#developer-tools

Two majors in one afternoon, driven by a security advisory. Exactly one failure stopped the build. The other four shipped green and had to be found by looking.

A collection of agent skills that encapsulates my preferred patterns across the frontend and backend stack I use daily.

What code agents actually are, how they work internally, and how to use them without losing control of your codebase. A deep dive into the ReAct loop, the skill system, OpenCode, and the security considerations nobody talks about.

Ignoring files in a shared repository without touching the shared .gitignore — the two ways Git offers, and the one that silently switches off your global ignores if you are not expecting it.

A step-by-step guide to running Oracle Database XE on Apple Silicon Macs using Colima and Docker, overcoming architecture compatibility issues and enabling persistent database storage.

A bash snippet that installs phpunit, phploc, phpmd, pdepend and the rest of the PHP QA toolchain in one go through Composer.

A PHP continuous test runner rewritten to depend only on inotifywait, replacing the earlier Ruby and Watchr version.

How to run GitHub's Hubot on a gTalk account so a bot sits in the team's chat and does the boring parts of the day.

Why files edited on the host don't always show up inside a Vagrant box over vboxsf, and how to stop the caching from biting while developing Opennemas.

Colour, tables and progress in a PHP console tool — and the detail most scripts get wrong: knowing when nobody is watching, because your output has been redirected into a file.