OLIVIER Z. olivsinz

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

You should not use the Open SSH client that comes with Git for Windows. Instead, Windows 10 has its own implementation of Open SSH that is integrated with the system. To achieve this:

Start the ssh-agent from Windows Services:

Type Services in the Start Menu or Win+R and then type services.msc to launch the Services window;
Find the OpenSSH Authentication Agent in the list and double click on it;
In the OpenSSH Authentication Agent Properties window that appears, choose Automatic from the Startup type: dropdown and click Start from Service status:. Make sure it now says Service status: Running.

Configure Git to use the Windows 10 implementation of OpenSSH by issuing the following command in Powershell:

git config --global core.sshCommand C:/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe

	<?php

	/**
	*
	*/
	trait Uniquable
	{
	// this function can create a unique alphanumeric string. To create a
	// unique string contains letter and number (alphanumeric) with the character limit $limit. These kinds of
	// unique string can be used as Voucher Code, Referral Code, Coupon Code, OTP or any kind of Promotional Code.

	# .github/workflows/fix-php-cs.yml
	on:
	pull_request:

	name: Coding Standards

	jobs:
	open-pr-for-cs-violations:
	name: PHP-CS-Fixer
	runs-on: ubuntu-20.04

	{
	"preset": "per",
	"rules": {
	"align_multiline_comment": true,
	"array_indentation": true,
	"array_syntax": true,
	"blank_line_after_namespace": true,
	"blank_line_after_opening_tag": true,
	"combine_consecutive_issets": true,
	"combine_consecutive_unsets": true,