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21 Sep 25

Server

Firewall

For further security (on top of Fail2Ban) i implemented a firewall.

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19 Sep 25

Server

Fail2Ban

Server was unresponsive

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17 Sep 25

Heroku

Database Upgrade

Heroku announced the deprecation of Postgres v14.

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04 Aug 25

Ruby

Command Line

$ ruby -I lib -r rgsql -e 'RgSql.start_server'

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04 Aug 25

Database

Copy to Server

dump, scp to server, restore (ensuring correct user specified)

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24 Jul 25

Bootstrap

Class Inconsistency

MSP and LSP in the navbar both refer to a class bg-body-tertiary that refers to a css variable --bs-tertiary-bg-rgb. The colour comes through differently in each app.

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18 Jun 25

Heroku

Bash

Access files on Heroku server explicitly

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18 Jun 25

Rails

Rake

~/environment/rails-apps/membership-system-pro$ rake about

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18 Jun 25

SEO

sitemap

extended msp sitemap for dynamically named blog urls with

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17 Jun 25

Linux

Bash Script

set up a backup script on my server

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15 Jun 25

Linux

Disk Usage

$ du -hs /path/to/directory

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12 Jun 25

Database

pg_restore

restore a database

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11 Jun 25

Git

rewrite history

when i made wack repo public i received a Google notification about exposing an API key

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10 Jun 25

Linux

find

found folder of name 'timetable', type directory starting from current folder (.)

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10 Jun 25

Linux

read a redis rdb file

found a random dump.rdb file in /environment which i wanted to peek at before deleting.

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09 Jun 25

WSL

Open file in browser

$ wslview non-rails-apps/CV/index.html

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04 Jun 25

Rails

credentials

config/credentials.yml.enc is an encrypted file for storing app-specific keys securely. It can't be opened directly, but :

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04 Jun 25

Linux

scp

scp is always run from the local machine. Just reverse the source and destination paths accordingly:

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04 Jun 25

Server

Hosting Rails Apps

key files/commands:

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26 May 25

Rails

Hotwire

Implemented this dynamic form shown on Medium on /experimentation/experiment /users/new.

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25 May 25

VS Code

PostgreSQL Extension

Added PostgreSQL extension to VS code.

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21 May 25

Github

Collaborator

Added Pawel as collaborator to Technical Diary on Github

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16 May 25

Linux

Backup

backup files from Ubuntu (WSL) home folder (the ~) to Windows

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13 May 25

Rails

ActionText

on installing ActionText a migration is created which creates a table in the database action_text_rich_texts. This is not backed in the usual way by an ActiveRecord model, ActionTextRichText, however.

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12 May 25

Heroku

Restart

After adding ActionText to MSP and running a migration to remove note column from Clients table, app fell over in production with hard to trace problem. Probalably some 'caching of schema' issue which

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09 May 25

Tools

html to pdf

For non-techincal CV, not online I could not pass a URL to a converter.

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05 May 25

WSL

download to Windows

In the process of installing Docker on WSL, instructions say download a DEB package:

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05 May 25

Docker

tutorial

Docker Crash Course TechWorld with Nana

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29 Apr 25

Fly

Production Console

The documented way to access the production console (with ssh) gave a silent crash (out of memory from fly logs.. probably tight with my free plan)

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28 Apr 25

Git

Dependabot Pull Request

Received 4 Github Dependbot Security Pull Requests.

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28 Apr 25

Bash Script

Backup

added a script to Technical Diary to automate a timestamped local database backup

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28 Apr 25

Rails

Query Pattern

Implemented ItemQuery class in Technical Diary to abstract all querying logic out of controller.

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24 Apr 25

Rails

Cache

monopoly_deal is Rails 7 .0 with ESM

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21 Apr 25

Database

PostgreSQL practise

easy WebDEvs quiz.

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19 Apr 25

Ruby

Debug

Followed through a rough AppSignal debug tutorial.

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19 Apr 25

Rails

Debug

Web Console gem

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12 Apr 25

Rails

Hotwire

Amended the flow on MSP for client cancellations.

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11 Apr 25

JavaScript

Intersection Observer

Implemented Intersection Observer API on MSP homepage

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11 Apr 25

JavaScript

Sortable JS

added the library to experiment with dragging rows in a table.

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10 Apr 25

Rails

Routes

Understanding the Match Method in Rails Router

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10 Apr 25

Gem

MonkeysPaw

tinkered with an AI webpage generator. Uses Gemini.

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09 Apr 25

Rails

pull request

made minor change to getting started guide

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09 Apr 25

Rails

docs

read getting started with Rails

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06 Apr 25

Database

Postgresql tutorial

PostgreSQL Tutorial Full Course 2022

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03 Apr 25

PC

font size

win+U to open display settings.

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29 Mar 25

Rails

CI

first push of technical diary to github gave some CI workflow errors.

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29 Mar 25

Rails

testing

rails t won't run system tests.

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27 Mar 25

SEO

url removal

removed https://www.thespacejuhu.in from google indexing.

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27 Mar 25

SEO

indexing

Submitted thespacefitness to Bing.

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26 Mar 25

Rails

License

took chatgpt advice on how to add license to MSP.

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25 Mar 25

Rails

Action Text

• Started Technical Diary project.

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24 Mar 25

SEO

sitemap

added a sitemap to MSP.

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23 Mar 25

Windows

open powershell as administrator

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