Bluesky Post Time Expander Tampermonkey Script

In the Bluesky (social media platform) web interface, post dates are shown relative to the current date/time. To see the actual post time, you have…

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Comment on Breaking Change – Carbon’s diffIn* functions under v3.x by Sara

Thanks for posting this info. We've noticed another breaking change - both minValue() and maxValue() throw a "not a function" error. Carbon 3 obviously needs a few bug fixes and tweaks to make it backwards compatible! In the meantime, your suggestion to downgrade to Carbon 2 has fixed things for now.

Under Construction (thoughts on open source)

I was out for a walk a few weeks ago and came across the house pictured above, under construction in my neighbourhood. This reminded me…

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WordCamp Canada #1, Done

This past week I was part of the organizing team who hosted almost 300 WordPress enthusiasts to Ottawa for the first national WordCamp Canada, Until…

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Comment on Customizing the New Admin Email Confirmation in WordPress by Jamie Schmid

Thank you Shawn, this is very timely. I make lots of microsites throughout the year for my company with lots of different owners and lots of different uses, this is another level of value I can add to the process. Adding this to my snippets!

Laravel 11 Adds Policy Auto-Discovery to Models

Laravel 11 has added the ability to discovery policy classes automatically!

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Breaking Change – Carbon’s diffIn* functions under v3.x

While upgrading an application to Laravel 11, I ran into a breaking change in Carbon 3.x that I wanted to share.

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Using ChatGPT to Explain RegEx

I have generally been unimpressed with AI as a coding assistant, at least where it’s built into my IDE. (My experimenting as been with GitHub…

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Comment on Customizing the New Admin Email Confirmation in WordPress by Andrew Hoyer

Hey Shawn. Thanks for the blog post. The Admin Email Address is one that I'm particularly interested in right now as I have a WordPress Trac ticket in the queue regarding how to deal with getting removed from that field. A lot of WordPress devs make themselves the admin email address, but later when someone else takes over, they get stuck receiving all of the admin messages, often for years, with no way to change it. Here's the link for anyone who wants to see it and give it a star. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60789

Before Upgrading Laravel, use “Can I Upgrade Laravel Yet?”

Laravel Shift's "Can I Upgrade Laravel Yet?" tool is handy timesaver when preparing to upgrade framework versions.

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Customizing the New Admin Email Confirmation in WordPress

How to use WordPress filters to modify the contents of the email that is sent out when the site's admin email is changed in the WordPress admin dashboard.

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Comment on Feature Preview Branches with Laravel Harbor by Shawn Hooper

In reply to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@hsl/112118617483125313">Harold Leewis</a>. It's so nice to be able to flip something that's WIP to a colleague who doesn't have a local environment.

Comment on Feature Preview Branches with Laravel Harbor by Harold Leewis

<a href="https://shawnhooper.ca/author/shooper/" rel="nofollow ugc">@shooper</a> Oh nice! Not using forge, but I've been doing something similar for years with a custom build/deploy server, doing it on all pushes to all branches instead of only on PR's, so great to be able to test everything easily through <branch>.dev.domain.tld :)

Feature Preview Branches with Laravel Harbor

Laravel Harbor allows you to create preview environments on Laravel Forge servers when a new pull request is created in GitHub. This has saved my team so much time already.

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Comment on Git and “Get that file from the other branch” by Shawn Hooper

In reply to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@robinm/112005830575181047">robinm</a>. Thanks for the tip. I'll have to check those commands out. I've definitely been in the habit of using the same basic commands for years (and PHPStorm's GUI for merge conflict resolution).

Comment on Git and “Get that file from the other branch” by robinm

In reply to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@robinm/112005805791192141">robinm</a>. <a href="https://shawnhooper.ca/author/shooper/" rel="nofollow ugc">@shooper</a> And more generally I've totally stopped to use `git checkout` two years ago when I discovered `git restore` and `git switch`. Those commands make so much more sense!

Comment on Git and “Get that file from the other branch” by robinm

<a href="https://shawnhooper.ca/author/shooper/" rel="nofollow ugc">@shooper</a> What you want is `git restore -s feature-5 your-file`.`-s` is short for `--source`. And if `your-file` doesn't exist in your current working directory use `git restore -s feature-5 -- your-file`.

Git and “Get that file from the other branch”

I’ve been using git for about a decade now, and I learned something so simple that I feel like the person in the image above.…

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Comment on Ignoring Files in Git. More than just .gitignore by Shawn Hooper

In reply to <a href="https://shawnhooper.ca/2023/12/12/ignoring-files-in-git-more-than-just-gitignore/#comment-15065">Hiroki Matsuuchi</a>. Agreed! It was being able to globally exclude all the files for my IDE that made that feature worth it.

Comment on Ignoring Files in Git. More than just .gitignore by Hiroki Matsuuchi

Short, to the point and very useful. Thank you! This was my first time hearing about global .gitignore. I work fairly consistently with only a few frameworks/libraries, so setting this up to hide environment variables seems like a great way to prevent myself from making stupid mistakes in the future. Thanks for the tip!