maker://hans.anderson

I am a creator. I build websites/apps as a full-stack-senior-web-application-devops-engineer-blah-blah-you-name-it; I produce audio short stories; I create fun lego photos and animated videos; I make disc golf stats.

I am the creator of the tech-fantasy and fiction-crime podcasts series Dist1nc7ive Stories, and produce other audio short stories.

I'm a freelance full stack web geek, and I blog about it, including my favorite toys of late: automation with Playwright/Puppeteer, PHP Goutte, and I leave myself notes-to-self to remember.

I am a co-founder of StatMando, a disc golf side-project that helped revolutionize stats in disc golf.

I used to run goofiness.com, and currently have Mockumentary.com, HuckfaceDG and a few other, um, interesting side projects.

fullstack://

PHP framework experience includes Laravel, Yii, Symfony, WordPress, CodeIgniter, and custom PHP projects.

Have an old legacy PHP site that needs to be carefully updated? I have experience working with older codebases, updating both the code, and the systems they run on, carefully, while maintaining the important system. I've worked with Apache, Nginx, Internet Information Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MS-SQL.

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Disc golf stats. In early 2021, a few of us were on twitter, bemoaning the lack of stats in disc golf. We decided to try to help. We met, we planned, we built. The result: StatMando.

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I'm the creator of the tech-fantasy and fiction-crime podcasts series Distinctive Stories.

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September 17, 2025

Drill: Guess the Binary Number

I wanted to be able to read binary numbers better, mostly 0-255, because it is sometimes used in networking and because it's interesting to me right now. So, here's a little practice system:...

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September 16, 2025

Drill: Guess the Hex Number

I wanted to be able to read hex numbers better, mostly 0-255, because it is sometimes used in networking and because it's interesting to me right now. So, here's a little practice system: Reveal...

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September 16, 2025

Names in OSI Model

Application Layer: Data Transport Layer: Segment Network Layer: Packet Link/Physical Layer: Frame

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September 13, 2025

Man-in-the-Middle (mitm) Proxy

This thing is fantastic: Man in the Middle Proxy. It focuses a little higher in the network stack than tools like Wireshark and gives you insight about the traffic to and from your computer. It can...

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September 12, 2025

Subnetting

Using that cheatsheet, solve for: Subnetting practice: https://subnetipv4.com/ CIDR Calculator: https://cidr.xyz/ Useful Linux app: (Might need sudo apt update && sudo apt...



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        September 11, 2025
    

    
        MySQL - Check Collation and Charset
    

    
    How to check collation and charset in mysql.









utf8mb4_general_ci


"ci" = case-insensitive.
"A" = "a".
"café" = "cafe" (accent-insensitive).


utf8mb4_bin


“bin” = binary.
"A" ≠ "a"....

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        July 11, 2025
    

    
        How to Make a Typed PHP Array or Collection
    

    
    So, one thing a lot of people want that PHP doesn't natively support is typed arrays.  In other languages you can say "I want an array of integers" or "I want an array of strings" or "I want this to...

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        July 11, 2025
    

    
        Make Copying to the Clipboard From the Terminal in Mac and Linux Smoother
    

    
    I use both Mac and Linux. I'm used to copying things to my clipboard from a terminal using pbcopy, so this helper makes it easier because I don't have to remember the linux flavor of the command....

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        July 11, 2025
    

    
        Objects That: Have State vs Do Work
    

    
    I'm self taught at developing.  Been at it for a long time, but I've missed some of the pivots the world of developers - PHP specifically - have done, and when classes were introduced back in PHP 4,...

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        July 10, 2025
    

    
        PHP - How to Turn an Array into a PDO-Safe IN Query
    

    
    In code using legacy PDO-style statements, if you need to do something like an "IN" query using user-supplied data, you're in for danger if you don't parameterize them.  PDO can handle the security...

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        July 1, 2025
    

    
        MySQL - How to Show Data and Index Size in your Tables
    

    
    How to show data and index size in your mysql tables.

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        June 12, 2025
    

    
        Why Change to AWS Amplify?
    

    
    I had been running this blog on AWS S3. You can do some weird gyrations when you set up a bucket a specific way and it will let you serve a static website really easily. I used a WP static plugin for...

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