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This twitter account automatically tweets when the British Geological Survey has detected seismic activity.

The code is published on github.

The data is taken from the BGS Recent UK earthquakes feed.

It was put together by @meigwilym.

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I had real trouble connecting my Raspberry Pis (v3 Model Bs) to a WPA Enterprise network.

Here's what I did to get it to work.

For this example, my wifi network name is "WiFi Network", usernames and passwords have also been swapped out. The Wifi Country is GB.

Wifi

Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf with the following (using your "real" password):

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Use array functions rather than loops for JSON objects

Take this array of tag objects for example.

const tags = [
	{
		name: 'Studio',
		id: 'studio',
 url: '/tags/studio'

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Pob llythyren acenog yn y Gymraeg.

Mae'r degol, hex a named ar gyfer dogfennau html.

Llythyren	Côd	Disgrifiad	Decimal	Hex	Named
Â	U+00C2	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX	Â	Â	Â
â	U+00E2	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX	â	â	â
Ê	U+00CA	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX	Ê	Ê	Ê
ê	U+00EA	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX	ê	ê	ê

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Using Adminator in Laravel

Adminator is not that friendly to be dropped in a Laravel project. Here's what I did to get the CSS and fonts working.

Using Laravel 5.6 and Adminator

• Download the zip https://github.com/puikinsh/Adminator-admin-dashboard/archive/master.zip
• Copy contents of src/assets into resources/assets/sass
• Copy src/static to resources
• Rename resources/assets/sass/index.scss to adminator.scss

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<?php
$phpversionok = false;
if(PHP_VERSION_ID >= 70103) {
    $phpversionok = true;
}

$exts = ['openssl', 'pdo', 'mbstring', 'tokenizer', 'xml', 'ctype', 'json'];
$extsNotloaded = [];

foreach($exts as $i => $extension) {

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server {

  # certbot uses this to verify the SSL request
  location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
    default_type "text/plain";
    root /var/www/letsencrypt;
  }
}

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<?php
// routes/console.php

// quickly create an user via the command line
Artisan::command('user:create', function () {
    $name = $this->ask('Name?');
    $email = $this->ask('Email?');
    $pwd = $this->ask('Password?');
    // $pwd = $this->secret('Password?'); // or use secret() to hide the password being inputted
    \DB::table('users')->insert([

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#!/bin/bash

# setup an environment for laravel on Red Hat 7.3
#  Nginx
#  PHP 7.1
#  optional MySQL 5.7 or PostgreSQL 9.6
#  Composer
#  Supervisor

# check for root user

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vagrantfile:
    target: local
    vm:
        provider:
            local:
                box: puphpet/centos7-x64
                box_url: puphpet/centos7-x64
                box_version: '0'
                chosen_virtualizer: virtualbox
                virtualizers: