protip - Gabor Javorszky

Use gci in Goland as a file watcher

gci is an amazing tool. It takes the guesswork out of organising your go file’s imports, and the command line version works as expected. Here's how to set it up in Goland.

terminal

Customize your ZSH prompt with this one weird trick!

I like having the last commit's sha in the command line. Gives me instant access to the info. I'll walk you through how I made zsh to show it to me.

ssl

Get Firefox to trust your self signed certificates

How to get Firefox to trust all self signed certificates you use locally to serve your development sites over https and not complain about them.

laravel

Updating Laravel Valet: sorry, you’re not allowed to preserve environment

Laravel valet might tell you that you are not allowed to preserve the environment. This article details what that means, why that happens, and how to fix it.

wordpress

Let’s get salty!

Because I’m on a roll today, so far I’ve broken 4 things today, including wp-cli, and Local by Flywheel. However I want to talk about what salts are, and why they are important, and how I found out about them. The below tweet, and its thread, has all

freelancing

Healthy Freelancing

How do you do freelancing in a healthy way? Boundaries, Time, Money, Responsibilities.

wordpress

It’s 2018, and it’s totally possible to contribute to WordPress without touching svn

I work with WordPres a lot. It takes up a solid 12 hours of my day pretty much each day (minus weekends, because, you know, burnout). I’m also fairly vocal about not being the greatest fan of it. It’s aged, does things weirdly, but it works. Reliably. Shout

workflow

My local development environment

There are so many tools to do local development, no wonder folks are lost. I’ve mostly tried them all with the notable exception of Docker. Here’s what I ended up with on a mostly permanent basis: Server, database, php, wp-cli I develop on a Mac. This means I

advanced

You don't need web sites to base64 decode things. Or to format JSON

Instead of using free sites to do encoding / decoding / formatting of data, you could be using the command line. Here's an example of base64 decoding and pretty formatting json.