Laragon makes local development on Windows incredibly simple, automatically creating local domains like myproject.test with HTTPS already configured. But sometimes you need your local site to pretend that it is a real production domain.
This article explains how to make Laragon locally respond to a real domain name, including creating a trusted SSL certificate, without making any changes to the live website.
Read more: Making Laragon Pretend to Be a Real Domain (Locally)
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For the last five or six years I have spent a week every summer in Athens with Nicholas Dionysopoulos. It isn't a conference, there is no agenda, and if anyone were watching us from a nearby balcony they would probably conclude that we were doing very little at all.
We spend hours talking about Joomla, eating far too much excellent food and, every now and then, sharing a beer or two. It has become something of a tradition, and one that I look forward to more and more each year.
I have a confession to make.
For as long as I can remember, I've been hiding things on websites. Not malware. Not tracking pixels. Not cryptocurrency miners. Little surprises.
Some people call them Easter eggs, but if you've ever sat through one of my presentations over the last fifteen years, you'll know I've always preferred hidden secrets. It just sounds more intriguing.
A while ago I wrote about why I use Laragon as my Windows development environment in my article, Laragon – The High Performance AMP Server for Windows.
Laragon does almost everything I want from a local development environment. It's fast, lightweight, easy to configure and, unlike some alternatives, it doesn't seem determined to consume every available system resource just because it can.
There was just one thing missing.
Most websites are perfectly content with the usual tools for emphasis: <em> for emphasis and <strong> for strong emphasis. But sometimes standard HTML simply doesn’t capture the tone you’re aiming for. Especially true when that tone is somewhere between mildly annoyed and theatrically unimpressed.
This tutorial explores a far more expressive option: a custom <sarcasm> element, designed to make your text lean backwards both visually and emotionally. Because sometimes <em> just isn’t passive-aggressive enough.
Let’s build a <sarcasm> element that looks like italic text… but emotionally leans backwards.
After careful consideration, several cups of tea, and absolutely no pressure whatsoever from anyone, I have decided to stand in the forthcoming by-election in Clacton to become a Member of Parliament.
Human beings have always achieved more when they work together.
Every great advancement, from scientific discoveries to engineering achievements, has been built on the knowledge, creativity, and experience of many people. Even the ideas we often associate with individuals are usually the result of countless influences, conversations, discoveries, and improvements made by others before them.
There are few things more annoying than trying to copy a code sample and discovering you've missed the first line or grabbed half the paragraph below it.
If you've ever written documentation, tutorials, or technical blog posts, you've probably watched someone struggle to copy one of your code examples. They carefully drag the mouse across the code, accidentally select a bit of surrounding text, paste it into their editor, and then wonder why it doesn't work.
Congratulations, you discovered a hidden secret!