Joel Clermont

Maybe you’ve received a notice from Amazon that certificates are changing on your S3 bucket on March 23, 2021. Several people have asked me: Will my Laravel app break on March 23?

Recently I ran into a change in behavior in my app depending on whether routes were cached or not. Here’s what I found, and how I dealt with it.

Ever get annoyed when your password manager doesn’t know how to fill out a form on a website? Or maybe it tries to fill in something you don’t want it to? If you build sites, here are some tips to save your users from similar annoyances.

Recently I wanted to have backticks in my git commit message. It didn’t work as expected though.

I prefer to use Git from the command line, but sometimes a GUI tool does a better job with specific tasks. One of those is diff highlighting, but today I found a way to make diffing with the Git CLI a lot nicer. Let’s look at an example.

Many times you can trace a bug back to a particular code change that was made. Or maybe it was caused by a package upgrade. But have you ever had something break when no code changed at all? How does that happen?

Recently I upgraded phpdotenv on an older project and my AWS connection stopped working. Why did one package upgrade break the other? And how did I fix it? Read on for details.

This is a really specific error you might never run into, but when you do, this blog post is here for you.

Recently I was creating a new table and using the timestamps helper in the migration. I noticed something that seemed wrong, so I dug a little deeper and learned something new about Laravel and MySQL.

Many years ago, when I moved my blog from WordPress to Hugo, I was very pleased to find Disqus as a way to still have comments on a statically generated site. Today, however, I have completely removed Disqus from this site.