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All about Meilisearch

In four videos this post covers stuff for leadership, security, and devs. If you work in web development, take a look at this. It’s a very cool piece of tech that makes life a lot easier. Intro ...

Intro to n8n - how to work with a spreadsheet

This is a little course I made to help those new to n8n. It has three parts: Upload a spreadsheet to n8n Change the data in the spreadsheet Download the spreadsheet Pretty common stuff, b...

Ten n8n tips

n8n is a new-ish ETL tool I’ve been using for the better part of a year. It’s built with Typescript and Vue, and is Open Source, self hosted and free. Their cloud offering is a good price compared ...

The Silo Problem

What is The silo problem? The silo problem is a name I’m using for any knowledge or experience based bottlenecks in projects. It's all too common these days to be expected to know everything. ...

MeiliSearch Manager

So I built this thingy Meilisearch is an open source, drop in, direct replacement for Algolia. A lot like Klevu, this tool allows us to stand up a powerful search and index engine to make our fron...

SITREP 02 2023

Hiya! I haven’t contributed to my own darn blog in a while now so I figured an easy way to get back into things was just to write a little update. Pivot! Pivvott! I’ve been hard at work for Reli...

How to ... Entities Part 1

A very common question in Magento development is How to bla bla entity(ies). I find myself doing this from time to time as well, either out of laziness or because I’ve run into something quirky. ...

Xdebug 3 and Magento 2

Xdebug - you should use it Xdebug is an extension for PHP, and provides a range of features to improve the PHP development experience. This post will focus on the feature we use most often - ...

Magento 2 Data Patches

Data Patches; They’re awesome. Before 2.3, Magento used Install and Upgrade scripts to modify your schema, and other things. This has been deprecated in favor of a much easier (I think) declaratio...

Transfer Exchange message tracking logs to Mysql with Talend Open Studio

In short, we are pushing a csv into a database on a schedule using Talend Open Studio as our ETL tool. For this post though, we’re getting specific with exchange tracking logs, as this was a fun t...