Web Development

Oftentimes I discover that all the steps I need to do something on my local machine are split across various how-to guides or documentation pages. So I thought I'd collect them all in one place.

The basics

Whether I get a new machine or re-install system software from scratch for whatever reason, I start off with installing Xcode and its Command Line Tools:

xcode-select --install

and Homebrew.

After working in Drupal for close to 10 years, I thought I’d dip my toes into some of the “newer” content management systems out there. What a mistake that turned out to be.

My needs are simple, so I settled on Ghost because it was an open source product I could host myself with a good deal of out-of-the-box functionality.