Writing — Page 28

Downtown St. Louis anchors a city with more depth than most people expect — the riverfront, the Arch, the old buildings, and an energy that rewards walking.

A quiet 199-acre county park on the Mississippi bluffs where wildflowers bloom in spring and great blue herons stalk the shallows.

A 105-acre open-air museum where giant sculptures live among the trees — Laumeier is one of St. Louis's best-kept secrets.

A quick look at VisBug, the browser extension that gives designers and developers a visual layer on top of any site — inspecting accessibility, tweaking colors, and moving elements around without touching the inspector.

Notes and takeaways from Laracon Online 2019 — covering event sourcing in Laravel, writing less complex code, Livewire, and other highlights from the conference sessions.

A quick tip on using WordPress's built-in MockPHPMailer in PHPUnit tests to intercept and assert against outgoing emails without sending anything to real recipients.

A follow-up to the shell setup guide — how to configure your .zshrc with aliases and PATH entries, and use OhMyZSH plugins and themes to make your terminal faster and more enjoyable to work in.

How to install and configure Mailhog on MAMP so all outgoing mail is intercepted locally during development — preventing test emails from reaching real users while you build and debug.

Reflections on mentoring through LaunchCode — why passion and self-driven learning matter more than formal education, and what it means to help someone break into development the way you had to figure it out yourself.