Adventures of a Technomancer

Laravel, Dropzone.js & S3 the right way

Problem All right, here's your motivation: Your name is Lucas, you're an average developer who wants to create beautiful things you can be proud of. One day, you'll think about hitting your clients with a "computers for dummies" book. No, forget that

My wedding party knives

Although we had a little help with things that required special tools such as the water jet cutter and the laser engraving these knives are hand made from start to finish by myself and my bride to be.

Octoprint: Push notifications

Since I'm touching on a few things Octoprint this week I thought I'd also post my method of getting regular updates from my printer when it's printing. At the time of posting I'm currently writing an update to the Octoprint

Octoprint: turn off your webcam automatically

I'm not a fan of leaving a webcam running unattended in my home, even if its pointed at my printer and a wall.

Find missing content with wget spider

After moving my blog from digital ocean a month ago I've had Google Search Console send me a few emails about broken links and missing content. And while fixing those was easy enough once pointed out to me, I wanted to

How much power does a 3D printer use?

There are three greatest questions a man can ask. These questions have no known answer and have confused geologists the world over. Today, I add another great question to the mix; How much power does my 3D printer use?

Laravel + Android push notifications

Webviews. Android developers dislike using them as an entire app replacement and I'm no different. But when your client has no money left after spending it all on iOS development do you tell them no, or do you offer an alternative

Auto-purging Cloudflare's cache with Zapier

It sounds nasty but with my aggressive caching I need a way to purge the cache when I publish a new blog post. An automated way would be best. Thus; auto-purge.

Speeding up Ghost or; how I moved everything to the cloud

My Blog used to be hosted over at DigitalOcean, on one of the smallest droplets available. But as times changed I wanted to move it in house - like actually into my house.

Git hooks and Freshdesk

When your team is using Freshdesk to manage support requests that require changes in a Git repository, tracking changes manually can be annoying and time consuming. With Git 2.9+ global hooks can take care of the trouble by adding a folder

A rant on the naming of projects

Developers are an interesting group when it comes to naming creations. In my opinion you have a few distinct groups, and they are developers who name the application after something it does (Transcoder, Mediator, Console, make), name it after something it does

Bulk remove time from JIRA

If delete an entry and copy the request as cURL, and repeat it, changing only the time entry ID you can remove your own entires in bulk. Here's a simple bash script to do exactly that.