grant horwood

longform content that assumes linux.

Calgary, Alberta Joined on May 15, 2019 https://gbh.fruitbat.io

grant horwood

Sep 30

vim: five tips to become a more mediocre vim user

#vim

7 min read

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grant horwood

Sep 20

mysql: “thai food near me”, or: doing geo distance calculations in your database.

#mysql

13 min read

grant horwood

Sep 6

nginx: putting your site in ‘downtime’ for everyone except you

#ngin #linux #webdev

8 min read

grant horwood

Aug 19

php: concurrency with processes. pt. 2: interprocess communication with shmop

#php

14 min read

grant horwood

Jul 24

php: concurrency with processes. pt. 1: using pcntl_fork for fun and performance

#php #webdev

13 min read

grant horwood

Jul 9

php: write php 8.4’s array_find from scratch

#php

2 min read

grant horwood

Jul 3

amber: writing bash scripts in amber instead. pt. 4: functions

#linux #bash

5 min read

grant horwood

Jun 28

amber: writing bash scripts in amber instead. pt. 3: the standard library

#linux #bash

8 min read

grant horwood

Jun 20

amber: writing bash scripts in amber instead. pt. 2: loops and ifs

#linux #bash

6 min read

grant horwood

Jun 18

amber: writing bash scripts in amber instead. pt. 1: commands and error handling

#bash #linux

7 min read

grant horwood

Jun 11

nginx: doing ip geolocation right in nginx

#nginx #linux #php #webdev

6 min read

grant horwood

Jun 5

php: doing recursion with recursive iterator(iterator)s

#php #webdev

11 min read

grant horwood

May 29

mysql: using json data and not hating it

#mysql #json

7 min read

grant horwood

May 22

bash: splitting tarballs the ‘easy’ way

#linux #bash

3 min read

grant horwood

May 14

nginx: serving private files with X-Accel-Redirect

#nginx #php

4 min read

grant horwood

May 6

mysql: using the slow query log

#mysql

5 min read

grant horwood

Apr 29

managing disk space in bash

#linux #bash

6 min read

grant horwood

Apr 22

uploading to s3 with bash

#bash #curl #aws #s3

5 min read

grant horwood

Jun 20 '23

mysql: three things you (probably) didn't know you could do with the mysql command

#mysql #sql #database

4 min read

grant horwood

Mar 15 '23

writing command line scripts in php: part 5; styling output text

6 min read

grant horwood

Jan 10 '23

php: tame arrays with map, filter and reduce

12 min read

grant horwood

Jan 3 '23

mysql: getting a grip on dates, times, and timezones

#mysql

14 min read

grant horwood

Dec 27 '22

managing your aws resources with python and boto3

12 min read

grant horwood

Dec 20 '22

laravel: strategies for db seeding

#laravel #php

5 min read

grant horwood

Sep 15 '22

safer file access techniques in php

12 min read

grant horwood

May 18 '22

writing command line scripts in php: part 4; key-down input

#php

9 min read

grant horwood

May 3 '22

laravel: powerful json with jsonSerialize()

#php #laravel

7 min read

grant horwood

Apr 28 '22

just enough curl for api devs

#php #curl

8 min read

grant horwood

Apr 8 '22

writing command line scripts in php: part 3; interactive input

#php

11 min read

grant horwood

Apr 4 '22

writing command line scripts in php: part 2; reading STDIN

#php

4 min read

grant horwood

Mar 31 '22

accessing google's api from your laravel api

#php #laravel

25 min read

grant horwood

Nov 2 '21

writing command line scripts in php: part 1; args, preflighting and more

#php

8 min read

grant horwood

Oct 26 '21

laravel: storing stuff in private s3 buckets

#laravel #php #s3

8 min read

grant horwood

Oct 14 '21

rocketchat with mongo 5

#mongodb #rocketchat

8 min read

grant horwood

Oct 30 '20

migrating your data from Neo4j 3.5 to the new and fancy 4.1

#neo4j

5 min read