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As it seems to be popular in the dev community these days, for the first time ever I've decided to write my own summary of 2019. I'm curious how 2020 will compare but this is definitely not a...

Right after upgrading my local PHP environment to 7.4 on the Windows laptop that I use at work, I ran a Laravel artisan console command for an HTTP request to a 3rd party API. I ran the command in my...

On Mac, PHP can be easily upgraded to 7.4 with Homebrew. However, the command line may continue to show the previous version. Here's how to fix that. Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac is a...

Are you a developer who wants to record part or all of your screen on a Mac, and then convert it to GIF to post on social media or elsewhere? Here's my personal workflow to achieve this. The things...

To my consternation, the SSL certificate on my pet project 1secret.app expired when I least expected it, leaving the site in that dubious state where every browser displays an ugly security warning,...

Ever ran out of disk space on your Vagrant/Homestead database partition? Neither did I... until recently. Here's how it happened and how I fixed it. The image above is a screenshot of the error...

The first few times I ran into the "No input file specified" error while trying to get a new Laravel project working in my local environment, it took me a while to figure out. Fear not, Laravel...

Accessibility (or a11y as it is also known) is not just a fancy buzzword that you've been hearing a lot about lately. It turns out that underperforming in this category can affect not just your...

I won't make a secret of the fact that I just don't like coding open source on Windows. It makes really hard to get all the necessary tools in working order, and then it's super slow for common and...

I've been working on a SaaS product and I'm close to an official launch, but based on preliminary user feedback I decided to rebrand the site to a new domain name. The previous domain was rather...