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January 2, 2023January 2, 2023Mac, Servers, Tips

Start Homebrew Installed Version of NGINX When macOS Boots

If you want to start NGINX on system bootup you can use Homebrew‘s handy service command. After NGINX is added to the […]

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December 15, 2022December 15, 2022Mac, PHP, Tips

The M1 macOS Bash PHP Functions I Use

I have several bash functions that come in handy every day when working in PHP on my M1 Mac. Enjoy!

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December 6, 2022December 6, 2022Shopify, Tech, Tips, Web

How To Add Google Customer Reviews to Shopify Checkout

To add Google Customer Reviews to your Shopify site, you need to take serval steps within Google Merchant Center and Shopify.

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December 6, 2022December 6, 2022Shopify, Tech, Tips, Web

How To Install GA4 On Shopify Using Customer Events, Pixels, and GTM

To add Google Analytics 4 to the Shopify checkout process using customer events with a custom pixel, use the code snippet on this page.

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July 7, 2022August 3, 2022Servers, Tips

How to automatically restart Apache/Nginx service when your website goes down using CRON

If you need to do some very basic heartbeat checks on a basic web server, Apache or nginx, and automatically restart the server when you no longer receive 200 responses this simple CRON script might be what you need.

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February 15, 2022February 8, 2022Servers, Tech, Tips

Change File & Folder Permissions In Bulk on macOS

To change file and folder permissions on macOS in bulk use the find command. In terms of the ideal permissions, the following […]

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February 8, 2022February 10, 2022Mac, Tips, Video, Web

Convert MP4 to WebM Lossless on macOS

To convert MP4 to WebM video on macOS, install FFmpeg using Homebrew. Step 1: Install Homebrew. Step 2: Install FFmpeg. Step 3: […]

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December 28, 2021February 1, 2022WordPress, PHP, Tips, Web

Log PHP Data In WordPress To Your Browser’s Console

Debugging PHP can be a pain in WordPress. Add this handy code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file. The function will log PHP data to your browser’s console.

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December 21, 2021February 1, 2022Thought, Leadership, Marketing, Tech, Tips, Web

Don’t Trust The Numbers!

As developers, we can’t trust raw data about people. Yet for some reason, when we see stats and figures from studies about people we tend toward blind faith in them.

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