When your server is down, it’s stressful. I’ve just recovered from an issue with WordPress where the PHP container was crippling my server because – for reasons I cannot explain – connectivity to the database had just died. This actually happened to me on another server a few months ago, and I wasn’t that bothered … Read more
Short and sweet for this one. I had a failing cron job in Kubernetes which had run several times overnight. I wanted to delete many instances of errored pods, without having to resort to using a manual delete pod command. And the command to remove: After which they should all be terminated. Excellent.
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
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
You know the drill: leave the office for the day on Wednesday, everything works. Open the laptop Thursday morning, errors everywhere. No? It can’t just be me… surely. Well, today’s issue was when I ran my Jest tests, all of a sudden I started to see this: And this kinda tells you what is wrong. … Read more
Today’s error is likely going to make you want to kick yourself. I certainly felt like quite a wally after realising my mistake. But I do like to blog these as I hope that by doing so, I shame myself into remembering the solution in the future. OK, the error message: It doesn’t massively impact … Read more
How can you see the logs from a Pod that crashed in Kubernetes? That was the question I needed to answer when I took a look the output from watching the running Pods in my namespace: From the above I could see that several of the pods had been regularly restarting. That was unexpected. The … Read more
Here’s a fun one I wouldn’t have spotted for quite a while longer, had I not smashed my phone last weekend. Long story short, I dropped my Google Pixel 6 shattering the screen, and decided to switch to iPhone for the first time… ever. Related to the RangeError problem in the title, but not to … Read more