....Creating Chaos Since 1981!
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I Hate Subscriptions Part 1 Espresso Review
So I am not a fan of the subscription model. If I am paying money for something, I want to own it. I understand the appeal for the subscription model, especially with the development houses, but I want the option to just buy it once and that be it! So I am going to be writing some posts over the next year where I will be reviewing some of my favorite alternatives to popular subscription services. …
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My Resume Workflow
I started writing my Resume in Markdown a while ago. I started out just using Pandoc to convert it to pdf. Overtime, I started my own little build process going. I use rake. …
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Using Caddy to Develop RoR
Working on a few projects in rails and I wanted to do something where I could load the site in the browser with a tld and an ssl certificate like people. So going to https://conflict.dev would take me to my local runing dev server for my conflict app. And if I had other things I was working on at the same time, I wanted them to also be able to be loaded in the same way. Oh, and I need them to have ssl certificates so I can test with that as well! …
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Thoughts on Rails Freeze
So I saw a post about a Rails function freeze that caught my attention. I would like to speak on it a bit. So basically, for the uninitiated, The freeze method lets you set an object in rails to be immuttable. …
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Updating an Old Python Script
I wrote a script years ago that let me spin up a WordPress instance, complete with vhost file. I wrote it in python and it was , at least for me a pretty impressive feat! Recently, I’ve been going over some of my old code and giving them a bit of a dust off. I’ve made a few changs to the code that I feel makes marked improvements on it…albiet small! …
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Arc Wins The Browser Wars
I have seen a lot of stuff in the new browser Arc this past year. It’s supposedly a new take on the browser. It only works on the Mac for now and as I was curious, I decided to give it a try. I installed it and after going through it’s wizard, it got stuck and would not let me actually use it as a browser. Web searches and reinstalls have been to no avail! Curious still, I did a bit of a deep dive on the browser and found that it lacks the WebInspector or any kind of Dev Tools. I have noticed that Chrome really gets bogged down with tabs and even Firefox feels a bit stale. I did use Opera for a bit and later gave Vivaldi a try. Several sources seem to suggest that Vivaldi is still a great choice for the power user, so I decided to give it another go. So glad I did!! …
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A Return to Rails
So I have been coding in PHP for a pretty long time. Lately I have been feeling a bit burned out…and I was not sure what was the cause. I started to rewrite a project I had started on in Symfony using Rails and the source of my burn out became clear! So I have been throwing my self back into Rails and I am enjoying it very much! Stay tuned for more thoughts on my return to Rails as I dive deeper! …
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Exif Tool
So I still own and use a iPod. I use gtkpod to manage it. I ran into an issue though, that when I pull all my songs off the iPod with gtkpod, I get all the songs just dumped in my music folder with no organization at all. I like my songs in Album folders under Artist folders. There is a neat little trick that I thought I’d share on how to get it done. …
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Why I Use Vim
So, why do I use VIM? I had a great example of this just today and I thought I’d share!! …
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Using Docker with PHP Composer
So in this installment, I will be talking about how to use PHP/Composer with Docker. I am currently having to work with a Mac for a contract. I could use homebrew and get PHP setup on the Mac, but I am having to deal with multiple versions of PHP and frankly, I really do not want to have to deal with PHP on a machine that is not really mine. I really do not even have to run php locally, I am using a dev docker container to serve up the site locally. So I really just need to be able to run Docker. It’s not a very difficult proprosal. …