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About Dougal Campbell

Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.

Stupid Git Tricks | Hackaday

“If you are a dyed-in-the-wool software developer, you probably don’t need to be convinced to use Git. But even if you aren’t, there are a lot of things you can do with Git that don’t fit the usual mold.”

Stupid Git Tricks

Stupid Git Tricks | Hackaday

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

“In 1993, a Linux engineer found a nonintuitive case with load averages, and with a three-line patch changed them forever from “CPU load averages” to what one might call “system load averages.” His change included tasks in the uninterruptible state, so that load averages reflected demand for disk resources and not just CPUs. ”

A great bit of research explaining not just what “load average” means in general, but how and why Linux load averages are computed differently from other *nix systems.

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Bugs

I seem to have a knack for finding obscure edge-case bugs in WordPress. #wordpress #oembed https://t.co/aucCSDb76H

— Dougal Campbell ? (@dougal) August 28, 2017

A feature based approach to React development | Software Development Notes

In a component-oriented application, a suggestion that code should be organized by (more-or-less) stand-alone features, rather than layers of system architecture (authentication, database, ui, api, etc.)

http://ryanlanciaux.com/blog/2017/08/20/a-feature-based-approach-to-react-development/

A feature based approach to React development | Software Development Notes