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2018 started with the announcement of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, causing great concern and a lot of confusion.

I use Vagrant boxes on Virtualbox for pretty much all my development work these days. Often I need to mount a new shared folder to the box I’m working on, but updating the Vagrantfile and rebooting takes too long to my liking.

It’s much faster to mount with NFS directly when it’s a one-off!

If you’re enabling HTTP/2 for your applications, remember that HTTP/2 implementations are generally much more strict than earlier versions of HTTP. Especially on older systems, there might be some surprises waiting for you!

We released version 1.5 of our Joomlatools Console tool at the start of the year.

On my development machine I’ve always used the good old /etc/hosts file to point test domains like newsite.test to a local IP. This approach works fine but it’s a bit cumbersome to manage.