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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October 23, 2026

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

In high school, I read in some book about the most famous and important rock and roll songs. The top one was Stairway to Heaven. Having grown up in a small Montana town that didn't have a true rock...

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September 12, 2026

Jambalaya – Hank Williams

Like many of the songs on my life's soundtrack, my Dad used to sing this one. I remember all the campfires and sing-alongs we had growing up. This was one of my favorites. But it's most memorable to...

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August 13, 2026

Changing a bluetooth device alias in Linux

I have two external bluetooth keyboards. One for at home and one at my office at my gf's. They are the same keyboard. I wanted to rename them to distinguish on my Ubuntu laptop. I struggled to edit...

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August 10, 2026

Jesse – Carly Simon

This is the first soundtrack I wanted to write. I randomly heard this song recently and thought about the era when it was somewhat popular in the world, and very popular in my home. My brother and I...

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January 12, 2026

Seconds

So: 1 second (s) = 1,000 milliseconds (ms) 1 second (s) = = 1,000,000 microseconds (μs) But, I want to work these into my day-to-day more, eg: "Sure, but give me a hectosecond." "He ran that...

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January 8, 2026

PHP MySQL Heredoc to Test on Command Line

I recently needed to test a MySQL connection in a k8s pod without an editor installed and running as a non-privileged user without installation rights on a read-only filesystem. This snippet helped...

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November 30, 2025

How to Change Keyboard Layouts (Ubuntu 24.04 Wayland)

I have my wierd Ubuntu laptop keyboard mapped the way I want it, and bought a new bluetooth, ergonomic, portable keyboard whose mappings are also weird and hosed. I couldn't get them to play...

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November 30, 2025

How to Turn Off Auto-Maximize in Ubuntu

For some reason, I hate maximized windows. I like them to be "nearly maximized". Don't get me started about "Full Screen". Ick. I'm an old-timey Alt-Tab guy so going full screen just...

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September 25, 2025

.vimrc File Backup

There is no rhyme or reason to the structure, just a pile of settings. This has changed a lot since I moved to VSCode as my IDE; I removed a lot of the IDE-ish functionality I used to have with...

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September 23, 2025

Binary Trees

EXCELLENT article on b-trees, with animations that make it very easy to understand: https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes Also a good video:...

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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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