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Chris Morrell

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Philadelphia father of two. Mostly talking about PHP/Laravel/React on here. He/him. On the web @ https://cmorrell.com Podcasting @ https://overengineered.fm/ On mastodon @ https://rtsn.dev/@chris Formerly @ https://twitter.com/inxilpro

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 5h

I've seen some of those natural wood ones on Etsy for $200 and I'm very suspicious of how someone could make that and get it to me for that amount of money.

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 8h

Anyone have a cat scratching post that they like that doesn't look like absolute garbage?

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 1d

I haven’t tried the Max, but I’ve tried the Bose ones everyone recommended back in the day, and a pair of beats ones, and the AirPods Pro 2, and a handful of others over the years, and would start feeling almost nauseous within 30-60s.

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 1d

I’m so excited.

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 1d

My vent hood is blasting, and my pan is sizzling, and my convection oven is on high, and I’m just listening to a podcast in peace.

Incredible.

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 1d

OK, the AirPods Pro 3 are the first noise-cancelling headphones that don’t immediately give me a massive headache. And so, in 2025, I get to discover noise cancellation for the first time…

You guys. It’s amazing! You all just got to live like this for years?

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 1d

Oh this is from the AWS console.

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 1d

It's kinda wild what a little DB tuning can do…

On the 6th we launched a new feature that resulted in 100,000's of new DB queries. And because of a single missing index and a few sub-optimal queries, that caused a huge spike in load.

We added the index and fixed the queries, and voila!

Graph showing load vs. bin log usage: on 10/6 a spike in bin log usage triggered a huge spike in load. On 10/7 and 10/8, similar spikes had no noticeable affect on load.

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Bogdan Kharchenko @bogdankharchenko.com · 1d

See ya'll tonight!

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 2d

I think there should be a .well-known standard for this…

[domain]/.well-known/hard-lessons-learned.md

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 2d

Sort of, but UUIDs come with costs, too. And being able to look at an ID and immediately know “this is from before we migrated” is *really* useful.

We migrated to Laravel ten years ago, and I still use “is the ID below 500K” as a debugging heuristic to this day.

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 2d

This is a technique I've used a bunch of times in the past, and it occurred to me that I've never heard anyone else talk about it, so I thought I'd share…

Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 2d

We just moved 1.5M records from a legacy system, so we set the auto-increment value on the new table to 2M. It's just so nice to know that ids >= 2M are new, and < 2M are imported. It also lets us scope certain queries during migration to above or below that threshold depending. It's *so* useful.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 2d

If you're migrating data from an old system to a new one, and using a new table for the new data, set the auto-increment ID of the new table to be a round number that's higher than the highest ID in the old table. Some day you'll appreciate it.

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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 2d

Just got tickets for Wicked for Good 🎉