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

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

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What’s so different about DDEV?

Oct 30, 2022 7 min read

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Beware of Dirty Pipes and Docker Desktop on Windows!

Jun 4, 2022 3 min read

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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

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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

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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 2 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

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DDEV and PhpStorm Debugging with WSL2

Jun 17, 2020 4 min read

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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

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Controlling CMS Settings Files in DDEV

Apr 16, 2020 3 min read

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Customizing DDEV images with a custom Dockerfile

Apr 7, 2020 3 min read

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DDEV Database Management

Apr 3, 2020 4 min read

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Ten more ways to increase your efficiency with DDEV

Mar 25, 2020 3 min read

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

Mar 17, 2020 5 min read

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

Aug 13, 2019 3 min read

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DDEV Trusted HTTPS Certificates

May 23, 2019 2 min read

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DDEV Automated Testing

Apr 4, 2019 2 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

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Debugging Docker on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Oct 18, 2018 5 min read

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How to set up a Mac development environment with DDEV

Jun 14, 2018 3 min read