When setting up a local development environment, sometimes you want to actually send real email. If you’re using WordPress, you can install a plugin to run your mail through an SMTP server. But if you’re running anything through the command line or you want to use the built-in PHP mail() function for any reason, then it’s really nice to be able to actually send mail.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to set up Postfix to send email through your Gmail or G Suite account. I wouldn’t suggest sending a bunch of mail like this, but for the occasional needs that arise where you need to send out a few emails while working on a project, this is great.
For years I’ve been using wildcard subdomains for local development rather than having to set up virtual hosts every time I want to spin up a new site. I was using a combination of nginx and dnsmasq to bring it all together. I’d use dnsmaq to make all calls to any subdomain on my development URL point to 127.0.0.1. I’ve been using 
There are plenty of screen recording options for Ubuntu. I use 
I’ve seen several tutorials on how to record phone calls with Audacity, but they all seem to be for using Audacity on Windows or Mac. So, here’s how you do it on Ubuntu. I’m using Ubuntu 16.04. It’s not all that hard once you see how it works. The complicating factor is that you want to record BOTH your mic AND your system audio at the same time. I’m going to show you how to use Google Hangouts to make a phone call and record the audio. Here’s how it works.
One of the things I really like about using Chrome on Linux is the ability to turn any website into a Desktop-ish App. It’s technically still a web app, but it opens in its own window without a location bar or any of the other decorations you normally see in a web browser. So it looks like a desktop app. I’ve done this with a bunch of different sites including 
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I’ve been using Ubuntu for a long time and have been lamenting the sad state of autokey and it’s relationship with Firefox and Thunderbird. Autokey is also a little more than I even need. I just want a quick way to expand a text snippet into a longer chunk of text. For example, I want to type 
In an earlier post we talked about 
Writing WordPress plugins is great fun because you can build awesome stuff and share it with tons of people very easily. Getting started can be frustrating because there are so many different ways to organize your code and it’s hard to know what’s best for your project. In the next few posts, I’ll share some of the tips I use to code WordPress plugins so they are easy to understand and maintain.