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Hi there. I'm Zach.
Welcome to my site. It's not much, but it's all mine.
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Cheers :)
Pages
Projects
- tcpcv text-based résumé server
</marquee>github as text-based art- the mud coders guild community for text-based gamedevs
Posts
2022
2021
- Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
- From the Kitchen of...
- New Job, Who Dis?
- Searching for Kid-Friendly Searching
- This Post Was Written by GitHub Copilot
- Take the Scenic Route
- Life Is Too Short to Waste Time
- 5 Simple Things I Do Every Morning to Sabotage My Day
- What Our Children Deserve
2020
- Get a Typewriter. Write a Friend.
- 5 Git Aliases I Can't Live Without
- Fix Spaghetti Code and Other Pasta-Theory Antipatterns
:: techtarget - An Introduction to Vagrant Aliases
- 4 Tired Developer Debates That Need to Just Die Already
- Write Clean PHP Code (or "else")
- Lazy, Stupid, and Mean: The Art of Writing Defensive Documentation
- Establishing a Documentation Strategy: A Practical Template
- Writing a Damn Good README File
- Host Your Own Internet Radio Station
- # Always Be Commenting
2019
- Never Install a Thing Again (Except Docker)
- Putting the "Code" in Configuration Management
:: automox - The Life and Times of Configuration Management: A Brief History
:: automox
2018
- Soft(there): Dealing With Deprecations
:: automox - Soft(where): Where Does Software Come From?
:: automox - Trust, but Verify
:: automox - The Ins-and-Outs of Package Management
:: automox - The Linux (R)evolution
:: automox - Apple, Updates, and You
:: automox - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microsoft Windows Updates
:: automox - Introducing Eloquent Interactions: A Command Pattern Implementation for Laravel
2017
- Magento on Vagrant: Lessons Learned
- Beyond the Ban: Creatively Enforcing Rules Without Losing Players
:: the mud coders guild - (Updated) Speeding Up the Craft CMS Admin Dashboard
2016
- Why We Review
- Good Code Is Subjective, Documentation Is Not
- Incident Management and Continuous Integration, a Partnership for Success
:: pagerduty - Messing with the GitHub Contribution Graph
- MIME Type Validation Sucks
- Connecting to a PostgreSQL Database in Vagrant with PSequel
- The Rise and Fall of the Free Lance
- Convenience Is Making Me Lazy and Poor
- Setting Up CloudFlare SSL for Laravel on Heroku
- How (and why) to Perform a Project Audit
- I'm Not a Writer, and so Can You!
2015
- What is Full Stack Deployment?
:: sumologic - Leveraging AWS Spot Instances for Continuous Integration
:: sumologic - API Design: A Documentation-first Approach
:: dzone - Why Vagrant is the Best Developer Environment
:: dzone
2014
- How to Force Installation of Vagrant Plugins
- Running CodeIgniter Controllers in the Command Line
- PHP Binary Search Tree Implementation
- PHP Queue and Stack Implementations
- Quickly Determine If Two Strings Are Anagrams in PHP
- A Linked List Implementation in PHP