It Started With a Bug When I was building VMMS — a voucher management system MySQL. Clean queries. Fast results. Then I deployed to a server running MariaDB. Half my charts broke. I had written date queries like this all over the codebase: // This breaks on MariaDB DB::table('voucher_transactions') ->selectRaw('MONTHNAME(created_at) as month, COUNT(*) as total') ->groupByRaw('MONTH(crea
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I’ve been diving into Solana development for the past 10+ days as part of 100DaysOfSolana. Today, I successfully moved my scripts into the browser to build a functional Devnet Dashboard. It was a great exercise in handling RPC providers and managing BigInt data for UI display. Major shoutout to Major League Hacking for the challenge. Looking forward to the next arc!
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