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A Log of Coding Solutions

Can’t use AdminerNeo on Mac

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Problem

I was having a similar issue as this person on the Local Community forum. Clicking the link of “Open AdminerNeo” did nothing and the logs showed “Unhandled Rejection”.

Solution

Apparently Local has a preferred PHP version which is currently
PHP—8.2.29. I did some spring cleaning and removed that unknowingly required version of PHP. Restoring that version resolved my issue. Unfortunately, I can’t reply to that locked forum post.

Run Long Jobs in Background on Linux

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To run long running jobs on linux and not have to be logged in, do the following:

1. Start a new screen session

screen -L -S longjob

2. Run your long-running command

This will allow you to see the output of the command while it’s also written to a log file

your-command --with --args |& tee -a ~/longjob.log

3. Detach and leave it running

Ctrl + A then D

4. Log out safely

exit

5. Reattach later

screen -r longjob

6. When you’re done

Ctrl + D

Spam Filters for Smarter Spam Tactics

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Problem

Backscatter “bounce” emails are landing in the inbox—legitimate Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) from Google’s Mailer-Daemon with “Address not found.” The attached/original shows spam that spoofed your address and tried sending to a non-existent recipient (e.g., [email protected]). Because the spammer forged your envelope sender, the receiving server rejected the message and sent the failure notice back to you.

Solution

These DSNs are real system reports, not the spam itself—and the likely cause is not that your email is compromised, but that someone spoofed your address.

Don’t mark these DSNs as spam; doing so can pollute spam training and may hide bounce reports you actually need. Instead, auto-handle only the unwanted DSNs tied to that bogus recipient with a precise Gmail filter:

from:[email protected] ("X-Failed-Recipients: <BOGUS-ADDRESS>" OR "Your message wasn't delivered to <BOGUS-ADDRESS>")

Replace <BOGUS-ADDRESS> with the invalid recipient you’re seeing, then create the filter and choose Skip the Inbox (Archive) or Delete. This keeps your inbox clean, preserves accurate spam training, and ensures legitimate bounce messages still surface—while recognizing that spoofing (not account compromise) is the root cause.

Class “Some/Namespace/App.php” not found (only on server)

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The Problem

Everything works fine on your Mac OS setup, but for some reason, on your Linux server you get the error below. All file names look correct, case sensitive and all.

Class "Some/Namespace/App.php" not found.

The Solution

When you rename a file on Mac and it’s just changing the case, git won’t pick it up. So while you think it’s renamed on the server, it may not be! When renaming a file and it’s just changing the case, use:

git mv app.php App.php

Thisisunsafe

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Problem

Sometimes you need to run https sites locally and you can’t get by Chrome’s warning of NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID. Google has removed the link to just bypass this warning recently.

Solution

While this is more of a workaround than a solution (you should resolve the invalid cert), you can get by Chrome’s security warning by typing “thisisunsafe”. Don’t type it in the address bar, just have the window in focus. You won’t see what you’re typing, but when you finish typing the browser window will reload and display the site.

Workaround to WordPress Custom HTML block error

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Problem

Sometimes you just want to write part of an HTML code block to maybe wrap the next block in. Or some small part of HTML that may not make sense to the editor. It doesn’t matter though. The block editor will throw an error like “This block contains unexpected or invalid content”. Irritating.

Solution

One solution is to create a simple shortcode and return the html you want to write out. Shortcodes let you return whatever HTML you want and the block editor won’t know about it.