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PHP Troubles

thetheoreticaldiver.org

The recently published PHP vulnerabilities also affected this host (as, unfortunately, wordpress is written in PHP). I did not update the debian system on TheTheoreticalDiver for far too long. The price was that it did not have the required updates for PHP available anymore and thus I had to update…

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Automating Oracle IMPDP Schema Refresh from a FULL Data Pump Export

by Osman DİNÇ on dincosman.comArticle

This article discusses the automation of schema refreshing in Oracle databases using Bash scripts with the Data Pump utility. It outlines how the script accepts a schema name, locates the latest export directory, checks schema existence, terminates sessions, drops the schema if it exists, imports…

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MindDump

by Kuber Mehta on kuber.studioArticle

Hey! Welcome to my Blog, I’m Kuber Mehta, founder of PolyThink Labs and previously TREAT (acq.) I like to build (& break) things across AI, technology, and whatever else catches ...

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wait a minute you guys have to watch this firefox ad

on docholligay.tumblr.comArticle

nina-chai-rinah: oysters-aint-for-me: wait a minute you guys have to watch this firefox ad In case this goes wide, I need to address something that made a lot of people leave Firefox. If you were one of the people who left because of the memory bloat issue that plagued the browser from version three…

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How to make a systemd service

by betaveros on betaveros.bearblog.devArticle

On a modern Linux computer, systemd lets you run a program and automatically restart it when the computer reboots and/or the program crashes. (Among many, many other things.) tl;dr Save a file like the following to /etc/systemd/system/myserver.service : [Unit] Description = My Python server…

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10 Hidden Costs of Cheap Software Development (And How to Avoid Them)

by Tejas GK on tejasgk.comArticle

When businesses compare software development quotes, it's tempting to choose the cheapest option. On paper, saving thousands of dollars sounds like a smart decision. But in software, the cheapest quote often becomes the most expensive project. The real cost isn't what you pay upfront—it's what you…

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There is NO cache

by Tomas Votruba on tomasvotruba.comArticle

The cost of a slow language is called cache. That's why [Easy CS](https://github.com/symplify/easy-coding-standard) runs only on files changed since the last time it ran, Rector and PHPStan run only on files affected through the dependency tree since last time, and Pest has…

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Building a MyST authoring environment to identify things that MyST core could improve

on chrisholdgraf.comArticle

Something that has bugged me for a long time is that [MyST](https://mystmd.org) doesn't have a lot of support for *authors* to write MyST documents more effectively. MyST documents have a ton of rich metadata inside them, but it has mostly been used for making the *reader* experience more…

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Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki

on justinangel.netArticle

Hi Folks, This is a short blog post to share with you my latest project: Windows Phone 7 Development Best Practices Wiki. What’s this Wiki about? “This document represents current consensus around development best practices for Windows Phone 7. These best practices are collaboratively developed and…

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Writing

on jtarchie.comArticle

# Writing A note on my writing style. I write as I speak. Newest first. 2025-01-26 Efficient API Design: Avoiding Costly External Requests 2024-08-30 Exploring Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime 2024-07-02 Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite 2023-11-15 Deploying a Rails Application…

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For modders

on teaaddictyt.tumblr.comArticle

Hey ya’ll, Just wanted to share (again) that we have a handy dandy Google Sheet tracking Maxis and custom Global BHAVs, for any modders who might be interested in making custom globals. This sheet was born from @picknmixsims’s older offline version, which I suggested moving to an online format for…

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Checking In

by Ricardo Sanchez on rcrdo.comArticle

Before leaving for China, I looked at the numbers from both of my apps and decided to stop trying to sell them. RollScrub is going open source. Pura Letra stays, but I’m done trying to make money from it.

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on smidgeo.comArticle

10/28/2026, 10:12:33 PM At the learning to program meetup, there were more volunteer helpers than learners again, so I didn't help anyone this time, but oddly enough, I ended up talking to another helper about Pure Data (he uses Max/MSP, the commercial fork) and partials. He thought that octaves…

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Testing pblog - GP

by geoff at ng5p dot com on ng5p.comArticle

Testing pblog - GP Wednesday 4-19-23 This line has four pound signs in front of it They look like little waffles OH or they could be hashtags I’m attempting to make this work. Dont’ really know what I’m doing This line has four pound signs in front of it A new variable was added to the main pblog.sh…

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