AI is finally here to take our jobs :)

Got Claude Code do to a bit of design work to the site. Still running the same old backend PHP but some newer HTML/CSS. It makes updating old code so much more accessible, hopefully I will still be running the same old crusty backend in 2050.

I used this markdown file https://getdesign.md/ibm/design-md to ask Claude to rewrite the theme.

It's not really a massive improvement at this stage, but I didn't have to write any code, so that is a plus...

I should ask it to start writing my blog posts, might be more interesting.

EDIT: I ran out of tokens now too :(

Upgrading the OS this site (and a few others including https://www.vogonswiki.com) runs on was one of my goals for the Christmas break this year.

Unfortunately there is a lot of old scripts running on it; making it difficult to move past PHP 7.0.

I've finally fixed a lot, most were pretty easy (including this site), mediawiki was the worst so far.

• Bluetrait Blog now works on PHP 8.2!


• Media Wiki upgraded (ish, still a super old version, extension hell there)


• The Board (old recipe tracking system)

I've been able to switch over to PHP 7.3 now which is great. Hopefully I can get to 7.4 this year?

Also had to rebuild the raspberry pi zero running our gate recently. That was a pain. The SD card died so I replaced that and upgraded to Raspbian/Debian 12, that broke all the GPIO libraries I was using :/

Isn't upgrading fun? Actually I'm pretty happy how well things are working considering I ignore them for years at a time.

Next I'm actually thinking of upgrading this blog to replace the theme with something new, although not sure yet.

I just wrote a DNS testing tool. :)

http://auditdns.net

About time is all I can say!

Still needs some work but yeah it works :D

Responsive too.

I've been working on it for the last few months and it is now pretty awesome.

I've never found a password manager that I like (the story of my life)!

I've never been a fan of hosting my personal data with other companies.

So I spent two days writing my own.

Mr Password is awesome. It does almost everything a Password Manager should do. I'm selling it cheap on codecanyon and once purchased you get free upgrades and access to the code.

Features include:

• Unlimited number of custom fields per password.


• Active Directory Authentication Support


• Multiple Users (with 2 permission levels, User and Administrator)


• Security Logging


• Account lock down after 5 failed logins


• MySQL Database


• Hashed (with SHA ) Account Passwords


• Password Generator


• Password Categories


• Sharing Categories


• HTTPs/SSL Supported

Go get it, only $US8-10 (depending on the way you purchase it).

Link: http://codecanyon.net/item/password-manager/2145518

Demo

URL : http://www.onlinecompanyportal.com/mrp/

Username: admin

Password: 1234

Invoicing is just about complete! There are two more things that are not finished yet, PDF invoices and emailing the invoicing. Both will be pretty easy.

There were a few complex SQL queries to handle the tax calculations (and to have the total on the view all invoices page).

Here is what it looks like (click to see full size).

I am in the process of writing in invoicing support for IPManager (need to change the name of this app!). I've looked at Xero and Saasu but I'd still need to work out their API, and I don't like the idea of companies having access to my data, so I'm doing it myself :)

To do it nicely I need to use a bunch of JQuery so that you can easily add new line items on the fly (and calculate tax etc).

I've got it working just the way I want it, using a very long JQuery command! 

Here are a couple of screen shots:

And here is the basic design that the clients will see:

I am pretty happy with it so far, lots of work to go though.

This theme will be out for version 2.6 (no time frame for this release yet).

New version of Bluetrait Money is finally out!

You can purchase it from here:

codecanyon.net/item/bluetrait-money/458252