Can you social engineer a chatbot into an SQL injection? The answer is: It depends. Sometimes, yes.

Recently a spam wave utilising the vendors search of Shopify made the rounds on Linkedin.

Using open source software and a free API to automatically transcribe WhatsApp voice messages.

Many video call tools, like Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, Whereby, Around […] offer automatic gain control. But only some of those tools will let you disable it.

Sometimes it’s just one of those days. And sometimes you spend way too much time debugging something that turns out to be a trivial issue.

Using indexes/indices (both are correct!) are one of the most obvious ways to speed up database operations in any app using MySQL and similar databases.

Sometimes you want to link to a resource inside a paginated collection by its ID and need to find the correct page, fast.

Laravel’s BelongsToMany relationship has a relatively unknown allRelatedIds method that might just shave off a MySQL join.

Two options for creating a textarea field that grows and shrinks with user input. Easily definable minimum and maximum height. Example code for Javascript and Vue.js.

Some more short and useful SCSS helpers to make development easier and cleaner.

As CSS border-radius will only work in the place the border is supposed to appear - between margin and padding - we need to come up with a more creative solution if we want a round edge where the content is.

Expanding on the previous post about automatic high contrast text colors, let’s take a look about how this could practically be implemented in a Shopify theme.

With CSS getting more and more features, SCSS has less use cases. Yet there are still a lot of areas where SCSS makes development easier.

You should always respect the choices your users make. There are a few media queries you can use to easily make your site or app experience more in line with what your users want.

When it comes to styling text content, readability trumps everything else. But not all colors are made equal.

For a legacy project that required me to deploy different branches to different endpoints, I utilized a quick git hook.

Having a few shortcuts to quickly pull up your different workspaces really makes a difference.

Using ii, jj and kk instead of i, j and k for iterator variables is preferable.

Sometimes you just need to try again. And again, and again…

git branches are a lovely thing to keep your work tidy and easily collaborate with other developers. But if you want to avoid those pesky upstream error messages when trying to push a freshly created branch, there are two things you can do.

Automatic deploy of Laravel projects to fortrabbit, including built assets and database migrations, using Gitlab CI.

Remember back in the late 90’s, early 00’s? Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, no personal website was complete without the scrolling text provided by the <marquee> tag. Now that it is officially deprecated, let’s look at implementing an alternative.

Not doing clickbait: Single quotes delay command substition, double quotes do it immediately.

A library for assigning human-readable names to colors, and an accompanying Visual Studio Code extension.