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Packeton – Free Private PHP package repository

Whether you’re a module/extension/plugin vendor or a development agency you’ll have run into the issue of wanting to distribute packages without having them be public. What i’ve often seen used is Satis which is nice for small companies and since it’s static it can be quite performant.Another popular one is Private Packagist. This is a […]

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Adding Growatt Solar pannels to Home Assistant

Adding Growatt inverters to Home assistant. A while ago i got two Growatt inverters, however the only way to check the inverters was by using their app, or their website. However their website was not very pretty or optimised, and i’d end up rarely using their app. But i did have Home Assistant, however Home […]

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Laravel Livewire

The past week i have been trying out Laravel Livewire. In this post i will document my experiences with it, and share my thoughts about it. What is Livewire? Livewire is in some ways comparable to Vue or React as in: it updates the document live, not needing a refresh of the page.However the way […]

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Easiest local web development program for Linux

I think we’ve all had that moment where we have our Lamp/Mamp/Xampp programs installed and want to get to work on making some websites, only to be horrified by the url you have to use to access your files. Like “http://localhost/websites/laravel/project”, or even worse have difficulty setting it up because the framework is not really […]

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Blowing new life into an old Chinese cloud camera without cloud

I had this cheap old ip camera laying in the house gathering dust because the company selling the camera does not exist anymore. Now i was only able to access it from within the house using the P2PCamViewer app. Not very useful as a security, or any camera if you ask me. There was a […]

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Android

Controlling your Android phone with ADB

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a tool that has a lot of power over your Android device and every Android phone has the ability to enable this. ADB can have many user, in web development it’s used to debug a website on your phone. Because it allows you to control and see any content on […]