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The Road Of Lifelong Learning To Be A Better Developer – Using Git Better
ByTim Nolte March 20, 2019March 20, 2019
As a developer and, in some areas, a perfectionist I’m always after better #development practices when working collaboratively. An I personally find value in the #commit history. As a #git user I appreciate detailed case from @ecampidoglio on the proper way to keep a clean commit history. The Case for Pull Rebase
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Geek / Programming / WordPress
WordPress Development On A Chromebook, Termux, & Neovim
ByTim Nolte June 13, 2018July 1, 2019 Updated onJuly 1, 2019
So about 6 months ago I decided to make some changes to my personal development environment. I’ve been using a Chromebook as my primary machine since about 2013. I first purchased an Acer C710 for my wife to use but compared to our Macbook Pro it was a frustrating and subpar experience for her, not to mention she was a heavy Adobe Suite user. Since sharing the Macbook Pro was challenging I set out to use the Chromebook as me development machine. Originally I went with the crouton option. It was pretty sweet to have a full Linux environment alongside Chrome OS. I was then running a full LAMP environment with PhpStorm as my IDE. This worked OK, I had performance and stability issues at…
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Geek / Programming / Tech
If Money Were No Object, What I’d Choose For My Next Developer Machine
ByTim Nolte April 24, 2018April 24, 2018
These days I’m sporting an HP Chromebook 13 G1 which has mostly been a good machine. Seems like even with 8GB of RAM I still end up with some freeze ups when I’m plugging in or unplugging my USB-C dock. It’s rather frustrating but fortunately Google Chrome is designed to recognize abrupt closes and can recover. I used to run in developer mode but now since I can run Android apps I’m using Termux with a Linux shell and Neovim as my IDE. I’m still working out the best setup for Neovim but so far it’s serving me well. So back to the premise of this post and the main image. If I had the finances to support it I’d want my next machine to…
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Daily Thoughts / Programming
Lifelong Learning As A Developer
ByTim Nolte December 23, 2017December 23, 2017
“if you’re not enjoying learning new things about your job, what are you doing working that job in the first place?” – Bruno Skvorc
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Daily Thoughts / Programming / WordPress
[X-Post] WordPress Plugins Are Dead? Long Live Plugins
ByTim Nolte December 3, 2017July 1, 2019 Updated onJuly 1, 2019
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Links / Programming / WordPress
Free Unlimited WordPress Test Installs
ByTim Nolte May 15, 2017July 1, 2019 Updated onJuly 1, 2019
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