Mike Scott ceilidhboy

How to Use the Forked Pest for Git Worktree / Symlinked Vendor Support

Symptoms

If you're running Pest tests in a git worktree and seeing failures like:

A facade root has not been set.
Call to undefined method ...::get() (or post(), put(), etc.)
Vite manifest not found at: .../develop/public/build/manifest.json
Test class names prefixed with the filesystem path instead of Tests\ (e.g. P\Home\user\...\tests\Feature\...)

`git safe-rebase` alias

A git alias that checks whether it's safe to rebase your current branch onto a target branch, without actually running the rebase.

What problem does this solve?

The most common workflow mistake is rebasing onto your local master when it's stale — either because you forgot to pull, or because someone else pushed in the few seconds since you did. This leaves you in a state where git status says:

Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged,

The composer run dev command was added in Laravel 11.28 but it doesn't get added automatically to projects that were created with an earlier Laravel version and then upgraded beyond 11.28.

To add the command, edit composer.json and add the following to the "scripts" section after the last script entry:

,
        "dev": [
            "Composer\\Config::disableProcessTimeout",
 "npx concurrently -c \"#93c5fd,#c4b5fd,#fb7185,#fdba74\" \"php artisan serve\" \"php artisan queue:listen --tries=1 --timeout=0\" \"php artisan pail --timeout=0\" \"npm run dev\" --names=server,queue,logs,vite --kill-others"

Add the following block before the existing server block, in the nginx configuration, where domain-name.com is the domain of the website:

server {
        server_name www.domain-name.com;
        return 301 $scheme://domain-name.com$request_uri;
}

Doing a simple CONST declaration in config files can cause errors when enabling caching in Laravel. The config file appears to be loaded more than once and the second time causes an error because the constant is already defined.

The safe way to do it is to use the old syntax and only try to define the constant if it has not already been defined, as the following example shows:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade;

How to upload files, e.g. MySQL database export

In a terminal, install gdown with pip install gdown
Upload the file you want to send to the server to Google drive
Copy the "anyone with link" share link for the file
Paste it into notepad and copy the file ID from the link
cd to the directory you want the file to go (or use the -O <path> option with gdown)
Download the file with ~/.local/bin/gdown

	#!/bin/bash
	# by Mike Scott 18-Apr-26

	COMPROMISED_AXIOS="1.14.1"
	COMPROMISED_AXIOS_OLD="0.30.4"
	COMPROMISED_PLAIN_CRYPTO="4.2.1"

	RED='\033[0;31m'
	GREEN='\033[0;32m'
	AMBER='\033[0;33m'

	# Copyright (c) 2009 rupa deadwyler. Licensed under the WTFPL license, Version 2

	# maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use
	#
	# INSTALL:
	# * put something like this in your .bashrc/.zshrc:
	# . /path/to/z.sh
	# * cd around for a while to build up the db
	# * PROFIT!!
	# * optionally:

	<?php

	namespace App\Console\Commands\Log;

	use Illuminate\Console\Command;

	class ClearLogFile extends Command
	{
	protected $signature = 'log:clear';