Brent offers scientific arguments why a light color scheme is better. Personally, since I started using a light color scheme a few years back, I've sticked to it and never turned back.
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Starting a side project is easy. Actually finish it is hard. Hugo Zap offers some good tips on how to properly finish a side project.
Read more [hugozap.com]
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Nikita Prokopov shares some good insights on why having a good monitor is important. MacOS users: your fonts will look much better with font smoothing turned off.
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If you’ve ever found yourself asking any of these questions and happen to use VSCode, maybe the new Inline Parameters extension will help you out!
Read more [liamhammett.com]
Dancing artisan Christoph Rumpel released a new video series on how to make PhpStorm look pretty and get the most out of it.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.
– stefanbauer.me - submitted by Stefan Bauer
This article is the result of my 8 years of experience with PhpStorm and my best settings that make you a faster developer and let you focus more on the important things.
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After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
Some words of wisdom by David Hemphill
Don't be upset you didn't finish the big feature early in the week. Be glad you figured out what you need to do to finish it in the next few days.
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Mohammed Said wrote some thoughts on FOMO that resonate with me.
It's a constant pressure on me, and I can imagine how hard it can be on people newly joining the career. In my early days it wasn't that bad, things weren't moving that fast, but nowadays it's crazy.
Read more [themsaid.com]
Pro-tip: set custom prefixes for your local, staging and production environments using the Tab ReTitle Chrome extension ?
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) July 15, 2019
Never accidentally debug the wrong tab again! https://t.co/hRfaKesKwL pic.twitter.com/DU1llvdpQd
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? Desktop always a mess? This little script tells macOS to not render desktop icons at all, so ~/Desktop is just another folder and your wallpaper is always unobstructed. pic.twitter.com/GjsmbrZ4c4
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) July 15, 2019
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Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.
Read more [www.bram.us]
Personally, when I want to work on something I just turn off all notification on my Mac.
Probably reached for the phone. Turned off the alarm. Glanced at the time. Scrolled through the Slack notifications. Went through the emails. You will likely continue doing it throughout the day, approximately 2,617 more times, according to some studies. We all do it, and despite all the virtues of digital minimalism, completely giving up those habits is extreme and, arguably, unnecessary. Yet we live in a culture obsessed with productivity and these harmless distractions are wreaking havoc on it.
Read more [blog.nuclino.com]
A short and sweet article by my colleague Seb.
I was always adding features because I’d expect other people to expect them. It’s a trap! You’re not making people happier by guessing what they might need. You’re not doing anyone a disservice by building things for yourself.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Zander Nethercutt provides some great insights in the mechanisms in play that can lead to burnout.
When we see long weekends and think “work before play,” when we see Friday nights and think “sleep before clubs,” when we see escalators as accelerators and not opportunities to “just take a second,” we’re nothing more than hyperrational prisoners making a decision that would be inaccurately characterized as a dilemma because the answer is obvious.
Read more [medium.com]
I've been using PhpStorm for quite some time now, but never took the effort to fix a few minor annoyances I had with it. Getting rid of the default comment for new PHP files First up, when creating a new PHP file or class you PhpStorm will add this comment block like this by default: /** * Created…
Benjamin Eberlei wrote a post on why and how he got rid of Slack in his company.
We have moved away from Slack at Tideways over the last three months, because I found Slack is already annoying, even with just a four person team (plus the occasional freelancer). For me, it disrupts deep work phases and knowledge lost in the depth of chat history.
Read more [beberlei.de]
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using. IDE I mainly program PHP. Mostly I develop in PhpStorm. Here's a…
