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Tyler Smith

I'm a software developer who writes about Laravel, JavaScript, Rails, Linux, Docker, WordPress and the tech industry. Follow me on Twitter @tylerlwsmith

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BA in Communications Emphasis in Public Relations

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Upsert a row in a DB that doesn't use primary keys or unique constraints

Upsert a row in a DB that doesn't use primary keys or unique constraints

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Stop the cursor from jumping to the corner of the screen on a Lenovo Yoga laptop

Stop the cursor from jumping to the corner of the screen on a Lenovo Yoga laptop

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The winner of WordPress vs WP Engine will be Microsoft

The winner of WordPress vs WP Engine will be Microsoft

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Mock functions in individual tests using Jest

Mock functions in individual tests using Jest

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Get better autocomplete for Faker when using factory_boy

Get better autocomplete for Faker when using factory_boy

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Use SQLite as a Celery broker in Django

Use SQLite as a Celery broker in Django

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Understanding tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery

Understanding tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery

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Automatically reload Celery workers with a custom Django command

Automatically reload Celery workers with a custom Django command

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Emulating Rails-like resource controllers in a server-rendered Django app

Emulating Rails-like resource controllers in a server-rendered Django app

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Using a venv with Neovim's Python LSP

Using a venv with Neovim's Python LSP

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Change Fugitive's number of Git context lines in Neovim

Change Fugitive's number of Git context lines in Neovim

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Move manifest.json to the output directory's parent in Vite 5

Move manifest.json to the output directory's parent in Vite 5

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Using the same Caddyfile for both development and production

Using the same Caddyfile for both development and production

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Prevent Caddy's automatic http-to-https redirect

Prevent Caddy's automatic http-to-https redirect

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Routing multiple paths to a reverse proxy using Caddy

Routing multiple paths to a reverse proxy using Caddy

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Programmatically generate files in Cypress tests

Programmatically generate files in Cypress tests

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How to copy test results from a container to the host using Docker Compose

How to copy test results from a container to the host using Docker Compose

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Set an Active Storage attachment in an after_save callback

Set an Active Storage attachment in an after_save callback

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Resize images before saving them with Ruby on Rails Active Storage

Resize images before saving them with Ruby on Rails Active Storage

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Faking private class constructors in JavaScript

Faking private class constructors in JavaScript

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Add trailing slashes in Rails without breaking everything

Add trailing slashes in Rails without breaking everything

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Using Alpine.js directives on form_with in Ruby on Rails

Using Alpine.js directives on form_with in Ruby on Rails

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Error boundary causes React Router links to stop working

Error boundary causes React Router links to stop working

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Leveraging JavaScript to implement CSS transitions that use display: none

Leveraging JavaScript to implement CSS transitions that use display: none

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Using Google Analytics's gtag.js with Turbolinks

Using Google Analytics's gtag.js with Turbolinks

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Using Alpine's Persist plugin in a separate JavaScript file

Using Alpine's Persist plugin in a separate JavaScript file

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Binding an Alpine.js element to the turbolinks:load event

Binding an Alpine.js element to the turbolinks:load event

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Scoping variables to a single file in Scss without @use

Scoping variables to a single file in Scss without @use

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Download a webpage and all of its assets using wget

Download a webpage and all of its assets using wget

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Development-only pages in Next.js

Development-only pages in Next.js

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Development-only routes in Django

Development-only routes in Django

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Styling django-allauth by overriding its templates

Styling django-allauth by overriding its templates

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Creating a text column using Ecto in Elixir's Phoenix framework

Creating a text column using Ecto in Elixir's Phoenix framework

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Self-hosting analytics with Plausible & NGINX on Ubuntu Server

Self-hosting analytics with Plausible & NGINX on Ubuntu Server

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A complete guide to deploying Rails on an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM

A complete guide to deploying Rails on an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM

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Verifying GPG signatures: history, terms and a how-to guide

Verifying GPG signatures: history, terms and a how-to guide

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Include a phone frame in a screenshot of an Android Expo project

Include a phone frame in a screenshot of an Android Expo project

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Build an "Edit Page" button in a Hugo template

Build an "Edit Page" button in a Hugo template

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Get the absolute path to the project directory in Hugo

Get the absolute path to the project directory in Hugo

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How to check if a Hugo site is in development or production

How to check if a Hugo site is in development or production

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Prevent NPM from installing packages outside of a Docker container

Prevent NPM from installing packages outside of a Docker container

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Do content management systems actually serve their users?

Do content management systems actually serve their users?

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SSH into a server behind Cloudflare using an SSH config file

SSH into a server behind Cloudflare using an SSH config file

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Validating an upload as an image OR a video with Laravel

Validating an upload as an image OR a video with Laravel

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Speed up Laravel in Docker by moving vendor directory

Speed up Laravel in Docker by moving vendor directory

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Handling url-encoded forwarded slashes in Laravel URLs

Handling url-encoded forwarded slashes in Laravel URLs

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One does not "just containerize" an app

One does not "just containerize" an app

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Read selected text out-loud on Ubuntu Linux

Read selected text out-loud on Ubuntu Linux

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Installing Laravel on a Raspberry Pi with Sail

Installing Laravel on a Raspberry Pi with Sail

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Getting Pop_OS! Installed on an HP ProBook x360 11

Getting Pop_OS! Installed on an HP ProBook x360 11

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Change Laravel's exception screen code editor

Change Laravel's exception screen code editor

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DEV 2020 Year-in-Review: Scraping data using the Console

DEV 2020 Year-in-Review: Scraping data using the Console

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Unpacking the murky distinctions between websites and web applications.

Unpacking the murky distinctions between websites and web applications.

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"But does it scale?" A pragmatic overview of infrastructure scalability

"But does it scale?" A pragmatic overview of infrastructure scalability

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Is PHP a gnarly language? Yes, yes it is.

Is PHP a gnarly language? Yes, yes it is.

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Why is WordPress development painful?

Why is WordPress development painful?

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Laravel not running accessors with numbers in attribute name when serializing to JSON

Laravel not running accessors with numbers in attribute name when serializing to JSON

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Can you be a good software engineer if you just do it for the money?

Can you be a good software engineer if you just do it for the money?

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Using a TypeScript interface to define model properties in Objection.js

Using a TypeScript interface to define model properties in Objection.js

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Hating jQuery doesn't make you cool

Hating jQuery doesn't make you cool

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