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In one of my previous posts we discussed setting up dnsmasq to manage local domain names for development or testing purposes on your macOS machine. This makes it easier to manage these domains but you still need to restart the service with sudo after making changes.

One of my Electron applications suddenly started complaining during the code-signing step in our Travis build process. The error looked like this:

I was working with an application that needed to run a couple of command line scripts during deploy time. Those scripts required certain environment variables to be set from a separate file.

Since the release of PHP 5.4, traits have become a standard part of the language. They’re a great way to introduce reusable methods without having to rely on inheritance. But how can we test its methods if it’s not possible to instantiate a trait?

For some projects we use Imgix to optimise and cache images. That means we also need to purge them every time we deploy with Capistrano. Here’s how I automated this process with Capistrano and bash.