Red Bearing

Sometimes you want to run a WordPress CLI command on your dev machine, and you just know running it with Docker would be easier than installing a PHP environment locally. But you also know that figuring out the correct Docker command line options to run is going to take forever! Never fear, here’s an example […]

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Here’s a cool trick for logging the state of the stack at any point in PHP: Only uses standard functions too 👍

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Trust in public institutions is something we’ve been banking up over time in New Zealand. Like saving money into a “rainy day” fund, we’ve slowly made deposits over the years into the trustworthyness of our institutions. While other countries have been chipping away at public trust, we’ve spent the last few decades at the top […]

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https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html The usual trade-off between cost and quality, one that we are used to for most decisions in our life, does not make sense with the internal quality of software. Martin Fowler I really enjoyed this piece by Martin Fowler. He was able to express a lot of the thoughts I often have when trying […]

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