Double down Friday! Another good article about learning Vim in 4 weeks…not saying I -will-, just saying you -can-.

If you are so inclined to be a vim uber like James LaChance ;). https://medium.com/@peterxjang/how-to-learn-vim-a-four-week-plan-cd8b376a9b85

When you think you have it rough…this person learned programming, solo, in rural Uruguay.

Sometime we take the most basic of things for granted. Stable dependable internet, phone system, traffic control, having more than 50cents a day for food.…

Package release announcement. Auto-Gourcer (Repository visualizer)

I’ve always had a soft spot for visualizations. Info-graphics, animations, the the like. One specific tool I came across years back is Gource. Finally got…

Input, mutate, output…pretty much explains everything.

As a person with many hobbies I often find myself trying to take a situation I am not familiar with and compare it to something…

PHPStorm 2017.3 EAP New feature: In editor REST client.

If you happen to be anything like me, you spend a lot of time with APIs. JSON is a on your resume as a second…

Community resouces

Library of handy, helpful, informative, or motivational links. PHP https://www.phparch.com/podcast-subscribe/ Workflow / Productivity Yii2 http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/861/how-to-get-seo-friendly-url-using-model-and-new-geturl-function/ Why? https://github.com/juokaz/pyhp.js

An example of when being to clever can come back to bite you…

As part of a test I had to ensure only two alphabetical characters would allowed. So I used `chr(rand(97,122))`; which on a OSX machine is…

So youre using Docker in dev, but how do you get deploy?

Asmir Mustafic (@goetas_asmir) did a 10 minute presentation over at NomadPHP on how to deploy your PHP (or really any process) using docker. https://nomadphp.com/deploy-php-app-docker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deploy-php-app-docker

CoreOS; web security and privacy.

Alex Polvi over at CoreOS put out a short, but poignant article about not only why CoreOS was started, but why they care about privacy and…

Thus writer just made it to my `must read` list. Everything they state is spot on and to the point.

Eric Elliott wrote on Medium about the fear of change and how to build high velocity development teams. If you read nothing else this week.…