Michael
@thms.uk
Full stack web developer currently working mostly with PHP / Laravel, Vanilla Javascript and SCSS. Love learning more about (almost) anything, but particularly MySQL and InfoSec. Husband, father of two boys, Christian.
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It appears as though OpenAI's crawler is crawling the web with tracing headers set. Wasting even more resources than they already do by instructing all the tracing libraries out their to trace all of OpenAI's requests...
blog.thms.uk/2025/05/open...
#web #webdev #ai #openai
blog.thms.uk/2025/05/open...
#web #webdev #ai #openai
Reason 1,000,001 why OpenAI sucks - blog.thms.uk
AAfter days of debugging unexplained span usage in Sentry - despite an ultra-low sampling rate - I discovered `traceparent` headers in requests traced back to OpenAI. Turns out, it's always AI.
blog.thms.uk
May 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It appears as though OpenAI's crawler is crawling the web with tracing headers set. Wasting even more resources than they already do by instructing all the tracing libraries out their to trace all of OpenAI's requests...
blog.thms.uk/2025/05/open...
#web #webdev #ai #openai
blog.thms.uk/2025/05/open...
#web #webdev #ai #openai
Yesterday I had a fun discussion with my son who had written a seeder to create the inital admin user in his Laravel project.
So that led me to write this blog post about Laravel’s PromptsForMissingInput interface:
blog.thms.uk/2025/04/prom...
#laravel #php
So that led me to write this blog post about Laravel’s PromptsForMissingInput interface:
blog.thms.uk/2025/04/prom...
#laravel #php
Using Laravel's `PromptsForMissingInput` interface - blog.thms.uk
Discover how to enhance your Laravel Artisan commands using the PromptsForMissingInput trait. Learn to dynamically prompt for missing arguments, apply real-time validation, and leverage Laravel Prompt...
blog.thms.uk
April 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Yesterday I had a fun discussion with my son who had written a seeder to create the inital admin user in his Laravel project.
So that led me to write this blog post about Laravel’s PromptsForMissingInput interface:
blog.thms.uk/2025/04/prom...
#laravel #php
So that led me to write this blog post about Laravel’s PromptsForMissingInput interface:
blog.thms.uk/2025/04/prom...
#laravel #php
Did you know you can push jobs into a Laravel queue from outside your application? Whether you're offloading tasks from a Node.js service or integrating Laravel with external systems, queues make it easy to handle background processing efficiently.
blog.thms.uk/2025/03/lara...
#laravel #php
blog.thms.uk/2025/03/lara...
#laravel #php
Cross-Language Queues: Sending Jobs from Node.js to Laravel - blog.thms.uk
Did you know you can push jobs into a Laravel queue from outside your application? Whether you're offloading tasks from a Node.js service or integrating Laravel with external systems, queues make it e...
blog.thms.uk
March 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Did you know you can push jobs into a Laravel queue from outside your application? Whether you're offloading tasks from a Node.js service or integrating Laravel with external systems, queues make it easy to handle background processing efficiently.
blog.thms.uk/2025/03/lara...
#laravel #php
blog.thms.uk/2025/03/lara...
#laravel #php
You probably all know this, but it was new to me: Carbon supports macros to extend the API
I recently used a macro to round the output of longAbsoluteDiffForHumans in a Laravel project, and because it’s new to me I wrote a short blog post:
blog.thms.uk/2025/01/cust...
#php #laravel #carbon
I recently used a macro to round the output of longAbsoluteDiffForHumans in a Laravel project, and because it’s new to me I wrote a short blog post:
blog.thms.uk/2025/01/cust...
#php #laravel #carbon
Creating a Custom PHP Carbon formatter using macros - blog.thms.uk
Using a Carbon macro to customise formatting of date intervals.
blog.thms.uk
January 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You probably all know this, but it was new to me: Carbon supports macros to extend the API
I recently used a macro to round the output of longAbsoluteDiffForHumans in a Laravel project, and because it’s new to me I wrote a short blog post:
blog.thms.uk/2025/01/cust...
#php #laravel #carbon
I recently used a macro to round the output of longAbsoluteDiffForHumans in a Laravel project, and because it’s new to me I wrote a short blog post:
blog.thms.uk/2025/01/cust...
#php #laravel #carbon
The other day I needed to find a way to show a completely different site to users based on their IP addresses and/or cookies in their browser.
I wrote blog post about how I accomplished this here:
blog.thms.uk/2024/07/smar...
#ngnix #web #webDev
I wrote blog post about how I accomplished this here:
blog.thms.uk/2024/07/smar...
#ngnix #web #webDev
Smart Routing with Nginx: Serving Different Sites Based on IP and Cookies - blog.thms.uk
This post shows how you can use nginx to set a different website root based on a combination of the visitor's IP address and cookies. You can use this to allow staff and contractors to test a new site...
blog.thms.uk
July 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
The other day I needed to find a way to show a completely different site to users based on their IP addresses and/or cookies in their browser.
I wrote blog post about how I accomplished this here:
blog.thms.uk/2024/07/smar...
#ngnix #web #webDev
I wrote blog post about how I accomplished this here:
blog.thms.uk/2024/07/smar...
#ngnix #web #webDev
This morning I learned how to use sessions and session cookies with axios in Node.js.
I wrote a very short blog post about this:
blog.thms.uk/2024/06/node...
#node #nodejs #axios
I wrote a very short blog post about this:
blog.thms.uk/2024/06/node...
#node #nodejs #axios
Using session cookies with Node.js and Axios - blog.thms.uk
This post shows how to use `axios-support-wrapper` to add support for `tough-cookies` to the Axios HTTP client in Node.js, so that you can use session cookies in Node.js
blog.thms.uk
June 21, 2024 at 11:34 AM
This morning I learned how to use sessions and session cookies with axios in Node.js.
I wrote a very short blog post about this:
blog.thms.uk/2024/06/node...
#node #nodejs #axios
I wrote a very short blog post about this:
blog.thms.uk/2024/06/node...
#node #nodejs #axios
It really annoys me that in Laravel 11 you cannot have multiple listeners for the same event in an array like you could in L10.
It's not like it's a big deal, as it's simple enough to implement, but just seems like a step backwards.
What do you think?
blog.thms.uk/2024/05/even...
#Laravel #PHP
It's not like it's a big deal, as it's simple enough to implement, but just seems like a step backwards.
What do you think?
blog.thms.uk/2024/05/even...
#Laravel #PHP
Event Listeners in Laravel 11 - blog.thms.uk
Simplifying event listener registration in Laravel 11
blog.thms.uk
May 25, 2024 at 7:56 AM
It really annoys me that in Laravel 11 you cannot have multiple listeners for the same event in an array like you could in L10.
It's not like it's a big deal, as it's simple enough to implement, but just seems like a step backwards.
What do you think?
blog.thms.uk/2024/05/even...
#Laravel #PHP
It's not like it's a big deal, as it's simple enough to implement, but just seems like a step backwards.
What do you think?
blog.thms.uk/2024/05/even...
#Laravel #PHP