Resources, tips, and solutions we hope other devs will find when needed.
On command line using alias can save a few seconds typing. Do that a billion times then that’s a few billion seconds saved. Devs know what I’m talking about. Alias is a tool I wish I had learned as soon as I learned any command line stuff, how many brief moments ( keystrokes ) I […]
February 17, 2024
There are numerous log viewing and management tools available for Windows, which can help you parse and understand your logs more effectively. Here are a few options: These tools can handle log files of various formats and sizes. Some also support tailing logs in real time, color coding, filtering and alerting – all of which […]
August 3, 2023
Make your local project webhook endpoints respond like a production endpoint with ‘tunneling’. Similar to Ngrok, you can use expose.dev aka SharedWithExpose on you dev machine. Once installed just go to your sites main directory in the command line ( of course this must be running in a server environment ) , then simply use […]
April 9, 2023
Debugging with var_dump ( or dd in laravel ) can get us what we need to know most of the time, however it means we need to edit the files ( which can cause unneeded version updates in VCS repositories ) and is often like chasing a worm through the soil, it just gets a […]
December 1, 2022
I found the developer experience to be a bit cumbersome, so want to write a summary in case it might help someone. We won’t cover any code because that’s already in docs. This is not a typical tutorial. This is more of a birds eye view of what to do. This overview is for custom […]
May 30, 2022