In Beware of the Makefile Effect, the author defines the phrase as such: Tools of a certain complexity or routine unfamiliarity are not run de novo, but are instead copy-pasted and tweaked from previous known-good examples. If you read the article, you’ ll see that there are a number of…
Tom McFarlin
Strategies for Locally Developing Google Cloud Functions
For the last few months, I’ ve been doing a lot of work with Google Cloud Functions (along with a set of their other tools such as Cloud Storage, PubSub, and Cloud Jobs, etc.). The ability to build systems on top of Google’ s Cloud Platform (or GCP) is great….
Review and Highlights of 2024
I usually don’ t write a full “ year in review” type of post, but I do sometimes highlight various milestones, goals, and/or notable things that have happened in the last year. And this year, I’ ve both the desire and time to write about exactly that. When drafting the last…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2024
Over the years, I’ ve usually written some type of end of the year post centered around Christmas that also talks about what’ s happening and what happened: 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 And the closest I came to doing something like this last year was an article about The…
Catch Outgoing Emails From WordPress in Laravel Herd
Earlier this year, I swapped my local development environment over to Herd (along with a couple of other changes such as DBngin which is worth covering in another post). There’ s a lot to like about it one of which is how easy it is to begin capturing outgoing…
