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In preparation for the release of Sculpin 3 (the upcoming version of the static site generator that runs this blog and many others), I recently spent some time exploring how to tests for PHP projects on non-Linux operating systems using TravisCI.

I realized while working on the upcoming release that I was always running the app under OS X but the CI tests were always running under Linux. This was not ideal for a tool that was intended to run on any OS.

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A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with Chris Hartjes (aka The Grumpy Programmer) about unfinished hobby projects. His advice got me thinking about how many projects I've got "on the go", and how they often go completely forgotten for months at a time.

I wrote a list of all the ones I can remember. I even included some ones that I "cancelled" or closed down, because I still sometimes think about bringing them back.

When I was finished, the list had 27 items.

This post is about Hobby Project 13. And there's video.

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People sometimes talk about the Campsite Principle of coding, of taking the time to make things better for the person coming after you.

Well, I was recently doing some programming at an actual campsite, and let me tell you: there's only so much you can clean up as your battery winds down to zero.

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