How to make MySQL work in your GitHub Actions

There are a ton of tutorials out there how to make MySQL service work inside your Ubuntu environment in GitHub Actions. But all of them returned “Failed to initialize, mysql service is unhealthy.” error for me. Let’s fix that.

Str::wrap() macro in Laravel

While working on my personal project that is using Laravel, I was in need to write a query with a LIKE clause that searches with quotes at the beginning and end of the generated string.

How to organize custom code for plugins & themes

You have lots of plugins, and even a theme. You are brave and adventurous – and you write (or copy-paste) lots of snippets to modify their default behavior. Now you have a custom code all over the place and even in your theme functions.php.
Is there a better way to fix that mess?