Firefox SendMozilla have unveiled a really useful and secure way to send one off files to friends, family and colleagues. 1m 12/03/2019 nginx Nginx acquired by F5 NetworksThe de-facto default modern web server has been acquired and hopefully that doesn’t mean too many changes. 1m 15/02/2019 laravel Automatically Start Laravel Horizon with VesselIf you're using the excellent Vessel by Chris Fidao and want Horizon to start automatically, tuck into this post. 1m 06/02/2019 ssl Laravel Forge - LetsEncrypt Certificates Failing to RenewLetsEncrypt have updated their challenges and renewals using the TLS-SNI-01 challenge will fail. You'll need to upgrade certbot/LetsEncrypt to use HTTP-01 challenges instead and manually reissue your certificates. 1m 06/02/2019 laravel Laravel Nova - Trimmed Field PatternIn a Laravel Nova based project I had a list of domains that sometimes grew to take up most of the row it was in. I discovered the following pattern to show a limited field on the index view and a full field on the edit view. 1m 06/02/2019 binutils Exa - A replacement for 'ls'There aren't many times I'd recommend to replace built in system tools, but exa is a marked step up from `ls`. 1m 09/01/2019 domain Thoughts about Domain RegistrationOver the Christmas period, I’d read a few threads online about whether developers should register domains on behalf of clients. A domain name is the core piece in every company’s online presence. I’ve always had a firm, emphatic answer to this question which is no. Always get clients to hold their own domain registration. 2m 01/01/2019 goal Goals for 2019At the start of every year, I write myself a set of aims that I'd like to complete in the next year - all realistic and do-able. 1m
2018
30/12/2018 14 Books for 2019I've set myself a reading target of 14 books completed in 2019. 2m 27/12/2018 csv Customising Exports for the 'Laravel Nova Excel' Package 2m 11/09/2018 giphy Easy Screen Capture on macOS with Giphy Capture 1m 08/09/2018 mastodon Thoughts about MastodonI’ve seen quite a few people posting to Twitter recently that they’ve tried or are actively trying out Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. 5m 26/08/2018 aws Freeze - A Mac Client for Amazon Glacier 1m 21/07/2018 cloud-functions Pushing Ottomatik Webhooks to Slack via Apache IBM Cloud Functions OpenWhisk 2m 14/05/2018 apt Ubuntu Zesty Fails to 'apt-get update' 1m 19/04/2018 bash Clear Bash History 1m 15/04/2018 immutable Deleting Immutable Files on Linux 1m 14/04/2018 git Easier Git Aliases 1m 01/04/2018 android Install older Android SDK Version 1m 25/03/2018 apple How to De-Register iMessage 1m 07/03/2018 digital-ocean List All Your Digital Ocean Servers IPv4 addresses 1m 07/03/2018 aws AWS S3 Recursively List Bucket Sizes 1m 13/02/2018 geolocation Simple IP Reverse & Info 1m 11/02/2018 apache Apache Set Server Tokens Off 1m 10/02/2018 apache Apache Set Expires Header for Images/CSS 1m 09/02/2018 apache Apache Redirect for Canonical Domain 1m 07/02/2018 spf SPF Record for No Mail Sending Domain 1m 05/02/2018 namecheap Namecheap SSL Certificate Combining 1m
2017
10/09/2017 github Laravel Validation Rules 1m 09/09/2017 telegram Quick Way to Set Telegram Webhook 1m 04/09/2017 docker Docker Based Torrent Client 1m 26/08/2017 opensource Writing a Better README.md 1m 24/08/2017 magento Magento Redirection after Store URL Changed 1m 22/08/2017 mobile Tip: Telephone Preference Service 1m 17/08/2017 mac Restore Telnet in Mac OS High Sierra 10.13 2m 22/06/2017 mac MacOS: Add Message to Lock Screen 1m 17/05/2017 dusk Testing Laravel Applications with CircleCI & Dusk 2m 17/05/2017 dns Use 'net-alias' in Docker for Easy Round Robin Load Balancing 1m 19/04/2017 mastodon Tool to Create Mastodon OAuth2 Applications in Your Browser 1m 16/04/2017 diff Github & Hide Files from Commit Diffs 1m 15/04/2017 android Appcelerator Titanium Starting an Intent/Activity Not Firing 1m 15/04/2017 Continuous Integration Testing an Appcelerator Titanium Mobile Application 3m 28/03/2017 magento Magento 2 Interceptors 1m 27/03/2017 cli Zapier's CLI Tool for Creating Zaps 1m