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White paper on a wooden table with three signatures with a fountain pen.

Sign my commits, git!

How to configure git to sign commits with ssh, how to verify them locally, and how to make sure GitHub also verifies the commits with that key.

Photo of an old Macintosh PageMaker manual.

Please read the manual!

Reading manuals that come with your devices is good for your health and will boost your confidence by some amount. At least when it comes to operating them. You might find surprising info there!

What part of your app is your app?

What part of your app is your app?

Your entire app is not your entire app. Here's how I think about the different parts of an app, and how to separate the core from the accessories.

A picture of a few illustrations of imaginary user interfaces and the flows between them.

On interfaces and composition

Abstractions are good. Golang has interfaces. The article talks about how to use interfaces to make code more maintainable and flexible.

A rack of bowling shoes in order.

Work in a team? Have 4 groups of imports in your go files

Do you want to organise your Go imports into 4 groups instead of 3? Here's how you can do it with a new version of gci and golangci-lint

Integrate Stripe dashboard from your site

Integrate Stripe dashboard from your site

Stripe's customer portal is awesome, but you need to give them a link to click on to get there. This walks you through what you need to make that happen.

Golang style linters, multiline statements, and blocks with whitespace

Golang style linters, multiline statements, and blocks with whitespace

The golang ci lint linters whitespace, lll, and wsl can put you in a cycle of warnings about your code quality. By adding a comment to the right place you can appease all three.

Use gci in Goland as a file watcher

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.

Customize your ZSH prompt with this one weird trick!

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.

Get Firefox to trust your self signed certificates

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.

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

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.

Let’s get salty!

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

Healthy Freelancing

Healthy Freelancing

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

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

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

My local development environment

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

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

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.