Jason McCreary — I build things with my hands

Every year I make goals. Most of my goals are focused on work, but I do squeeze a few personal goals in as well. Last year I publicized my 2018 Dev Goals. So, before talking about my 2019 goals, let’s lookbehind at 2018.
2018 Goals
✅ Write a book

Lately I’ve been preparing to start building a new SaaS product called Optionality. I thought it’d be good to not just talk about the code, but also the product decisions and marketing involved in building a product.
So in this first post, I want to start at the very beginning. This is important because I rarely start with writing code. As developers, when we think of an idea we get lost in the technical details. We start pre-architecting, scaling out servers, and...

Note: This post assumes you followed installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X Sierra and have since upgraded to macOS Mojave. If you did not follow the original post, you should follow installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on macOS Mojave.
When Mac OS X upgrades it overwrites previous configuration files. However, before doing so it will make backups. The backup files often have a suffix of previous or pre-update. Most of the time, configuring your system after updating Mac OS X is simply...

Note: This post is for new installations. If you have installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL for Mac OS Sierra, read my post on Updating Apache, PHP, and MySQL for macOS Mojave.
I am aware of the web server software available for macOS, notably MAMP, as well as package managers like brew. These get you started quickly. But they forego the learning experience and, as most developers report, can become difficult to manage....