The world of software development offers an infinite amount of ways to mess up: deleting the wrong things, coding into dead ends, littering commit messages with typos, are a mere few of the plentitude.
Fortunately, however, we have a …
A URL Scheme is like “http://…” or “ftp://…”. Those seem like a very low-level concept that you don’t have much control over, but actually, you do! What sounds like an exotic topic is not so exotic at all: we are …
Someone wrote in asking about some icons in my Dock. I figured that might be a fun thing to share, and y’all can follow suit and share yours as well. I know “Docks” are a little Mac-centric, but feel free …
Most people wouldn’t call version control their hobby. But in the last few years, people have also become aware of how valuable it is. Nowadays, you won’t find a top programmer, web developer, or web designer who doesn’t use …
Everybody has a list of things they don’t like: an appointment at the dentist, a traffic jam, or a canceled flight. When I was preparing my book, I wasn’t surprised that a lot of designers and developers would add …
In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven’t had much experience with this, so forgive me if it’s a bit rough.
We …
You are probably pretty aware of why using version control is a good thing. In case you aren’t, I quickly go through that in this video. Then we get into the most basic thing we can possibly do: put a …
