Notes from the keyboard and the workshop.
A few years after entering programming I discovered the hobby of spoon carving. It has become the perfect antidote to the numbing effects of the digital. Holding a piece of raw wood in your hand, listening to the sound of a sharp blade pare away smooth shavings... it's a wonderful experience!
Docker is still a mind-bender for me. Fortunately kind people write detailed articles like this!
Docker for local web development, introduction: why should you care?
Upgrading Laravel Homestead on my system requires a few additional steps not outlined in the official documentation. Instead of recreating them from memory each time I wanted to collect the items here.
Try disabling xdebug if you get a segmentation fault error when running php unit tests on CircleCI. Xdebug is installed automatically on some docker images and can cause segfaults during the build process.