Author: Joel Gross

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive

Finally, our growing debt makes the American dream more elusive, and in doing so weakens us all. A trillion-dollar deficit is nothing more than a deferred tax bill for $1 trillion. For a country that was in part founded on the notion of no taxation without representation, how does this pilfering of future generations’ wealth possibly make sense?… read more “Mark Sanford – a Good Boomer on Our Debt”

I looked around for a way to add competitors manually in WebCEO and didn’t see it.

I found it as they leave a blank space to type in competitor names:

https://mobile.twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1225561131122597896

I have been getting some of the best workouts of my life with the spinner bike Chrono combined with Zwift. I think Zwift is intended to be used with a smart trainer or an actual bike on rollers… The community seems to be a lot of genuine bike racers. I think there are fair amount of people using stationary bikes though as well.… read more “Spinner Bike Chrono with Zwift”

is that feeling you get when you realize you fired off a process that doesn’t stop when you close the browser, doesn’t stop when you restart the IDE, and you have to shut down the machine itself.

I installed this package https://github.com/dweidner/laravel-goutte and followed the readme instructions. However, when I put this in my HomeController:

$crawler = Goutte::request('GET', 'https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=Laravel');
$crawler->filter('.result__title .result__a')->each(function ($node) {
    dump($node->text());
});
return view('welcome');

I got an error “Undefined class Goutte”. When I mouseover Goutte in phpstorm, it only gives me the option to create a new class, not import a facade.… read more “PHPStorm Laravel Not Finding Alias Class for Laravel Goutte”

This is my log of trying to get Xdebug to work on FPM (I gave up on CLI after a couple of hours). I want it to work on the PHPStorm version of terminal so I can do everything inside of PHPStorm without going to Git Bash. This is for Windows 10 and Laravel 6.x.

These settings work for me now:

sudo vim /etc/php/7.4/fpm/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini… read more “Xdebug Setup for PHPStorm for Laravel 6.x on Windows 10”

You would think I would understand my body now that I am in my mid 30’s… But I have learned a lot recently while experimenting with my diet and fasting and supplements.

Today, I learned what happens when you eat way too much fiber. You get a horrible stomach ache. Its not constipation since had I had multiple big bowel movements last night and this morning.… read more “Learning About My Body”