I’ll be speaking next month at the WordPress Meetup about the using Docker to host a development WP server on your laptop. Here’s the writeup: Docker for WordPress Docker enables developers to easily pack, ship, and run any application (including WordPress) as a lightweight, self-sufficient container which can run virtually anywhere. For WordPress users, this
So you’ve just learned something cool on a new subject, and you want to let the world know about your discovery. You go to the project’s wiki, and jot it all down. But how can you help people read what you’ve written? When I look at pages on a wiki, I use three criteria to
DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself – is it relevant for documentation? I recently saw this comment on a forum… I’m not sure how useful it is to remove duplication [from the documentation pages]. It’s not code… IMHO, duplication in documentation is a couple orders of magnitude worse than duplication in code (and duplication in code
I’ve been playing with the spate of new Javascript technologies, and ran into a problem. As a beginner in this new ecosystem, I chose one of those big “starter kits” because I wanted to avoid the hassle of configuring all the tooling (see Javascript fatigue). But there was so much boilerplate that it was hard
Back in October, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ethan Banks on the Packet Pushers podcast. In it, we talked about the definition of bufferbloat, and how it harms the performance of VoIP, gaming, and general internet use. (It’s the reason our children say, “The internet is slow today, Daddy.”) I also described how
[Update Sep 2016: I just posted a support request with Webstorm asking for an updated tutorial on this subject. It’s Ticket WEB-23528] It recently became possible to debug both server-side and client webpack applications with JetBrains’ WebStorm. The instructions came from a ticket WEB-20781, but they’re not in one place, so I figured I would
I wanted to learn React, and I have been wandering around the Internet, looking at a zillion “how to get started” tutorials. I’m not sure what made me stop and look hard at Hacking with React, but I’m so glad I did. Hacking with React provides a great combination: a progression of straightforward, short lessons
For some unfathomable (to me) reason, Windows doesn’t seem to ship with a SSH program out of the box. I’ve used the venerable Putty in the past, but it makes you do a lot of work for a simple SSH session. I recently ran across an open-source replacement called Cmder for Windows. Based on ConEmu,
Bufferbloat is undesirable latency caused by a router buffering too much data. It makes your kids say, “The Internet is slow today, Daddy”. It’s caused by routers and other network equipment buffering (accepting for delivery) more data than can be delivered in a timely way. Bufferbloat causes much of the poor performance and human pain
I posted a set of scripts that people can use to test, configure and debug their CeroWrt router installations. CeroWrt router firmware is a test bed for learning about and eliminating bufferbloat. The scripts are available on Github at https://github.com/richb-hanover/CeroWrtScripts. They include: betterspeedtest.sh – a script that emulates the famous (but limited) speedtest.net. This script