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Those who know me know that I'm quite a tech geek and also a bit obsessed lately with productivity. I've been working with at least two monitors for years now. I firmly believe that the more things you can have in view, the less time you waste switching between viewing...
In some cases, it is necessary to empty a file without deleting it.A typical case is to have a log file on the server, which has grown excessively and occupies a lot of disk space. To empty the syslog file it can be done as follows: sudo truncate -s 0...
A command that I use a lot to see the space occupied by files and directories is the "du" command.By setting some parameters it is very convenient to use: du -sm * | sort -nr | head -5 Head -5 is to return only the first 5 results, you can...
Note: I am using the official https://hub.docker.com/r/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/ image. I have had a small problem when trying to import a fairly large database using the PhpMyAdmin. When you have large databases you need to increase the default php limits post_max_size = 50M upload_max_filesize = 50M The problem I have had is...
In some cases, you do not have a PhpMyAdmin, and even if you do, it will always be faster to use the command line to import large databases.As a general rule, I export all databases in compressed format (gzip). This makes them take up less space and I can upload...
Today I had a little problem trying to update a website in Drupal 8. This website has always had a composer in version 1, and I have already updated it several times. But I'm just starting to use docker images for local development with composer v2. Today I got the...
Although the easy setup of WordPress has made a big name for itself, the open-source CMS is still far from perfect. There are cases where open source users prefer Drupal as their CMS of choice because of the advantages it offers. For those who are new to the CMS world...
I have several servers, to facilitate the management and detect incidents I am using dockers and DataDog (in its docker version).For those who don't know, DataDog is a monitoring system for servers. It allows many things. I am only using 2 of them: Infrastructure statistics (CPU usage, RAM, disk space...
Drupal's "clean URLs" rewrite query strings into human-readable text. A query string is a text in a URL preceded by a "?". For example https://example.com/?q=node/44 Query strings get in the way of search engines and are bad SEO practices. Google is not bad at understanding URLs with query strings, but...
Component-based theming is becoming very popular nowadays due to several reasons. The most important ones are reusability and portability of components. Pattern Lab is a front-end framework that uses an atomic design architecture to implement the component-based design. In this article, we will discuss more about Pattern Lab and how...
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