Kennington reservoir drained drone images
A drained and empty Kennington reservoir images from a drone in early July 2024. The reservoir was drained in April 2024 to do a dam wall upgrade/repair, area deepening and…
Merrimu Reservoir drone images
Merrimu Reservoir from drone. Click images to view larger.
Early September spring shots
Some early September spring shots from a bushwalk, It is still too early for wildflowers.
Cloning an NVMe to SK Hynix Platinum P41 NVMe
I recently needed to clone over a smaller NVMe to a 2TB SK Hynix Platinum P41 NVMe, however I ran into the issue where it was not bootable. The fix…
Using Laravel’s deleteDirectory to delete folders and their contents
If you ever needed a simple solution in Laravel to delete an entire directory and its contents the File facade has the answer. deleteDirectory() will delete everything, both files and…
How to allow only 1 user to register in a Laravel application
How to enforce only one user to register or be registered in a Laravel web application is very simple to implement. Find your registered user controller most likely at App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisteredUserController.php…
Using React Icons
React icons is the easiest way to get all the common and popular icon packs into your React JS project. Installing with NPM npm install react-icons –save To use the…
Using SSR with your Inertia React JS Laravel app
How to make your Inertia and React JS Laravel app utilize server-side rendering and why you should use SSR for your web pages. What is SSR? SSR is server-side rendering…
Checking for undefined and null in Javascript
Undefined and null are values in JavaScript that represent the absence of a value or a variable being set. While they may seem similar they do have different meanings and…
Laravel Eloquent query builder date and time based queries
Using The Laravel Eloquent query builder to fetch and filter records based on their date and time. Here are examples for when you need to retrieve records that are older…