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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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Simple Way to Start (and Stop!) Background Processes in Bash

A Bash script to quickly start and stop multiple processes from the command line during development, while running multiple servers and/or clients.

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Running the Current Test File in VS Code

How to configure Visual Studio Code to run an external shell command passing the current file as an argument. Great for running tests!

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Testing Email Workflows Using Disposable Email Addresses

How can you test that your code triggers the message to be sent AND that the message gets delivered to a real mailbox? With a disposable email service.

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