A postal code can look like a number without being one. If an importer converts "00123" to 123, the leading zeros have already disappeared. Converting the result back to a string does not recover them. Canadian-shaped values such as "A1A 1A1" also contain letters and a significant space.
For an address form test, preserving the postal string is onl...
Yesterday I fixed a bug that had been breaking ForkCount for days. The app worked in a browser but failed when installed as a PWA. The fix: stop using redirects after login, use React state instead, and set detectSessionInUrl: false on the Supabase client so the installed app never tries to parse a URL that doesn't exist in standalone mode.
That's the technical part. It's f...
AppConfig feature flags let you switch on new features in Lambda without redeploying, and they do it step by step instead of for everyone at once. That last part is why I stop using Parameter Store once a switch changes real behavior. A value in Parameter Store applies everywhere immediately. A flag in AppConfig first reaches a share of your execution environments, gets watched, and rolls back ...
I replaced a production e-commerce server running Amazon Linux 2 (PHP 8.2 / mod_php) with a new Amazon Linux 2023 instance (PHP 8.3 / php-fpm). The database is a managed service shared by both, so the only things to move were code, uploaded files, sessions, and templates edited through the admin panel.
The result: the maintenance page was up for about 6 ...
Think about the last time you looked up a doctor, a symptom, or a clinic’s opening hours. Chances are you did it on your phone, maybe from a waiting room, a car, or your couch late at night. Patients now expect healthcare information to be available in their pocket, and they expect it to work without any effort. That is why responsive medical website design is no longer a nice extra. It is a ba...
Originally published on the CVFit blog.
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