Alasdair Watson

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Links for Thursday October 19th 2017

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Alasdair
  • 19 Wikipedia Pages That’ll Send You Into A Week-Long Wikihole
    When I have 19 weeks to spare, I will come back to this.

Links for Friday September 15th 2017

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Alasdair
  • After the flood | Projects | AtF Spark
    Font-based sparkline charts. That is some widlly clever typographical shit right there.

Links for Friday September 1st 2017

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Alasdair
  • devjin0617/vue2-admin-lte: adminLTE to vuejs v2.x converting project
    Looks like it might give me a leg up on, yes, you guessed it, a work thing.

Links for Friday August 18th 2017

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Alasdair
  • Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective | Scientific Reports
    The actual science behind what happens when you add a drop of water to your whisky. I followed very little of it, but I'm glad someone has done the research, and that they've found out what loads of whisky lover already knew.

Links for Thursday August 17th 2017

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Alasdair
  • jenssegers/laravel-mongodb: A MongoDB based Eloquent model and Query builder for Laravel (Moloquent)
    This blog has become a simple list of useful tech-stack stuff again, hasn't it?

Links for Wednesday August 16th 2017

Posted on August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 by Alasdair
  • delatbabel/elocryptfive: Automatically encrypt and decrypt Laravel 5 Eloquent values
    Might be useful for work as well.
  • Vue-Multiselect | A Vue.js library
    I shall be wanting this, or something like it, later.

Links for Thursday August 10th 2017

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Alasdair
  • Using Laravel’s Storage facade in Lumen
    Handy guide to doing, well, exactly what it says on the tin.

Links for Monday August 7th 2017

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Alasdair
  • How I expose Laravel permissions in Vue.js – Sergi Tur Badenas – Medium
    Useful – introduces a minor security loophole, but one that's easy to correct for on the back end.

Links for Monday July 17th 2017

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Alasdair
  • Keynote extractor
    A quick and easy way to get web pages out of keynote presentations.

Links for Wednesday July 5th 2017

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Alasdair
  • InfyOm Laravel Generator : Laravel Scaffold, CRUD, API Generator
    Suspect this will massive speed up a work job.

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