Dave Samojlenko

Technology

  • Choosing a Mastodon Server and Why You Shouldn’t Stress About It

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    dsamojlenko

    The average person’s experience of signing up for a social network thus far has been pretty straight-forward. When you join Twitter, you go to twitter.com and sign up, that’s it. You’re on Twitter. Or perhaps you download the app and sign up there. But beyond picking your username, there’s not much else in terms of…

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  • Mastodon and the Fediverse

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    dsamojlenko

    The great un-twittering is well underway. However you feel about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, many people are choosing to leave the platform under his leadership, or at least starting to explore alternatives. Enter Mastodon. Or, to use the more accurate nomenclature, the Fediverse. The Fediverse describes a broader network of services that are connected…

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  • PHP Caddy v1.3.4

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    dsamojlenko

    I just pushed out a new version of PHP Caddy today with a bugfix that should make it a lot more stable. I have been using PHP Caddy as my primary development environment on my PC at work for the last month or so.  At first it was wonderful – stable, fast, easy, as advertised.…

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  • Introducing PHP Caddy

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    dsamojlenko

    Here’s something I have been working on recently: PHP Caddy is a tiny PHP development environment for Windows, inspired by Laravel Valet. No hosts file, no configuration, no frills. Just run it and go write some code. Why? In a world where Homestead and Valet exist, this is a good question.  A couple things: 1)…

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