I want to share my dev set up.

VS Code is my code editor of choice. ( Microsoft can make pretty good software if they want to. ) It has an incredible eco system of plugins for most likely everything you need. I’ll get to the plug-ins in a second.

VS Code

VS code out of the box comes with built in terminal, git integration and an easy settings system that you can adjust with a json file individually for each project.

Projects are organized by folders easy peasy, or you combine them in to workspaces to make it a bit harder to keep track, your choice.

PLUG-IN UNIVERSE

There is a plug-in for everything, well almost everything (Can’t connect it to my Coffee machine, yet ).

I usually work with WordPress so plugins for PHP, WP auto complete are installed. Also some popular WP plugins (Woo, ACF) have their auto complete plugins.

Of course every other programming language is supported with syntax highlighting and auto complete, either out of the box or via plugin.
I used the liquid plugin for Shopify development and it was as easy as expected.

There is a gazillion plugins for code formatting, linting etc. A Plugin to preview Markdown for readme files. Plugins to help with documentation etc. There are a lot of plugins you get the idea.

Then there are some more fancy things in VS Code like Live Share that lets other people work on your code. It is exceptionally easy and reliable.

AFTER I HIT SAVE

That where the fun starts. I’m lazy efficient, so we need to automate things.

Gulp is a task runner, when I save (or move the window focus to another program, which triggers an autosave) a scss is converted to css and injected via live local server so I see the change without constant reloading. Saving of PHP files triggers a page reload.

VS Code is also not done after save. It can execute commands after your save in in my case it throws the php file to PHP Code Beautifier and formats it according to WP coding standards or yells at me if I made a mistake.

It took some time to get to this set up and the VS Code power user helped a lot. He has the same birthday as I do and ran a special once so I bought it :-).

Did you know that you can search Google Books for any word and can plot a chart how this word is used over time?

 

Here is my last name. Some old stuff in there.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/interactive_chart?content=Loppnow&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=20&smoothing=7&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CLoppnow%3B%2Cc0

I’m not following german poltitics very closly anymore but this morning a guardian news article scrolled trough my newsfeed that instantly made my day.

The german vice – chancellor showed how to deal with interuptions from nazis during his campaign event.

I might have to get my voting by mail in order and vote for him just becuase of this 20 sec. clip.

 

 

My grandfather used to have a bunch of gladiolus in his garden when I grew up. I spend a lot of Summer’s at my grandparents and gardening was always a big thing to get more vegetables on the table. My grandfather had kind of a green thumb and I can’t recall a year when he hadn’t had potatoes, strawberries, apples, raspberries and other things going on in his garden. 

That’s the reason I plant gladiolus in front of my house. And now they are starting to bloom. 

Aothe Sailing video. I’m on the for Deck responsible for the late spinakcer take down around minute 36.

https://youtu.be/mx5cn4h3CUk

This is what I do during the summer on Wednesday nights.

In a further invasion of my privacy, that WordPress thing is now not only on my Phone, it is on my desktop as well. Works super easy and as expected right now. You clearly se the infleunec of the wordpress.com Admin interface

Small enhancment idea, if we could add multiple accounts (Client Blog & personal blog). That would be super cool.

I’m now a proud owner of aloppnow@protonmail.com

Proton Mail is an end to end encrypted E Mail service. It is free and promises to stay free.
Mobile Apps are in the planning, too.

For now it seems a very easy to use email service. All the encryption magic happens in the background, no need to handle keys, certificates or similar things.

You can request your invite here.