September 7, 2026

Power off and reboot Ubuntu Linux server after predefined time

I have a tiny server for my own applications in my local network. But this server doesn't need to run 24/7. So one day I thought about how could I turn it off at a specific time and reboot it...

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September 4, 2026

Quick fix for slow Terminal in PopOS 24.04

I've observed, that on my installation of PopOS 24.04, when I run commands in Terminal and sometimes when starting other applications like Firefox the time until it starts or I get a print in the...

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August 4, 2026

Extent select filter in Filament to show only items with all selected elements

In a web application which is utilizing Filament I came across a special use case for filtering the tags of some elements. Typically when you use the select filter with multiple entries Filament will...

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June 26, 2026

Changing dnsmasq configuration to use a custom DNS server

I've recently run into a special scenario on my Ubuntu based Linux PC. For PHP development I'm using Laravel Valet. Under the hood Valet for Linux is using dnsmasq. But I've configured a custom DNS...

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March 3, 2025

Laravel falsly uses hot loading via Vite

I recently encountered an issue in my development environment where a Laravel application was only loading assets correctly when Vite was running via npnpm run dev. Upon inspecting the...

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July 28, 2024

Use an existing Laravel app with Laravel Sail

Most of the time, when I work on my side projects in PHP, I use Herd on my Mac to run it. But lately I wanted to try out how good development on my Windows machine is. To test this, I installed...

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