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Written by Jason McCreary
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on Dec. 31, 2020
We all know 2020 put many things on hold. But it's still good to reflect upon the year and set some new goals for 2021. Which we all hope will be a little better. So, let's jump right in with a review of last year's goals. 2020 Goals ✅ Expand the Shift platform In 2020 I expanded the Shift platform…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Dec. 18, 2020
Recently I set up CI with GitHub Actions. In addition, I added some Laravel Dusk tests. The combination of the two forced me to revisit the precedence of app configuration when testing Laravel. This is something I covered in Confident Laravel, but wanted to document it in a post. Plus, I found a fe…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Oct. 11, 2020
One of the initial posts I wrote for creating a local development environment on macOS was installing PHP my admin. Initially I have done this by including it in my own project files and adding an Apache virtual host configuration for it. Or at least a install it in the route web directory making…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Oct. 11, 2020
One of the initial posts for creating a local development environment on macOS included a section for installing PHPMyAdmin. These days I tend to use some thing like TablePlus or Sequel Pro plus to interface with MySQL. But sometimes I like to fall back on a handful of browser tools. Call me old sc…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Oct. 4, 2020
I recently switched to using Docker for my local development environment on macOS. While I normally interact with Docker through my local environment, there are times where I need to jump in to the running container and mess around. I created a command which makes it easier to interact with these…
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on Sep. 27, 2020
I recently switched to using Docker for my local development environment on macOS. I've been pretty happy with it. But a tiny paper cut has been jumping into one of the containers. Since each time I start my local environment the container IDs change, I'm always having to run docker container ps,…