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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

Rattlesnake Arches, western Colorado

Community

DDEV May 2025 Newsletter

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Bridging Apple Silicon and Intel architectures.

DevOps

Solving Intel-only AMD64/X64 problems on macOS with Apple Silicon

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Nancy Lewis "My First Painting in Palisade"

Community

DDEV April 2025 Newsletter

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Randy at table doing first-time contributor mentoring.

Community

DDEV at DrupalCon Atlanta 2025

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Sample XHGui screen in new XHGui feature

Community

XHGui Feature Makes Profiling Even Easier

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Some of DDEV's sponsors via GitHub Sponsors

Community

Thanks to our Amazing Sponsors!

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Nancy Lewis "Palisade Vinelands"

Community

DDEV March 2025 Newsletter

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Open Source for the Win!

Community

Open Source for the Win!

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Nancy Lewis winter scene painting

Community

DDEV February 2025 Newsletter

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Futuristic view of DDEV 2025 plans

Community

DDEV 2025 Plans and 2024 Review

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

Community

DDEV January 2025 Newsletter

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Open Source Pledge Logo

Community

The Open Source Pledge and DDEV: A Path to Sustainability

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DDEV + Platform.sh

Community

Changes in Platform.sh Funding of DDEV

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Improved MySQL 8.0 import times in v1.24.2+

DevOps

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

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Nancy Lewis painting of Colorado River near Palisade, Colorado

Community

DDEV December 2024 Newsletter

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PHP Logo for PHP 8.4

Announcements

DDEV Release v1.24.0 with PHP 8.4.1 and all extensions

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DDEV Usage of each environment

Community

DDEV Live Usage Statistics

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

DevOps

Setting up a Windows Machine for DDEV

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Palisade, Colorado, USA, November 1, 2024

Community

DDEV November 2024 Newsletter

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Detective Inspector studying GitHub tests

Training

Contributor Training: Tmate for Debugging GitHub Actions Workflows

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DDEV v1.23.5 release announcement

Announcements

Release v1.23.5: Auto Port Assignment, Auto Timezones

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Using `ddev debug test` to support others

Training

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

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Mount Garfield above Palisade

Community

DDEV October 2024 Newsletter

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Mentors on Contribution Day at DrupalCon Barcelona

Community

DrupalCon Barcelona Wrap-up

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abstract view of DDEV automated tests

Training

Contributor Training: Maintaining DDEV Automated Tests

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Elephant walking backwards, 'backing up'

DevOps

Backing Up DDEV Projects

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Stas Zhuk, DDEV Maintainer

Announcements

Let's Fully Fund Maintainer Stas

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

Training

Contributor Training: DDEV Docker Image Maintenance

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Add-on puzzle pieces

Training

Contributor Training: Advanced Add-On Techniques

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DDEV and Docker Healthchecks (Tech Note)

TechNotes

DDEV and Docker Healthchecks (Tech Note)

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Traefik Configuration for DDEV

Training

Contributor Training: Traefik Configuration

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DDEV Container Architecture

Training

Contributor Training: DDEV Docker Architecture

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DevOps

MariaDB Dump (mysqldump) Breaking Change

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Xdebug logo

Training

DDEV and Xdebug: Debugging and sorting out problems

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Golang Gopher teaching Go

Training

Debugging Golang (Go) Applications

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

Community

DrupalCon Portland 2024 Wrapup

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Stealthy xz backdoor attempts to infect the internet

Community

Was DDEV Affected by the xz Backdoor?

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

Announcements

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

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Hostname resolution with DDEV

Guides

Hostnames and Wildcards and DDEV, Oh My!

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2024 DDEV Plans

Community

DDEV Project 2024 Plans

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

Community

DDEV Project 2023 Review

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Randy Fay and wife Nancy on loaded tandem bicycle

Community

What? Randy's going biking in Patagonia?

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Cartoon race with three whales competing in a running race

DevOps

macOS Docker Provider Performance, November 2023

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Cartoon whale in a shipping container labeled ‘Docker’

DevOps

New DDEV Docker Providers for macOS

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Training

Contributor Training: DDEV Analytics with Amplitude

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Stas Zhuk, DDEV Maintainer

Community

Introducing New DDEV Maintainer Stas Zhuk

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Contributors working together on DDEV

Community

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

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Training

How to Give and Get Community Support

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Intel and Apple on Apple Silicon

Guides

DDEV on Intel... on Apple Silicon

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Contributors working together on DDEV

Training

DDEV Contributor Live Training

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Aaron Winborn Award

Community

Drupalcon Pittsburgh Wrapup

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Community

We’re Recruiting Project Maintainers

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

Performance

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

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

DevOps

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

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

DevOps

What’s so different about DDEV?

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DevOps

Beware of Dirty Pipes and Docker Desktop on Windows!

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Announcements

Platform.sh becomes a Lead Sponsor of DDEV!

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Announcements

Docker Desktop Alternatives Arrive for DDEV (Colima!)

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

Announcements

Supercharge your DDEV performance with Mutagen

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Guides

Watch: DDEV New Casual Webhosting Feature

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Guides

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

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Announcements

Watch: DDEV on ARM64 Raspberry Pi

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Apple M1 logo and DDEV logo side by side

DevOps

ARM64! Apple Silicon! M-Series! DDEV! What does it all mean?

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Guides

Watch: DDEV, PhpStorm, and Xdebug Debugging

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Guides

Watch: DDEV From Scratch with macOS

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Guides

Watch: DDEV from scratch with Windows WSL2

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

Guides

DDEV and PhpStorm Debugging with WSL2

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DevOps

Open source collaboration: signing_tools for macOS

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

Guides

DDEV, Docker, Chromebook!

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Guides

Controlling CMS Settings Files in DDEV

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Guides

Customizing DDEV images with a custom Dockerfile

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DevOps

DDEV Database Management

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DevOps

Ten more ways to increase your efficiency with DDEV

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Guides

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

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Guides

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

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

Guides

DDEV Trusted HTTPS Certificates

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DevOps

DDEV Automated Testing

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DevOps

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

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Guides

Getting started with DDEV and Composer

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

Guides

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

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Guides

Debugging Docker on Windows, Mac, and Linux

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