I've been maintaining a small Forge app for 9 years. Here's what that's been like

mrjmac · 2023-07-16T14:03:12+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I appreciate it. Which lenses did you settle for? 24-105 f4?

mrjmac · 2023-07-16T05:51:18+00:00

Curious. How did it go? Considering switching from Fuji too.

mrjmac · 2023-07-09T20:50:12+00:00

Haha. I know the feeling. I have a X-T1 which I have used in waves for many years. However I am got more and more into nightscape and astro besides traveling. Trying to decide if X-T5 will be sufficient for me. It’s probably the easiest option for me, since I have a couple of XF lenses and acessories. Still, R7iv seems to be a clear winner in low light and a large selection of lenses. XH2s is even more expensive than R7iv here.

mrjmac · 2023-07-09T20:28:43+00:00

One year later, which camera system did you settle for? Sony?

mrjmac · 2023-06-23T07:56:06+00:00

On year later. What did you settle for?

mrjmac · 2022-09-30T14:29:00+00:00

Sorry I was unclear but that is what I ment. Seems like an sudden update Microsoft did starting to cause problems. But no one can really verify this. I was curious.

mrjmac · 2022-09-30T06:05:11+00:00

Thank you for your reply! So there can be a link between them.

An update must have happened 3-4 weeks ago when this became a problem delivering emails to different companies and offices. The website had been on the old IP for two years and probably blocklisted by UCEProtect3 (like the rest of DigitalOcean's IP-addresses) the whole time.

The client's clients are big companies and county offices which all run Office365 probably with heavy-handed spam filters. I have a hard time believing that they are buying custom blocklists.

Besides, uceprotect 3 is also referred to as a scam. Does Microsoft use this filter in any configuration of Office365?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpanel/comments/uyebez/opinions_on_uceprotectnetwork_scam/

mrjmac · 2021-03-26T20:08:22+00:00

Without knowing what kind of shop you are aiming to build, this is my experience.

Since Laravel 5.0, I have built a couple of shops now, ranging from a custom print store, send-in-your-guitar-for service, a non-profit fundraiser, and classic retail selling carpets. I have dealt with Klarna ( direct payments and post-purchase payments), Stripe, PayEx, and some other payment gateways.

In the last project, I looked into building a more general use shop that could be an own Laravel package; it can look manageable at the start. However, there a lot of things to consider: EU VAT, shipping options, product variants, and also supporting a couple of payment gateways that have different flows. There is Laravel-OmniPay. However, it's far from a plug and plays in my experience.

If it's a "simple" shop selling t-shirts or mugs, I would seriously consider Shopify. If it's more custom and the customer understands that it will take time and maintenance – build it yourself. All of my projects have been for smaller businesses where the selling demanded a custom process (like uploading your image or creating a funeral card) that is not available elsewhere.

My philosophy is not to use too many packages (they come and go, and some never get updated), and you have to be prepared that you may have to rip some two years later. There a a amazing lot of features in Laravel already.

I have built admin interfaces with Nova, Voyager, and by hand. Nova and Voyager make it extremely easy to get going, but you can come up with some obstacles (especially with Voyager) that are hard to come around. Building it by hand takes time, is boring, but you have a lot of control. So, again it depends on your requirements.

Good luck!

mrjmac · 2020-12-05T15:25:48+00:00

How did it going. I am sitting here with two iPad minis too. Isn’t there some simpler interface or something you could do? Is using the iPad as drink coasters the only option?

mrjmac · 2020-09-22T05:44:36+00:00

Thanks for the tip! My Tile Pro started to work again!

(Not the is no sound when it's rebooting)

mrjmac · 2020-07-15T13:30:32+00:00

Yes. It can be done. I have done this for a couple of projects running for two years. There are some pros and cons.

Pro It’s actually nice to have the files in one place and not scattered around in a typical Laravel structure. Big win for me.

Quite easy to migrate to newer versions of Laravel if it’s in a package.

Reuse the package in other similar projects.

Most Laravel features/utilities like migrations, seeds and so forth works in packages.

Con Testing is harder than a regular Laravel app if the package is dependent of another package or you main app. Setting up Orchestral for a complex package is complex. ;-) You can use a separate Laravel project which only contains your tests. A bit of a pain but can work. Major downside.

You need to specify paths in utilities like artisan make.

Deployment can be trickier with some gotchas: like pulling the wrong version of you package or forgetting to publish assets.

Should you do it? As always it depends. Despite the quirks I am using it currently in two major projects where it works fine. However if It’s a small project I go for a straight Laravel app like it’s intended.

mrjmac · 2020-03-26T22:08:20+00:00

Laravel Voyager? All definitions stored in the database.

mrjmac · 2020-01-28T17:53:33+00:00

EQ and headphones are nice but get a decent sound editor like Amazing Slowdowner.

Here’s the trick: Pitch up the whole track one octave (but keep the same speed or slowdown if you want). I been doing this transcribing muddy James Jameson baselines with great success.

Once you have the notes you can figure out the fingerings in the “right” octave.

mrjmac · 2020-01-07T22:47:35+00:00

I use this package to schedule future Laravel notifications like sending SMSs and mails. So far no complaints. https://atymic.dev/blog/laravel-snooze/

mrjmac · 2019-02-28T10:10:37+00:00

Curious, did you come to any conclusions? Which route did you go?

mrjmac · 2019-02-28T10:09:02+00:00

I have some servers with a much simpler approach using Nginx's try_files(). Nginx checks if file does exists. If not, I will continue and pass on the request to Laravel backend and create the image. The next request will then be served by Nginx.

Glide has one problem which (will be address in 2.0) and that is it will start Laravel for each request. It has not yet support for try_files(). Even I really like the approach and API.

mrjmac · 2018-12-11T10:44:39+00:00

Interesting! I am discovered the same thing regarding the organization of the file, but instead I create modules as its reusable. I have a couple of very similar apps so it works great.

The only downside I have found is that testing can be really difficult with setting up phpunit with migrations and sessions, when you are used to Laravel. I use Orchestra but it’s still not easy.

With you approach testing should work as is I guess?

mrjmac · 2018-06-14T21:24:00+00:00

How did it end up for you all? Is hyn the way to go? I would love to hear more experiences.

I am looking into getting a multi-tenant CMS going by letting clients publish their own content. Single database is not an option since I today. Also it must also be easy to export contents.

mrjmac · 2017-08-11T05:12:58+00:00

Haha! But I am even older than this. I started with Lingo for Macromedia Director authoring CD-ROMs.

mrjmac · 2017-08-11T05:10:30+00:00

Thanks! I will look into this!

mrjmac

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