Category: Configuration
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Creating and Applying Diffs with Rsync
At work recently, we had a need to generate diffs between two different directory trees. This is so that we can handle deploys, but it’s after we’ve already generated assets, so we can’t just use git for the diff creation, since git diff doesn’t handle files that aren’t tracked by git itself. We looked into […]
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Alphabetic Filtering with Regex
Last week, I found myself needing to filter things alphabetically, using regex. Basically, this is because PHPUnit lets you filter what tests you run with regex, and we (we being Etsy) have enough tests that we have to split them into many parts to get them to run in a reasonable amount of time. We've […]
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Moving or Distributing Your Docker Build Cache
Recently, I hit an issue where building docker images on containers meant that the Docker cache wasn’t being persisted from one build to the next. So even if you ran an identical build on the next run, it’d still rebuild every step, costing you valuable time. Luckily, it’s not too difficult to save your Docker […]
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Using Docker for WordPress Theme & Plugin Development
In the time since I actually learned something about deploying to the web, I’ve been extremely unhappy with my WordPress development workflow. As a result, I haven’t developed any WordPress themes or plugins in quite a few years. I’ve just used themes and plugins as-is, but I’ve finally decided that I want to actually build […]
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User Lists in Twitch’s IRC with ZNC
Twitch’s IRC is, well, not like most IRC. They’ve modified it in so many ways, it’s difficult to still even consider it IRC. But hey, at least we still can connect to their chat services using IRC. I guess I shouldn’t complain. Anyway, one of their most recent changes was removing join/part messages completely from […]
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Automatic Deployment with Gitolite
About Gitolite About a year and a half ago, I came across a great open-source git repository management tool called Gitolite. It’s a great tool for hosting and managing git repositories. It worked especially well for me because I run my own web server where I could set it up. If you’d like to give […]
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Custom Keyboard Layouts in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
So, a few days ago, I sporadically decided to install the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my laptop. I just wanted to get a good look at what’s coming in the next version of Windows. Now, all commenting about Windows 8 aside, I had one pretty serious issue. You see, I’ve become incredibly reliant on the […]