Zach Adams 
Zach Adams How to disable the new Chrome Side Search Panel feature
A very annoying new "feature" added by Chrome in recent versions is adding search results to their new side-panel companion, including overriding the default behavior of the right-click contextual "Search Google for" on text selection. As far as I'm aware you're currently only able to disable it using flags, here's how to do it Read More
Keep Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) in Sync across multiple computers
Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) is a vagrant box designed for WordPress developers to setup a fully-functioning and fully-equipped local development server that can easily manage multiple WordPress sites. VVV is an awesome addition to any WP developers workflow, however one of the problems I had with it was its inability to sync files and databases across multiple computers. This meant that VVV was stuck on the computer it was installed on, and I needed to be able to work with VVV on my work computer and my laptop. Read More
Best Atom Packages for WordPress/PHP Development
Atom is a new IDE from Github has gained popularity among many different developers, replacing IDE's like PHPStorm and Sublime Text. What makes Atom different from other IDE's is it is built to be entirely hackable from the ground up, making it extremely customizable. Atom is designed around packages and themes, it even comes with it's own package manager "apm" which makes managing these packages a breeze. In this article I want to look at some of the best packages available for WordPress/PHP development. Read More
Python Scraping for WordPress
Ofttimes when building for WordPress I find myself in a situation which requires me to move a ton of content from a clients old site to a new one. If I'm lucky (relatively speaking) it's built on another CMS such as Drupal or Joomla which I can export content from pretty easily, but most times it's a crappy site built using plain HTML and Microsoft Frontpage *shudder*, and it only has 4-5 pages of simple content. If I'm super lucky it has hundreds of pages rather than a few, that's when things get fun. If you've ever been the victim of the busy work known as "content-moving" fear no more, Python is here to save the day! Read More
PHPStorm Allow Network Connections on Startup Fix
PHPStorm has an annoying bug in OS X where it always asks for permission to connect to the network on every startup. This got on my nerves so I researched and found out how to fix it: Step 1: Make a Self-Signing Certificate for PHPStorm Open… Read More
Supercharge Your Browser for Web Development
Think about common tasks you do in your browser everyday. Open a tab, close a tab, right click on a link to open it in a new tab, duplicate that tab, etc, etc. Usually browsing the web requires a fair amount of mouse or trackpad movement, and that can slow… Read More
Remove “Last Login at” from your Terminal on Startup
This post is gonna be super short and I don’t know why I didn’t add more but whatever. So on my terminal startup it always printed my last login time which is fine except for whatever reason I felt compelled to get rid of it so when I started my… Read More
How to Prevent Burnout in IT
Burnout is one of the greatest threats to people working in a technical field. Many of us enjoy our work, or at least parts of it, and are willing to work hours that would make others run in fear. In my opinion and experience this is a result of a… Read More
Hex Selector in the Mac Color Picker
I spent too much time then I'm willing to admit trying to find the stupid hex selector in the Mac Color Picker so if any of you are Googling out of frustration here's how you find it. Read More
Music to Listen to while Coding Part 2
Click here for Part 1! Link to my Spotify Playlist! Listening to music can provide focus and block out distractions for many coders. Many people have widely varied opinions when it comes to what's best, so I decided to toss my opinion into the mix. I don't tend to listen to all the music of every artist, usually only a few tracks from each, so I will list out each artist I recommend and the top songs I listen to from them. Read More