t4mer@notebook

// Archive

Everything, in order.

A compact chronology. Filter by year or by the kind of note.

August 2026

  1. 20What happens technically when you buy an eSIM?
  2. 16Running SRS as a media server without treating it like magic
  3. 16Start here
  4. 16Things CodeIgniter taught me before Laravel
  5. 16What exactly is Qt? A web developer's mental model
  6. 15Why I'm comfortable saying “I don't know yet”
  7. 14The framework is usually not the hard part
  8. 13Things I understand differently after 10+ years of software development
  9. 12CMakeLists.txt is a map of targets, not Composer
  10. 12TIL: aka.ms is actually a Microsoft domain
  11. 11Discovering that my Qt UI is QML rather than Widgets
  12. 11main.cpp is not index.php
  13. 10Qt installation taking much longer than expected
  14. 10TIL: QML describes the UI tree. C++ still runs the process.
  15. 09TIL: Qt is the toolkit. C++ is the language.
  16. 08A SQL developer tries to understand vector databases
  17. 07TIL: what CMake actually does
  18. 02PHP recycles the process. C++ does not.
  19. 01Why I'm learning C++ after more than a decade of web development

July 2026

  1. 24RabbitMQ redelivered a message I thought I had handled
  2. 23TIL: what idempotent actually means
  3. 22Understanding RabbitMQ after years of using Laravel queues
  4. 01TIL: what an HTTP ETag is

June 2026

  1. 18HTTP 421 and the Host header I should not have set
  2. 18HTTP 421 Misdirected Request caused by an incorrect Host header

May 2026

  1. 20Laravel authentication error returning HTML instead of JSON
  2. 09API works in Postman but fails in Laravel
  3. 09Why Postman and Laravel can send “the same request” and get different results
  4. 08TIL: Accept and Content-Type are different

April 2026

  1. 15Different PHP versions between CLI and the web server
  2. 02How a Laravel request actually travels through Nginx → PHP-FPM → Laravel
  3. 02Nginx/PHP-FPM 502 that looked like Laravel
  4. 01TIL: what PHP-FPM actually does

March 2026

  1. 12Redis data appears stale
  2. 11How I think about Redis caching in Laravel applications
  3. 10TIL: Redis isn't just a cache

February 2026

  1. 14Notes on working remotely between time zones

January 2026

  1. 20TIL: Docker containers aren't virtual machines