Really fascinating breakdown, thanks for posting it. While I ...

Dec 3 '20

That’s an interesting approach. How do you write code on th...

Dec 27 '19

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Dec 27 '19

Nice! I will check that out.

Dec 27 '19

What advantages does Pop offer over regular Ubuntu?

Dec 27 '19

Another oldie, but goodie is FileMaker Pro. It's wholly own...

Nov 17 '19

You will have to restart PHP to update the files that were ...

Aug 13 '19

Sounds like a good challenge! What type of data were you tr...

Jun 10 '19

So a completely new entity, but it uses EAV tables for stor...

Jun 9 '19

I would like to hear about the experience if you do refacto...

Apr 17 '19

That’s awesome! How is Firebase? Is it a good experience? I...

Mar 6 '19

Yes you could set that up server side, but I wanted to use ...

Feb 13 '19

Thanks for the kind words! There is a lot I would like to d...

Jan 11 '19

Thank you! I do enjoy resisting the unwarranted PHP hate.

Jan 11 '19

Thanks for the recommendation. I have been wanting to set u...

Dec 17 '18

It’s definitely worth the time to learn it.

Dec 17 '18

TailwindCSS is great, thanks for reading!

Dec 17 '18

College football and video games. 😂

Nov 10 '18

Thanks for including my posts. That’s a great list!

Nov 7 '18

Unit tests are the best!

Sep 25 '18

I agree that comments are necessary, depending on the circu...

Sep 25 '18

There’s always a trade off, but I think in general coders a...

Sep 25 '18

Good call! I’ve seen several recommendations for using is/h...

Sep 25 '18

I think we never stop learning to code better. I always fee...

Sep 25 '18

I agree! Everyone hates going back to code that can take ho...

Sep 25 '18

Thanks! I was just using it as an example.

Sep 24 '18

I've often thought about going to a desktop computer for de...

Aug 31 '18

Probably Rust and Elixir for me. I felt like if I had given...

Aug 26 '18

It is amusing to me because a microservice architecture is ju...

Aug 25 '18

I was being facetious. There is nothing wrong with monolith...

Aug 24 '18

Wait, you're not going to break up Dev.to into microservices ...

Aug 24 '18

It's definitely worth checking out. I like it because it st...

Jul 18 '18

Thanks for responding! PRPL is a new pattern to me, hopeful...

Jul 11 '18

Do you think the recent rise in popularity of single page app...

Jul 11 '18

Thanks for pointing that out. I just wrote the method as an...

Jul 7 '18

It’s not as bad as you might think. It forces you to accoun...

Jul 6 '18

Are you looking at creating some screens natively or will i...

Jun 23 '18

Definitely will check out the DotEnv extensions. Thanks for...

Jun 7 '18

Might be too mainstream of an answer, but I still get surpr...

Jun 3 '18

Everything has its quirks, including Django. If you like Pyth...

Apr 30 '18

It’s hard to turn the direction of a large ecosystem, but i...

Apr 30 '18

That’s a valid concern, a lot of PHP jobs are related to Wo...

Apr 30 '18

StackOverflow is a tough place to change opinions. A lot of...

Apr 30 '18

I wish I had known to learn a framework and to learn securi...

Apr 30 '18

The amount of companies using PHP is amazing. It may not ha...

Apr 29 '18

Definitely seeing more and more hype around Progressive Web...

Apr 29 '18

I definitely think there needs to be a balance. I didn’t ment...

Apr 4 '18

For me, improved speed is a personal preference. Often I wi...

Apr 2 '18

Sublime Text is written in C++, but its plugin system is in...

Apr 2 '18

The OWASP top ten security vulnerability documents are a gr...

Mar 25 '18

Looks really good! Thanks!

Mar 16 '18

That’s good advice, I normally avoid the HAML like template...

Mar 14 '18

I’ve definitely been questioned about programming languages...

Mar 5 '18

As a PHP Developer, learning Linux/Unix commands and philos...

Feb 27 '18

Great post, this is a really good reminder. I often feel a ...

Feb 26 '18

Totally agree! The language wars are exhausting because it’...

Feb 21 '18

I think good tests force you to use better engineering so i...

Feb 20 '18

I don’t do TDD religiously, but I’m trying to move in that ...

Feb 20 '18

I mostly use PHPUnit for PHP and Xunit for Swift though the...

Feb 20 '18

I agree with all your points. As popular as React Native is...

Feb 19 '18

I agree! The pressure to know the hit, most popular languag...

Feb 19 '18

Thanks! Typically you will write a test every time you fix ...

Feb 19 '18

I'm becoming more of a fan of static types after using Swif...

Feb 7 '18

If the speed of Electron catches up, then it Code will be r...

Jan 29 '18

I don’t think any editor is exactly comparable because they...

Jan 29 '18

I would buy that.

Jan 27 '18

That’s good to know, thanks for responding! I’ve been worki...

Jan 26 '18

I got the developer build of Sublime with font ligatures enab...

Jan 26 '18

I’ve tried PHPStorm, it’s hard to adjust to after getting u...

Jan 26 '18

Definitely agree. VS Code has a heavy focus on JavaScript a...

Jan 26 '18

If I was doing more TypeScript or React, VS Code would be r...

Jan 26 '18

I tried PHPStorm, but I prefer more lightweight editors. Pl...

Jan 26 '18

I think they removed the telemetry because of bad press, bu...

Jan 26 '18

I did, but don’t use it because of it’s previous privacy is...

Jan 25 '18

I’ve used this plugin before: github.com/martomo/SublimeTex...

Jan 25 '18

That makes sense, thanks!

Jan 24 '18

Hi Sandi, thanks for doing this AMA. When you code, do you fo...

Jan 24 '18

Based on what I have read, emulated prepares are as safe as...

Jan 9 '18

I saw Sandi Metz at a conference last year and was blown aw...

Dec 28 '17

I have explored the web side of Swift a little, but only us...

Dec 18 '17

I'm also interested in AWS AppSync. Platforms as a service ...

Nov 30 '17

How are you feeling about Hanami vs Rails? I know Hanama is...

Nov 30 '17

You've not used NoSQL? gasp Just kidding and thank you for...

Nov 30 '17

You’re hitting the nail on the head. It’s really important ...

Nov 28 '17

This comment seems to be a harsh generalization and proves ...

Nov 28 '17

Good point. PHP’s ease of use can also be its downfall some...

Nov 28 '17

Thanks for sharing, I enjoy hearing stories like your’s. Bu...

Nov 28 '17

The ultimate point of my article was that building a succes...

Nov 28 '17

That’s a great point. Sometimes I wonder if PHP’s ubiquity ...

Nov 28 '17

Programming in PHP can be a lot of fun and you can make gre...

Nov 28 '17