Recovering data from a failed 3TB seagate ST3000DM001
My Seagate ST3000DM001 failed me, it was no longer detected by the BIOS, when the PC starts, you can feel the disk spinning, and the head moving in the usual way, but after spending a minute waiting...
View ArticleWordPress does not load correctly (SOLVED) behind nginx/varnish reverse...
Here is my problem, I have a website, and in a directory in that website, I have a wordpress installation, and that installation opens correctly, loads all the images, css, js and any other files for...
View ArticleMoving away from Laravel smoothly (Pros and cons)
A short while back, I was handed a repository with code written in Laravel, incomplete, and somewhat sketchy. with the purpose of taking a look at the code and deciding whether i would take it or not....
View ArticleLaravel – Tools and environments
The following are things that are commonly used with Laravel. broken down by category Environment tools and solutions PHP composer (Mandatory)Docker – Sail (Optional) Relevant / Compatible server side...
View ArticleDebian 11 on laptop with nVidia optimus
This is a short one, just a quick referance to have your system optimized for both efficiency and performance This laptop which has had a fresh Debian Bullseye installed has both an nVidia card...
View ArticleVideo Editing for Debian 11
On linux, when i needed to edit a video I usually go to Kdenlive, I used to think it is THE linux alternative to Adobe Premier Pro, until yesterday, when a friend recommended I try out OpenShot I am a...
View ArticleLaravel 9 on NGINX under Debian 11 (Bullseye) – Step by step
This part of the tutorial is a hands on setup to have Laravel working on nginx under Linux. this is not the only way to run Laravel, for all the options, see here NOTE: Most if not all of the popular...
View ArticleLaravel development under Linux (Dev Tools)
At this stage, this posst is a stub, I am simply compiling information here then I will come back to edit this Under linux, the Laravel extensions that i like up to now are Laravel Blade Snippets (For...
View ArticleGnome terminal tab title
To tell tabs apart fast, you can give every terminal tab a name, just execute the following line inside that terminal window echo -ne "\033]0;SOME TITLE HERE\007" I am doing this on the default gnome...
View Articleredis for Laravel on Debian
If you are like me, running only your own projects on a server, you might want to skip authentication the changes I generally make to the file /etc/redis/redis.conf are 1- At the very beginning, limit...
View ArticleWhat is YARN
yarn to JavaScript, is what composer is to PHP, a dependency manager, meant to replace npm, but still works with npm package.json is the file that dictated the dependencies for npm
View ArticleLinux find and replace string in multiple files
On windows, you might have been using text editors that search or search&replace within files in a folder, one such tool i have used in windows is “source edit” by Joacim Andersson (Brixoft...
View ArticleDocker Cheat Sheet
Like the name implies, this is a cheat sheet to quickly find the command you need, they are ordered by the frequency a command is used, or at least what i think is going to be needed more frequently,...
View ArticleFixing my android SD card (exFat) on linux
This is probably very easy to use on windows, but i could not find a windows machine, A quick solution that was not very clear at first was as follows, before you do this, make sure you have unmounted...
View ArticleMicrosoft VS code plugins for the Laravel Developer
The following is a list of plugins I have installed to help with Laravel Development, I will add to them as I go, I will also remove the ones i don’t think were worth it from the list as well...
View ArticleOpenwrt internet via USB from Huawei E5577 or similar devices
If you have a 3G/4G USB dongle, which is not battery operated, just a USB stick, you might want to check out the instructions here The device I am using at the minute is the ZTE MF920U, I have also...
View ArticleAudio Video Libraries at home DLNA etc
This is basically a comparison of free sofwtare that you can install on your NAS or headless linux machine, I am using Debian Bullseye, but that is besides the point To run webm files (VP9) through...
View ArticleInstalling MacOS in a virtual machine (KVM) under linux
This is a simple task, and it is only simple because of foxlet (@FoxletFox on twitter) Anyway, let us get to setting it up, to begin with, you don’t need to download MacOS, when using foxlet’s...
View ArticlewebP is the new PNG
Superior in both Lossless compression, and Lossy compression, webp is the new image format by google Already supported by all web browsers *(that i have tested it with), webP is indeed a promising...
View ArticleMaking a video smaller
A couple of hours ago, i received a video that is 50 frames per second, and compressed in H264, the video was 58MB, and she wanted it less than 15 to send it via email, the video was 1:45 long, so i...
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