Author Archives: rrrhys

A simple hook to poll a server for updates every n milliseconds, and remove itself on unmount. usePollingUpdate will call pollingFunction every interval milliseconds, and clean up after itself.

const debouncedOnChangeText = useCallback(_.debounce(onChangeText, 150), []) Calls the onChangeText handler only every 150ms, without recreating it over and over.

Went for my first overnight hike, and who knows what I’ll forget later. Cooking Cutlery kit (Knife/Fork/Spoon thing) Hiking Stove – Saucepan + bowl + cooking base kit Gas Canister for Hiking Stove (1 lg, 1 sm) Newspaper for fire Hiking 3L water, across 3 containers (one for way, one for there, one for way […]

A breakdown of my micro-saas framework used for fast delivery of micro-saas apps.

There’s this tricky part to making a SaaS that making the SaaS is the tiniest part of it. I made this simple service – after setting up an SMS template, you can queue SMS messages to send to people. It’s simple and powerful, and is intended to drive customers to re-engage your service provider in […]

In my 20’s, I always had a side project or two going. Most of them weren’t $10m businesses, but all of them would have customers now if I set them up and left them running. Every single one of them was a sound idea in some sense. Now that I’ve had 4 kids, reasonably happily […]

I keep a personal journal sporadically. Last year I dropped off from ~March 2020 and picked it back up on May 28, 2020. It was the period that coronavirus was the worst it got in Sydney* (*Simpsons ref: worst it got in Sydney, so far.) Every day I review the entry from a week ago, […]

One of those ‘all the time’ patterns I can never quite remember that is hard to google for. The piece of code: Explanation: In this case, the child/relative is defined like this:

It’s all going to take a while to work out. I’ve got an old online campsite booking tool that I charge the original customer $1k/year to keep switched on. It looks, feels and quacks like a SaaS, so will be useful to get some re-exposure to a lot of the side pieces to running the […]

Given an OpenAPI API endpoint, if you can export the OpenAPI JSON specification, it can easily be turned into a client library for use in laravel. Download the swagger.json file to the current folder. Run: docker run –rm -v ${PWD}:/local openapitools/openapi-generator-cli generate -i “/local/swagger.json” -g php -o /local/out/php Under the ./out/ folder is now a […]