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Fixing Segmentation Fault Error on CircleCI

Try disabling xdebug if you get a segmentation fault error when running php unit tests on CircleCI. Xdebug is installed automatically on some docker images and can cause segfaults during the build process.

1 week ago

Part 3: Joinery for the Upper Section of the Four Corner Posts

Oct 25, 2020

Part 2: Cutting the Timber Frame Joinery for the Floor Joists of the Tiny Timber Frame

Oct 20, 2020

Part 1: Cutting the Timber Frame Joinery for the Floor Sills of the Tiny Timber Frame

Oct 14, 2020

Tiny Timber Frame Intro

Oct 5, 2020

Abstractions and Vacations

Abstraction can be hard to define, but I believe it is a very important skill for developers to hone. I wrote an article detailing my experience with abstraction on the Zaengle blog and here are a few of the high points:

Abstraction is a kind of organization accomplished by delegating responsibilities and information so that each segment isn’t overwhelmed or doing more than its fair share.

Another benefit of abstraction is the freedom it gives to change the internals of a section of code without the fear of breaking larger application logic. If feature A is given input and returns specific output, does it really matter what happens while the logic is inside feature A? That gives me the freedom to design and adjust over time.

Abstraction is a dangerous tool if wielded improperly. A bad abstraction can keep you hopping back and forth in a codebase, scratching your head saying, “Where does this thing happen?

Read the entire article on the Zaengle blog →

Jul 14, 2020

Renaming a Column with a Foreign Key in Laravel

This database originally used "customer_id" as the column name for the owner of each row, however the actual model being referenced was a "User". Here's how I changed the name of the column (which happened to have a foreign key on it) via Laravel migration:

Jul 14, 2020

Deploying a Nuxt Universal App to Vercel

A great explanation of how to deploy a Nuxt SSR app on Vercel with a bonus of showing when to use devDependencies versus dependencies in your package.json file.

Read the article here →

Jun 23, 2020

Timber Frame Cabin... v2!

Work has started on version 2 of the Northwoods Cabin, beginning with milling of trees into beams.

May 21, 2020

For When Things Get Gnarly in Eloquent

Jonathan Reinink has written some excellent content around Eloquent and this article is one that I reference frequently. Jonathan walks us through handling sticky situations when we need to get a single record back from a relationship without causing N+1 issues.

Dynamic Relationships in Laravel using Subqueries →

May 20, 2020