I recently encountered a network issue where my WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) distro was unable to retrieve DNS and connect to the internet without me changing /etc/resolv.conf. Likewise, Windows was unable to connect to the WSL2 ports via localhost. To quickly workaround these issues, I set my nameserver to be 1.1.1.1 in /etc/resolv.conf and […]
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is pure awesome, and WSL2 is even more awesome. (If you’ve never heard of it before, it’s Linux running inside Windows 10 – not as a virtual machine or emulator, but as a fully supported environment that shares the machine.) I’ve been testing WSL2 for a few months now as […]
I’m a huge fan of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), especially WSL2 which uses a virtualisation layer to bring increased performance and compatibility to WSL. However, one of the few downsides of WSL2 is that it uses a virtual disk (VHDX) to store the filesystem. This means you can end up in a situation where […]
A relatively unknown and underused feature of Git is the ability to cryptographically sign commits. It is an optional feature that provides a way for the author of a commit to prove ownership. It uses the author’s GPG key to leave a signature in the commit that can be checked later. If you’re a Keybase […]
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Byobu is an easy-to-use wrapper around the tmux (or screen) terminal multiplexer. This means that it makes it easy for you to open multiple windows and run multiple commands within a single terminal connection.
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Ansible 2.0 has recently been released, and with it comes support for version 2 of the DigitalOcean API. This means that you can use Ansible to not only provision your web applications, but also to provision and manage your Droplets automatically.
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a Semaphore CI Community Tutorial. Introduction PHPUnit is one of the oldest and most well known unit testing packages for PHP. It is primarily designed for unit testing, which means testing your code in the smallest components possible, but it is also incredibly flexible and can […]
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as part of the Automating Your PHP Application Deployment Process with Ansible tutorial series for the Digital Ocean Community. Introduction This tutorial is the third in a series about deploying PHP applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04. The first tutorial covers the basic steps for deploying an […]
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as part of the Automating Your PHP Application Deployment Process with Ansible tutorial series for the Digital Ocean Community. Introduction This tutorial is the second in a series about deploying PHP applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04. The first tutorial covers the basic steps for deploying an […]
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as part of the Automating Your PHP Application Deployment Process with Ansible tutorial series for the Digital Ocean Community. Introduction This tutorial covers the process of provisioning a basic PHP application using Ansible. The goal at the end of this tutorial is to have your new web […]