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Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time writing Go code and, honestly, didn’t want to pay for a license for a commercial text editor or IDE. I asked around for recommendations and nearly everyone said "Use VS Code!". So that’s what I started using and this is my initial impressions after about two weeks with it.

There are loads of ways to deploy container-based applications. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to deploy a small application using Google's Cloud Run. It’s a powerful, yet not-too-imposing service that helps you deploy applications pretty quickly.

There are a number of ways to set environment variables in PHP. But the approach I use most often in development is a wonderful package called PHP dotenv. In this tutorial, I’m going to step you through how to install and use it.

I recently refactored parts of a web application for an upcoming Twilio tutorial into three open source packages. Here's what motivated the decision to do so, and why I think you should create them too.

Do you need to set environment variables for Composer scripts to work? Here’s how.

Yes, a new website design is coming..

As I've been building a new PHP application, recently, using the Slim framework, I've come to find myself at a bit of a crossroads in my outlook on building them.

I’ve been learning about Rust, recently, and today finished my first, short, tutorial for the Twilio blog using Rust. Now, I’d like to share what I learned while writing the tutorial, not learning how to code in Rust.

Yesterday, I published a short course on deploying with Docker Compose to my YouTube channel. In this post, Today, I’m stepping through what it took to create the short course, from start to finish.

If you want a simpler way to mix a podcast with Audacity, here’s what I’ve learned lately.