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A small PHP application sometimes needs its own public address. It may build a password-reset link, produce a canonical URL, or redirect a visitor to the HTTPS version of a page. The convenient shortcut is to prepend a …
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A personal website may link to a code forge, a social profile, and a publishing account, but an ordinary hyperlink says little beyond “this page points there.”…
A PHP endpoint receives bytes, not trustworthy application data. Calling json_decode() is necessary when those bytes contain JSON, but a successful decode answ…
An AI application that drafts an email and one that sends the email may use the same model, but they do not carry the same kind of authority. The first produce…
A home server often asks one small machine to do several jobs at once. A web application, database, thumbnail generator, and background worker may all be well …
An API can return 422, but a client may still need to know whether a title is missing, a date is invalid, or a state transition is no longer allowed. A status …
ActivityPub for a Personal Website — What Federation Standardizes, and What It Leaves to You A personal website usually speaks in one direction: the author pu…
Somebody is going to try to sign in to your application with the wrong password thousands of times. If your login form is on the open internet, that is not a h…
Somewhere along the way, the story of Cook Ding became a productivity meme. A butcher carves an ox for a ruler, his knife moves like a dance, and after ninetee…
A background service needs a database password before it can do useful work. Putting that password in Environment= looks convenient: the application already kn…
