tl;dr
I recommend every developer turn off automatic garbage collection in git. It's one of the first things I do setting up a new machine - and you should do so too.
For a happier life, go to your terminal right now and run:
$ git config --global gc.auto 0
I promise you won't regret it.
The fu…
A little over a year ago I wrote a post about using Beyond Compare on Mac via Wine. A native version is now in beta and open to everyone! If you haven't tried Beyond Compare, I suggest you do. If you have you already know how awesome it is.
I've been testing the Alpha for many months now and thoug…
Composer is amazing for pulling in packages, but what if you find a Gist that isn't Composer aware? Fear not, as Composer has the magical ability to pull in repositories not explicitly set up in Packagist by defining them in the "repositories" section.
But what if you wanted to load a single class…
I switched from Windows to Mac for work a little over a year ago (I've been using Macs at home for years) and there is one program I still could not live without - Scooter Software's wonderful Beyond Compare. I've tried every single diff tool available and none have lived up to Beyond Compare. It t…
In my work, I deal with a lot of very similar codebases - and often if I fix something in one project I'll want to fix it in many others. For a long time this has meant popping open Beyond Compare, which works, but isn't the simplest solution.
I use git on my projects - but they're not similar eno…
