Jonathan Bossenger

Random Access Memory

One of the reasons I blog is to share info with others. The other reason I blog is to make permanent notes for myself. This is my online repository of the things I don’t have the brain space to remember.

Guide to everyday Git commands

Setting up PHPCS for WordPress Coding Standards

Running Different PHP Versions with Apache on Ubuntu

External links

Installing PHP 8.0 on MacOS: Overcoming Disabled Versions

Switching PHP versions when using Homebrew

brew unlink php@7.4
brew link php@8.2 --force --overwrite

Words I can never remember to spell correctly

unnecessary

necessarily

definitely

decision

exercise

calendar

Check Apache for startup errors

systemctl status apache2.service

Set default node.js version in nvm

nvm alias default 20

Set a local environment variable on MacOS

export VARIABLE_NAME=<value>

Latest Posts

  • The state of WordPress developer tools survey results

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    About two months ago I asked folks to complete the state of WordPress developer tools survey. I had planned to post the results about a week after the survey closed, but a trip to WCEU and another to my team meetup in the US delayed that post. Additionally, I was finding it hard to find…

  • Asus ROG Ally Average User Review: Part One

    I’ve always played video games for fun. From my first experience with Advanced Dungeons and Dragons on my uncle’s Intellivision console to my last run-through of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order (4th time now and counting), video games are a hobby that I’ll happily spend hours and hours on, with no other reward than the…

  • The VSCode extensions I use to make it more like PhpStorm

    I’ve been using PhpStorm for about ten years now. Before that, I used Zend Studio, and before that I used Netbeans. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I was a Windows application programmer before I switched to web development, so I’ve always preferred feature-full IDEs to lightweight code editors…

  • 46

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    Today, I turned 46. I’m now officially on the wrong side of the downward slope towards 50. 🤣 In the past, I’ve always blogged about how I feel about turning another year older. This year, I want to share what I did on my birthday. I took the day off and spent it with my…

  • Testing out the WP Playground Interactive Code Block

    Update: the Interactive Code block has been deprecated and replaced with the new WordPress Playground Block, so all the examples in this post no longer work. I hope to update the use of this block in the near future. So if you attended the final keynote at WCEU you would have seen the WP Playground…

  • Jonathan goes to WordCamp Europe: 2023 edition

    It has been three years since I was last at WordCamp Europe, and so I was excited and a little nervous as to how I would handle seeing my WordPress people again. Suffice it to say, my fears were unfounded, as I spent 4 and a half glorious days catching up with old friends, making…

  • Please take the state of WordPress developer tools survey

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    Update: The survey is now closed, and I will be publishing the results next week the results have been published. In my work as a sponsored contributor to Learn WordPress, I often need to consider the environment that developers are working on. Are they using macOS, Windows, or a Linux distro? Do they use a…

  • Are you attending WCEU 2023?

    If you’re planning to attend, and would like to connect, please comment on the post.

  • My WordPress Origin Story

    This year, WordPress turns 20. To celebrate, the folks in the Marketing Team are running a 20 Days to Celebrate 20 Years of WordPress, From Blogs to Blocks campaign. For day 1, one of the prompts is: What is your WordPress origin story? Hello, world! My journey to WordPress was tied to my journey of…