Yes you can do it in the root config.php file, but you’ll run into issues when you try to provision with tools like the great SequelPro Connector.

Been dealing with a persistent hack thing on a few sites I manage. I think I keep getting closer to a full solution when things happen. Here are a few steps I’ve taken to try and get this sorted.

Needed to connect Chassis to SequelPro this morning. Remembering jumping through hoops to figure it out when I used VVV, but seems that Chassis has an easy SequelPro connector.

At one point this year I spent 6 months on Linux and the biggest problem was software lock in. Not Linux software lock in, but macOS lock in.

Needed to clean up a client server recently that had 10GB of ‘stuff’ somewhere on the server. Since I had SSH access this was actually super easy. Use:

I love me some VVV, it’s been my default development environment for a while.

The biggest hurdle for most people changing operating systems is the applications that are available. If you love Microsoft Word and want to try Linuk, you’re out of luck.

Back on macOS I was an avid iTerm2 user which doesn’t exist on Linux, but there are options.

Here I am writing in Vim and my terminal freezes. Like many people I’m at least partially programmed to press Ctrl + S to save a file. Seems in Pantheon (and many other terminal applications) this actually stops the screen output of the terminal.

Coming from MacOS I was a long time user of iTerm2. It just worked like I expected which meant that switching to ElementaryOS presented a few issues.

When I do a major revamp of a site I regularly take a screenshot of what it was originally and then what I’ve changed it to.

Coming to Elementary OS from OSX means that you must give up many of the great Markdown editors available for Apple’s platform. Applications like Byword and AI Writer simply don’t run on the Linux platform.

Yes if you want to install Dropbox on ElementaryOS you can use the standard Ubuntu .deb file. Of course it will work, but you won’t have an icon that looks right. In fact, all you’ll get is a black square with a red cross through it.

While I loved Evernote for years I have continually felt that they were focusing on features that were of no use to me or to their core market at all. Then when they started heading down a road of looking in to my notes, I was gone.

While ElementaryOS is a derivative of Ubuntu, that doesn’t always mean it functions exactly the same out of the box.

One of the things that annoys me is when my laptop sleeps while I’m working. On OSX I used Caffeine to stop that from happening and had it autostart every time I booted the computer up.

It’s tiring to continually get asked for your SSH passphrase for every operation you do with SSH. But as with everything security related, you’re making a tradeoff between ease of use and security.

I’ll write a bit more about why I’m switching to Linux in the future, but for today I’m going to solve a problem with the tilde (~) key in ElementaryOS.