Randy Fay

Randy loves dueling with computers and his career has spanned Apple ][ home automation, Unix/Linux kernel driver development, Windows, Drupal, and loads of fun system administration and DevOps work. After years of Drupal work he’s delighted to be working on DDEV-Local, which provides an easy way to do web development locally.

Randy’s Posts

Nancy Lewis winter scene painting

DDEV February 2025 Newsletter

Feb 10, 2025 5 min read

Futuristic view of DDEV 2025 plans

DDEV 2025 Plans

Feb 8, 2025 5 min read

Mount Garfield over Palisade, Colorado, 2025-01-07

DDEV January 2025 Newsletter

Jan 6, 2025 3 min read

The Open Source Pledge and DDEV: A Path to Sustainability

Jan 6, 2025 3 min read

DDEV + Platform.sh

Changes in Platform.sh Funding of DDEV

Jan 6, 2025 2 min read

Improved MySQL 8.0 import times in v1.24.2+

DDEV's Database Support Gets MySQL 8.4 and Better Import Speeds

Jan 2, 2025 4 min read

Nancy Lewis painting of Colorado River near Palisade, Colorado

DDEV December 2024 Newsletter

Dec 3, 2024 3 min read

DDEV Release v1.24.0 with PHP 8.4.1 and all extensions

Dec 2, 2024 4 min read

DDEV Usage of each environment

DDEV Live Usage Statistics

Nov 5, 2024 5 min read

Windows, DDEV, Ubuntu logos demonstrating setting up a Windows machine for DDEV.

Setting up a Windows Machine for DDEV

Nov 4, 2024 4 min read

Palisade, Colorado, USA, November 1, 2024

DDEV November 2024 Newsletter

Nov 1, 2024 4 min read

Detective Inspector studying GitHub tests

Contributor Training: Tmate for Debugging GitHub Actions Workflows

Oct 23, 2024 5 min read

DDEV v1.23.5 release announcement

Release v1.23.5: Auto Port Assignment, Auto Timezones

Oct 17, 2024 3 min read

Using `ddev debug test` to support others

Contributor Training: Using `ddev debug test` to support others

Oct 12, 2024 2 min read

Mount Garfield above Palisade

DDEV October 2024 Newsletter

Oct 1, 2024 3 min read

Mentors on Contribution Day at DrupalCon Barcelona

DrupalCon Barcelona Wrap-up

Oct 1, 2024 6 min read

abstract view of DDEV automated tests

Contributor Training: Maintaining DDEV Automated Tests

Sep 18, 2024 6 min read

Elephant walking backwards, 'backing up'

Backing Up DDEV Projects

Aug 10, 2024 3 min read

Stas Zhuk, DDEV Maintainer

Let's Fully Fund Maintainer Stas

Aug 1, 2024 3 min read

a banner image showing a carved stone image being maintained by a number of workmen

Contributor Training: DDEV Docker Image Maintenance

Jul 30, 2024 5 min read

Add-on puzzle pieces

Contributor Training: Advanced Add-On Techniques

Jul 23, 2024 5 min read

DDEV and Docker Healthchecks (Tech Note)

DDEV and Docker Healthchecks (Tech Note)

Jul 22, 2024 6 min read

Contributor Training: Traefik Configuration

Jul 8, 2024 6 min read

DDEV Container Architecture

Contributor Training: DDEV Docker Architecture

Jun 18, 2024 5 min read

MariaDB Dump (mysqldump) Breaking Change

Jun 14, 2024 4 min read

DDEV and Xdebug: Debugging and sorting out problems

May 28, 2024 5 min read

Golang Gopher teaching Go

Debugging Golang (Go) Applications

May 17, 2024 4 min read

Platform.sh Booth With "Proud Sponsor of DDEV" block

DrupalCon Portland 2024 Wrapup

May 14, 2024 4 min read

Stealthy xz backdoor attempts to infect the internet

Was DDEV Affected by the xz Backdoor?

Apr 3, 2024 4 min read

DDEV receives 501(c)(3) status from US Government

DDEV Foundation gets US nonprofit status (501(c)(3))

Mar 31, 2024 1 min read

Hostname resolution with DDEV

Hostnames and Wildcards and DDEV, Oh My!

Mar 28, 2024 8 min read

2024 DDEV Plans

DDEV Project 2024 Plans

Mar 3, 2024 4 min read

A DDEV 'tip of the day' saying 'DDEV's goal is to make developers happy. We hope you're happy today.'

DDEV Project 2023 Review

Feb 29, 2024 6 min read

Randy Fay and wife Nancy on loaded tandem bicycle

What? Randy's going biking in Patagonia?

