Mermaid.js is one of my recent favorite tools I’ve added to my toolbox. Mermaid.js is an open-source diagramming tool that converts plain structured text and renders diagrams as SVG or PNG images. You can use the following tools to render and save mermaid diagrams on your documents but there are…

I want to talk about a common practice among developers who work on multiple machines or work on (many) servers. As developers, we spend a healthy amount of our time on the shell and work with command line tools. If you fit in this description, it is important to configure…

Setting up a project that runs in a web server (consider a traditional server like an AWS EC2 instance) requires you to deploy your code and configure the application. Doing this once may not be a big task but doing it continuously is not. Not to mention it will get…

There are probably tons of both diagramming tools as well as wireframing tools out there. And I have been using most of those throughout my profession. I want to talk about my recent favorite “excalidraw” that I made it a quick-note style using its Visual Studio Code extension and some…

Atuin is a command line utility that replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database.

Github is an amazing community and became how we host, share, and showcase our work as developers. It became a unanimous home to the open source community. Github does not stop amazing me every day. A developer’s Github profile has now become THE source of how hiring decisions are informed…

This is one of the areas that I get angry at Google where it used to be leading this category and clearly fell behind in the competition.

When working with WordPress, there are many occasions you may need a quick spin WordPress environment without dealing with database setup and a web server. Making WordPress use a SQLite database and run on a native PHP server is surprisingly easy and simple. I’ve been using this setup for testing plugins, and themes and trash the setup without worrying about it much. The magic here is mostly automating the installation and configuration of the WordPress instance using wp-cli. It’s very easy to install and run wp-cli from a phar package.

When building a web app, we often use our go-to CSS framework (bootstrap, tailwindcss…) that comes with a lot of useful stuff that normalizes and speeds up our UI building process. Frameworks also come with a lot of baggage, a lot of it. Most of our UIs are not super…