It’s not a good way to store your password in the code. This is well known fact, and in multiple occasion people get hacked because they shared their code (and passwords) accidentally with others.

There are plenty of bots, just browsing github fot lost AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or GCE credentials. I’m going to show you, how to pass your AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY to PHP.

I do write a lot of frontend, despite fact that I’m born to be backend guy. Long story short - we do have a lot of inline editing features especially elements like dates are pretty painful. HTML5 Introduced input type=date which is good enough to cover most of the cases, and we no longer need ugly and slow .datepicker() component from jQuery od 3rd party suppliers.

So if you do have edit you can just use <input type="date" value="yyyy-mm-dd"> field, and nice calendar will pop up. But we are looking for inline solution.

As each programmer by nature I’m lazy. I try to accomplish as much as possible in minimum effort.

So whenever I use PHP to fetch something I’m using file_get_contents to make queries, and pull data from other services. So basically my favourite snippet is this guy here:

Recently I moved my blog from Wordpress to Hugo , and that involved a lot of content fixing. One of the problems was that during the export not all HTML code was correctly transferred to markup. So I needed fix (replace) all pending <a href="https://spidersoft.com.au">spidersoft</a> to [spidersoft](https://spidersoft.com.au). What we need is just 2 simple regular expressions. One to find links <a.*?href="(.+?)".*?>(.+?)</a> Second one to replace them in reverse order [$2]($1)

I have really “old” AMI Linux instances, and I need to go with more recent MySQL versions.