Building Backcast: Hit Pause | Tom McFarlin

[ad_1] On the whole, writing a post about other posts – aside being very meta – isn’t something I’m fond of doing. But here I am. At the beginning of this year, I started working on a podcast backup utility called Backcast and I’ve been documenting the project throughout the year in a series of […]

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Building Backcast, Part 6 | Tom McFarlin

[ad_1] TL;DR: I’m tired of writing code without consistent standards (I often work on code that changes between WordPress or PSR2) so this is how I installed PHP Coding Standards via Composer and a few extra extensions for the project. This also details how to automatically format the code on save. Adding PHP Coding Standards […]

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Building Backcast, Part 4 | Tom McFarlin

[ad_1] TL;DR: The private podcast account is set up but not yet recorded; I’m looking to do that sooner rather than later. I’m looking to possibly abandon exclusive Overcast support which I’ll briefly talk about. This article walks through the process of defining the conditions for unit testing and how I’ve decided to go about […]

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