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

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

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Watch: DDEV New Casual Webhosting Feature

Dec 14, 2020 22 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

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Watch: DDEV on ARM64 Raspberry Pi

Nov 23, 2020 3 min read

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

Nov 18, 2020 4 min read

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Watch: DDEV, PhpStorm, and Xdebug Debugging

Aug 27, 2020 2 min read

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Watch: DDEV From Scratch with macOS

Aug 13, 2020 2 min read

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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 Catalina

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

Tightly-cropped screenshot of a browser at a `.ddev.local` project URL with a secure HTTPS connection

DDEV Trusted HTTPS Certificates

May 23, 2019 2 min read

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DDEV Automated Testing

Apr 4, 2019 3 min read

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

Dec 6, 2018 8 min read

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Getting started with DDEV and Composer

Nov 29, 2018 5 min read

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

Nov 20, 2018 3 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

Architectural photo of angular glass planes against a cloudy blue sky

How to set up a Mac development environment with DDEV

Jun 14, 2018 3 min read