All the hardware and software used at Laracasts
Here’s an exhaustive list of all the tools Jeffrey Way uses in his daily workflow at Laracasts.
Read more [laracasts.com]
How to Train Your Keyboard
– tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
We are going to walk through creating a system to bring uniformity to our apps with a single set of keyboard shortcuts. We'll start by learning how to install and configure the required apps, then, later on, I'll introduce the system of keyboard shortcut organization I use every day.
Read more [tighten.co]
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No code reviews by default
At Raycast, the dev team only requests code reviews when they think it's necessary.
Read more [www.raycast.com]
Our improved changelog workflow for packages original
For years, my team and I manually updated the changelog for our 250+ packages. Recently, we've improved how we go about this.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
How I built a modern website in 2021
A pretty interesting read by Kent on how he rebuilt his own site from scratch. Kent is mostly JavaScript focused, so it's good to get a perspective on which technolgies and solutions you choose with such a background.
The website certainly looks very good!
Read more [kentcdodds.com]
Git Rebase: a love story
At work, Tim MacDonald decided to show git rebase the love it deserves with a brown bag session. He has record it, so we can enjoy it as well.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Auto Merge Dependabot Pull Requests
Stefan Zweifel created a nice workflow to automatically merge dependabot PRs when all tests pass
Read more [stefanzweifel.io]
Using composer patches
When you use software that is open source, you'll sometimes run into issues or small bugs that have already been fixed by the community in a PR or an issue, but have yet to be merged and/or released. If you're impatient and need that fix now, composer patches can be a solution for this problem.
Read more [www.rias.be]
Triaging feedback on GitHub using issues and discussion original
Yesterday, GitHub launched discussions as a public beta. We've been using the feature for a couple months. In this blogpost, I'd like to share how we will use discussions for our repos.
My current setup (end 2020 edition) original
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.
Exclude linting & formatting commits when running Git blame
As of Git 2.23 there is a way to configure a list of commits for git blame to ignore.
Read more [tekin.co.uk]
How the Pest PhpStorm Plugin Will Improve Your Testing Workflow
– blog.jetbrains.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
Users of Pest will be happy to know there's now a nice plugin to improves integration in PhpStorm.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
A quick look at how you can configure your GitHub Actions workflows to only run when a certain phrase is present in the commit message.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
How to clean up your local git branches
What happens to all of those local branches after the pull request has been merged and deleted on Github?
Read more [tomschlick.com]
How to Build and Autoload Your Own PHP Package Locally
Matt Stauffer shows a good workflow for this.
Read more [mattstauffer.com]
Building and Deploying with Github Actions
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
Dries Vints wrote a short piece on setting up a continuous delivery pipeline with Github Actions.
Read more [driesvints.com]
Adding Commits to Someone Else's Pull Request
– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
When getting an open source pull request, sometimes you'll need to make a change before merging. Here's how to do that.
Read more [tighten.co]
Using BetterTouchTool as a window manager original
In this short post, I'd like to share how I use BetterTouchTool in my daily work.
PhpStorm settings after 8 years of use
– 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.
Read more [stefanbauer.me]
Remove all history from a GitHub repository original
From time to time I need to remove all history from a GitHub repository, for instance right before releasing a package I've worked on in private. Sometimes I don't want people to see all mistakes I've made along the way :-).
