Writing — Page 30

First impressions of Laravel and Vue.js coming from the WordPress world — covering Elixir, Homestead, Blade templates, and Vue's reactive data model, with thoughts on when each tool belongs.

A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a better terminal on Mac — installing iTerm2, switching to zsh, and customizing colors and fonts so the command line feels less intimidating and more powerful.

An encouragement for developers intimidated by the command line — why the CLi isn't as scary as it looks, and how tools like zsh, iTerm2, and OhMyZSH can make it genuinely enjoyable to work in.

A walkthrough for setting up and configuring linter plugins in the Atom text editor — covering both the Preferences UI and the APM command-line tool for package installation.

How to install and configure SublimeLinter and its language-specific plugins in Sublime Text 3 via Package Control — the right way to get real-time linting in your editor.

A guide to installing the prerequisite linters for your development workflow — PHPCS with WordPress Coding Standards, JSHint, JSCS, and SCSS-Lint — before wiring them into your editor.

A step-by-step Mac developer environment setup covering Node.js, Ruby, Git, Homebrew, PHP, and Composer — the foundation needed before adding tools like Sass, Grunt, or Bower.

A look at whether WP_Query hides too much from WordPress developers — the performance blind spots that come from treating the database as a black box, and why using Query Monitor is eye-opening.

How using Trello as a blog idea bank makes it easier to write consistently — capturing random ideas in a card-based format so you always have something to write about when you sit down.