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My long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, open-source maintenance and contribution, society, and more.

The Only Four GitHub PR Filters You Need

Streamline your GitHub workflow with four essential PR filters. Manage pull requests, reduce WIP time, and keep your team focused on priorities.

Update on dependency patch resolution

Project update for Composer Patches

I’ve found a new path forward with dependency patch resolution. A new beta release of Composer Patches is available with the functionality re-added.

Application-specific terminals

Project update for Dotfiles

Make Neovim, Mutt, and other terminal applications more useful in a macOS environment by wrapping them in a simple app bundle.

Dependency patch resolution

Project update for Composer Patches

An update on the dependency patch resolution functionality in Composer Patches 2.x, some burnout, and a bit about the future.

Dane Powell is comaintaining composer-patches

Project update for Composer Patches

Keeping Composer Patches maintained is important. Dane Powell now has commit access and has agreed to help with the project maintenance.

Fast local development on macOS with ddev and mutagen

Project update for ddev-mutagen

Docker for Mac users know: osxfs is just plain slow. NFS is a step forward, albeit with some tradeoffs. I’ve been experimenting with some different file mounting strategies in ddev, and I think I’ve found a winner.