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Written by Jason McCreary
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on Dec. 31, 2021
I've been writing these post for the last four years. There are a way for me to reflect upon last year and set goals for the new year. I like to keep them terse and fun. Hence the reference to regular expressions and use of emojis. 2021 Goals ✅ Expand Shift as a business This one really gets two ch…
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on Nov. 23, 2021
I'm honestly not sure if this is all that impressive. It admittedly took longer than I thought. Over the same time, I could've made more as a well-paid software engineer. The service is for a pretty mundane task. I probably could've made 3x the revenue. These are some of the thoughts I'll explore…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Sep. 13, 2021
During the last week of August I had the idea to live stream each day. The goal was to build a Shift from start to finish. In this case, a PHPUnit to Pest Converter. This was mostly to work in public. It wasn't just me. Jess Archer joined for some pairing sessions, and the audience itself helped at…
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…
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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…
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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…