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Old orange segment screen displaying a lot of numbers in a table.

When base64 encoding goes wrong

Base64 encoding is easy, except when different commands automatically add unexpected values to the thing you want to encode.

Photo of a picnic. Woman is sitting on a blanket, a water bottle rests on the ground, she's writing a signature on a phone.

Back to signing git commits with GPG

Decided to move back to GPG for commit signing from SSH. Here are the steps I took and why I took them.

A woman with very curly hair that's covering her face. Her smile shines through.

Bash curly braces for superpowers!

Bash curly braces are super powerful. You can use them as in-situ loops for expansion to reduce repetitive commands.

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.

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.