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Table Relationship Diagrams with Graphviz

I recently found myself looking for a modern tool to diagram relationships between tables of data. When I came up short, I used a very old tool instead.

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Seven JetBrains Shortcuts & One Plugin You’ll Wonder How You Coded Without

As a JetBrains user my entire career, I have definitely benefited from these shortcut and plugins efficiencies over time.

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Improving Command Line Productivity with GNU Readline

My favorite Readline features for improving my workflow on the command line—keyboard shortcuts, long commands, reverse search, and persisting options.

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Comparing the New Atom-IDE to Visual Studio Code for Web Development

A comparison of Atom-IDE's new features with Visual Studio Code for web dev. Would I recommend Atom-IDE? At this point, only for the brave and curious.

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Simple Database Dump/Restore with Postgres on Heroku

This fetches the database URL using the Heroku CLI, and then uses Postgres's pg_dump command to dump the contents of the database into a local file.

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Local HTTPS During Development with Docker

I found myself pushing code to a test server every time I wanted to run it, which worked, but was annoying. So I went in search of a solution.

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Painless Shipping with GitHub Releases

Github's Releases feature makes managing multiple releases relatively easy. Here are a few reasons I love it and use it consistently.

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There’s More Than One Way to Edit Text

I wanted to discover different ways to quickly edit my file, each faster than making all of the necessary changes manually. Here are a few I discovered.

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My Favorite Commands from a Year of Vim

I’ve been using vim as my primary text editor for a little over a year now. I’m going to share some of my favorite vim commands that I’ve discovered.

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Remembering the Utils: Substitutions with Sed

These utilities turned a daunting process of identifying and repairing hundreds of calls into a simple pipeline, easily adapted to fix other problems.

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A Guide to Transitioning from GUI Editors to Vim

A short guide for transitioning to Vim from GUI text editors like VS Code and Sublime. Get up to speed by learning the most essential commands.

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Three Awesome Spacemacs Features

I was initially hooked by the nearly flawless Vim emulation. But then I fell in love with the pre-defined mnemonic shortcuts and amazing packages.

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