Dec 1, 2023 3 min read

Cartoon race with three whales competing in a running race

macOS Docker Provider Performance, November 2023

Nov 30, 2023 3 min read

Cartoon whale in a shipping container labeled ‘Docker’

New DDEV Docker Providers for macOS

Nov 29, 2023 5 min read

Contributor Training: DDEV Analytics with Amplitude

Oct 31, 2023 2 min read

Stas Zhuk, DDEV Maintainer

Introducing New DDEV Maintainer Stas Zhuk

Oct 24, 2023 4 min read

Contributors working together on DDEV

Expanding the DDEV maintainer team - how we'll fund it

Sep 28, 2023 5 min read

How to Give and Get Community Support

Aug 24, 2023 3 min read

Intel and Apple on Apple Silicon

DDEV on Intel... on Apple Silicon

Aug 23, 2023 3 min read

Contributors working together on DDEV

DDEV Contributor Live Training

Jul 9, 2023 3 min read

Aaron Winborn Award

Drupalcon Pittsburgh Wrapup

Jun 12, 2023 3 min read

Image of a diverse group of maintainers sitting at a table maintaining DDEV

We’re Recruiting Project Maintainers

May 21, 2023 4 min read

Bar chart depicting Drupal 10 install time, in seconds, with various configurations on an M1 Mac

DDEV macOS Docker Desktop/Colima/Mutagen Benchmarking updated Dec 2022

Dec 27, 2022 5 min read

DDEV and Docker logos side by side, with the words “and/or” between them

Why use DDEV instead of rolling your own Docker-based local dev solution?

Dec 22, 2022 3 min read

AI-generated planetscape with faint Lando, Mamp, Docksal, DDEV, and Local logos

What’s so different about DDEV?

Oct 30, 2022 7 min read

Close-up photograph of two wonderfully-worn wrenches clamped onto a pipe that’s floating in mid-air

Beware of Dirty Pipes and Docker Desktop on Windows!

Jun 4, 2022 3 min read

Platform.sh marketing illustration, a collage of stylized website elements interspersed with branch and deployment references

Platform.sh becomes a Lead Sponsor of DDEV!

May 27, 2022 3 min read

Docker Desktop Alternatives Arrive for DDEV (Colima!)

Mar 25, 2022 3 min read

Chart depicting Drupal 9 install times without NFS, with NFS, and with Mutagen on macOS, Windows, and Linux

Supercharge your DDEV performance with Mutagen

Jul 28, 2021 4 min read

Screen grab of video’s title frame

Watch: DDEV New Casual Webhosting Feature

Dec 14, 2020 3 min read

Photograph of a sea of people juggling, with very little of a field visible between legs and a blue sky filled with all kinds of objects

Moving CMS sites around (server-to-server, server-to-local, local-to-server)

Dec 8, 2020 7 min read

Screen grab of video’s title frame

Watch: DDEV on ARM64 Raspberry Pi

Nov 23, 2020 2 min read

ARM64! Apple Silicon! M1! DDEV! What does it all mean?

Nov 18, 2020 4 min read

Still from video title matching this post, with the subtitle “No fiddling. No configuration. No php.ini”

Watch: DDEV, PhpStorm, and Xdebug Debugging

Aug 27, 2020 2 min read

Screen grab of video’s title frame

Watch: DDEV From Scratch with macOS

Aug 13, 2020 2 min read

Screen grab of video’s title frame

Watch: DDEV from scratch with Windows WSL2

Aug 6, 2020 2 min read

Tightly-cropped screenshot of step-debugging in progress with PhpStorm, with source code in one pane and debug variables in another

DDEV and PhpStorm Debugging with WSL2

Jun 17, 2020 4 min read

Partially-redacted terminal screenshot of macOS signing process, with emphasis on “Package Approved”

Open source collaboration: signing_tools for macOS

May 13, 2020 2 min read

Photograph of Randy’s Chromebook where DDEV’s busy running a triumphant Composer install.

DDEV, Docker, Chromebook!

May 4, 2020 5 min read

Screenshot of a browser with a TYPO3 install in progress, with emphasis on a button that reads “No problems detected, continue with installation”

Controlling CMS Settings Files in DDEV

Apr 16, 2020 3 min read

Tightly-cropped screenshot of a Dockerfile in an IDE.

Customizing DDEV images with a custom Dockerfile

Apr 7, 2020 3 min read

Tightly-cropped screenshot of phpMyAdmin running on a `.ddev.site` domain in a browser window

DDEV Database Management

Apr 3, 2020 4 min read

Extreme closeup screenshot of a browser with a `.ddev.site` emphasizing “Connection is secure”

Ten more ways to increase your efficiency with DDEV

Mar 25, 2020 3 min read

Cropped browser screenshot of a site, emphasizing the `.ngrok.io` domain name

DDEV share: Sharing a DDEV project with other collaborators in real time

Mar 17, 2020 5 min read

Screenshot of a terminal window, with emphasis on “oh my zsh is now installed!”

How to use DDEV custom commands and other goodies to add zsh

Aug 13, 2019 3 min read

Screenshot of a browser showing a DDEV project with a secure HTTPS connection

DDEV Trusted HTTPS Certificates

May 23, 2019 2 min read

Cropped screenshot of GitHub checks running

DDEV Automated Testing

Apr 4, 2019 2 min read

Top-down photo of the numbered lanes on a running track

Eight (more) ways to get the most out of DDEV

Dec 6, 2018 8 min read

Shallow-focus close-up photo of annotated sheet music

Getting started with DDEV and Composer

Nov 29, 2018 5 min read

Back up DDEV databases quickly and easily on the command line.

Save-as-you-go and make backups in a jiffy with DDEV

Nov 20, 2018 4 min read

Close-up, shallow-focus photo of a switch board with colorful knobs and wires

Debugging Docker on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Oct 18, 2018 5 min read