Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Jan. 20, 2020
It's taken me 7? 8? months to write this blog post. It's the "how do I explain to blog readers I'm no longer working where I've spent the past year and a half? and I signed documents so I can't talk about it" blog post. So yeah, if we haven't spoken in the past 8 months, there's a good chance you'r…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Jun. 17, 2019
Explaining Laravel Settler If you view the readme.md of the Laravel Settler repository you’ll likely notice the not so inviting “You probably don’t want this repo”. While I try to be as inviting as I can across all open source repositories this one has always been a bit of the exception. The reason…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on May. 28, 2019
Homestead Fifty Six was an amazing learning experience for me. gitstore.app was an invaluable tool that allowed me to spend more time building my project rather than building out invoices and card processing. I also want to thank the sole customer who subscribed. The support from them was huge. Whi…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Apr. 19, 2019
No, not quite the Laravel Shift you may be thinking of. Shifting Homestead means we are taking some features that are currently baked into Laravel Settler and moving them to be installed on demand from Laravel Homestead as configuration items. If you don’t use these features you may never notice a…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Apr. 13, 2019
I recently converted my WordPress site over to a static site (using TightenCo's Jigsaw and ran into a problem I figured others might also: my Keybase.io web site verification failed because the URL to my verification file no longer exists. Keybase sent me an email with the subject "your web (joefer…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Mar. 5, 2019
The most recent major release of Homestead dropped support for PHP 5.6 and 7.0. While these PHP versions are end of life and will no longer be receiving updates, some developers still need access to these tools. You can certainly use and old version of Homestead but at some point the base box will…