This blog design has just gotten an upgrade. The first design iteration after getting back to blogging in January 2020. Visually I wanted to improve and extend the minimalistic design I’ve been using. So I stick with the same color palette, but added new elements and I tried to make things more appealing. At the […]
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Laravel's Valet is amazing. It makes setting up a new PHP Projects on macOS as easy as creating a folder. Valet has many advantages over for example Docker, as it has less overhead. No need to download images, no need to build them, no additional disk space is blocked by all the VM images, containers so on and so forth. Valet also takes advantage of your full CPU power as it doesn't have to share resources with a parent slash host OS. Of course, Docker has many advantages, too. In this article, however, we won't look at the things that make each of them stand out – instead I want to list all of those smaller and bigger problems one can run into when using Valet in your day to day web development. And of course how to fix them.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Building the administration or the storefront can take quite some time when working with Shopware. Thankfully, one can greatly improve the performance the build and watch commands by switching from npm to pnpm. What pnpm does differently is to avoid repeat downloads by saving packages into a local store, and then simply symlinking them into your projects.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Nginx by default does not block unwanted access to your web server when it's done directly to your servers IP addresses. Here's how you can fix this behaviour to protect your servers resources.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Stop using APT, start using NALA instead. Indeed, Nala comes with a neat interface, that shows you the important stuff without all the APT clutter and nonsense. It’s way faster and switching from APT to NALA is really easy. Check out this short introduction by Chris Titus: It requires python3 in a recent version, so […]
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Other IDEs come and go. Yes I'm looking at you Atom. But Eclipse PDT is still around. It's not the most popular one, nor does it fully support PHP 8, yet. Nonetheless, it's still a great, highly customisable IDE. A bit bloated, a bit slow at times but a worthy alternative to VS Code, PhpStorm, Nova, Sublime Text and whatnot.... This article shows you how to install and setup this IDE with Java onto a RamDisk on macOS for maximum performance.
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