Another good one for the responsible coder. Code reviews are a tricky thing. They can improve software quality tremendously; two know more than one, obviously. However, it is all too easy to invoke bad feelings in the reviewee (if you think, "They should just grow thicker skin, it's not personal", this is especially for you). The simple fact of the matter is, coders are people too, and following some easy tips when doing reviews can go a long way to improve (or at least not reduce) the moral of the team and thus the code quality.

Very thorough overview from Lullabot. Even though I think overall I am pretty good at this stuff, I picked up one or two tips, like writing ticket titles to complete the phrase “This ticket will….” (writing ticket titles and commit message starting with a verb is nothing new, but this is a helpful little mind trick).

Just now I was looking for how to type an emdash on the Mac (and also, whether my intended use was actually correct). I found this great little article.

En and em dashes are of­ten ap­prox­i­mated by typ­ing two or three hy­phens in a row (-- or --- ). Don’t do that—it’s an­other type­writer habit. Use real dashes.

The shortcuts are surprisingly simple on the Mac. The hyphen is just, well, the hyphen (a.k.a. minus, next to the +/= key). An en dash is created by pressing ⌥ - (option + hyphen). An em dash is ⌥ ⇧ - (option + shift + hyphen).

It looks like the version of Safari that comes with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 now has the .dev domain added to its HSTS preload list. What this means is that if you run your development sites on a .dev top-level domain, like me, Safari will force it to use https.

Yesterday, a dangerous - and quite embarrassing - bug was uncovered in macOS High Sierra. It is possible to authenticate with the user "root" and no password in situations where the OS asks for an administrative account.

It's been in development for literally years, now, from well before Drupal 8.0.0 was released (having kids has this severe effect on the amount of spare time you have for this sort of thing). In the same vain as I have always developed this site, this time I wanted to get some practice with Drupal 8 under my belt* (the blog has been om Joomla for the same reason, and the move to WordPress seven years ago had the same background). So, goodbye WordPress, hello Drupal. This feels a bit like coming home.

Certainly nothing new (it's from 2014), but this is a very comprehensive article about writing great commit messages.

Yesterday, I tweeted:

Seems like Apple removed the keyboard shortcut for entering responsive design mode in the latest Safari update.

— Eelke Blok (@eelkeblok) September 21, 2017

Today, I wipped out my favourite search engine (DuckDuckGo, obviously) and found out you can actually define your own keyboard shortcuts from the macOS Keyboard System Preferences.

Just now I had a bunch of URLs in a spreadsheet I wanted to quickly open. This time, it wasn't too quick, because I went down the rabbit hole of coming up with a solution (and making a blog post about it). Next time though....

Steps:

1. Copy your URLs into the clipboard (⌘C or Edit > Copy)
2. Open a terminal
3. Type:
   pbpaste|tr '\n' '\0'|xargs -0 -I{} open /Applications/Safari.app {} &

Quick rundown:

Last week, on wednesday May 24th, the annual Dutch Drupal conference DrupalJam had its 2017 edition in "De Fabrique" in Maarssen. After having been an attendee for quite some years, this time I submitted a proposal for a talk, which was accepted. I'm now happy to report the slides are available online: Drupal 8 Configuration Management, Workflows for Site Development.