Chris 
I’ve got an idea for a much larger scale Java project, but I want to work my way up from the bottom and make sure I’ve nailed the basics before diving in too deep. For a long while I’ve wanted to do more Java posts on here, but I couldn’t figure out a way to … Read more
Remember back to being a newb with Spring Boot? No? Well, feel free to tag along with my current experiences and chuckle away as you go. For today I wanted to run my first Flyway migration in a Spring Boot project, and for seemingly inexplicable reasons, the migration file never ran. OK, so let’s quickly … Read more
I recently finished a really big refactoring from NextJS 13 to NextJS 14, mostly prompted by the server actions stuff, allowing me to entirely drop a publicly exposed GraphQL service, and do everything in backend Postgres. That all worked wonderfully. Very pleased with that – any time I can delete stuff and yet maintain the … Read more
A simple one on the surface of it, but I couldn’t find a quick answer. Hopefully this saves you some time Let’s say you have a Google Sheet where you have a bunch of rows, and you want to count the total number of rows in a range dynamically. In other words, when you add … Read more
I recently had to do a proof of concept site using NextJS 14. I hadn’t used NextJS since version 11, and who knew how much could change in 3 major versions? The big change is the use of Server Actions, and then the App Router / /app directory, as opposed to the older client server … Read more
Right then, ready for something that seems like it ought to be super easy, but is infact a complete pain in the backside? Good, because in today’s post we are going to add a custom social icon in to display in the standard WordPress social icons block. No plugins needed! That’s a bonus. But you … Read more
Today I needed access to an environment variable whilst building a Docker image from a Dockerfile. To make the example concrete, I wanted to get access to the Git commit hash exposed in a CircleCI build. The idea was to then use this commit hash inside my build as a cache buster on client side … Read more
