The ABS runs the Census every five years and it’s genuinely one of the best datasets in the country, but actually getting anything useful out of it is painful. Everything’s buried in DataPacks — hundreds of CSVs with column codes like G17C and Tot_P_P (you need a separate metadata workbook just to work out what […]
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If you’ve worked in web development or DevOps for any length of time, you’ve accumulated a collection of bookmarked online tools. JWT.io for decoding tokens. Various JSON formatters. Base64 decoders. YAML validators. URL parsers. The list goes on. I found myself constantly jumping between these tools, often not even remembering which bookmark was which, and […]
After Google increased their map prices significantly (by about 100x in my case) I had to set about finding alternatives. It turned out the DIY approach was far easier than I expected and is saving thousands of dollars every month. The end result we came up with looks professional with most people not noticing any […]
The #1 result in Google for stripping characters out of strings in PHP is awful and uses the deprecated ereg_replace function so lets make a new search result using preg_replace which is much better, faster and it is fully supported in PHP 5 and 7. Allow only alpha-numeric: Only numeric: Alpha-numeric with whitespace: The ^ […]