Fedora 33 breaks ssh with gitlab
tldr; add PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-rsa to your gitlab entry on ~/.ssh/config.
What would make WSL2 perfect for PHP development?
I've been using WSL2 to develop Drupal sites for some months now, and it has been a surprise to me how well it works. I have native Linux speed and great tools (I use Sublime through X server and VS Code).
Transcode a video using a context menu on Windows
#windows
I'm using the game bar to create quick screencasts. The only problem is that the videos are too big to show only a few clicks. So, to quickly optimize a video for sharing I need to transcode it as easy as possible.
Updated with a new windows native tool.
Dokku: A Heroku alternative
TL;DR: Needed a way to easily deploy and manage legacy and new sites without spending a lot of money. Dokku gives me the awesome Heroku developer experience on a cheap VPS box.
Easy VRT testing
I normally work on different and very active projects in several testing environments. I needed a simple and fast way to generate visual regression tests between them, or even to just to compare my local environment to an integration server. However, it was cumbersome to edit backstop configuration files frequently just to change servers, thus I created a tool that simplifies the task a lot:
Git log filtering and how to show a better history tree
Some useful commands to find commits using Git:
Windows running on a Linux kernel?
This week Microsoft unveiled their Surface Phone, called Surface Duo. It looks great and I think it puts the company back in the innovators list.
Git errors when using Hyper-V
I started having some issues when using git inside a Linux VM while setting up an experimental Drupal development environment. I wasn't able to clone repositories because I was getting some errors saying the remote host hanged unexpectedly, or couldn't push changes. However I was able to clone shallow repos, but strangely Bitbucket and Gitlab seemed to be more prone to these errors.
Drupal development on Windows
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How to make a title block with a custom background
A common request I’ve received lately when building sites in Drupal is to make the background of the page title configurable to allow the user upload and change it.
