Why is Shopware 6's administration watch so slow?

Have you ever experienced this? You are developing a Shopware 6 project and need to rapidly iterate some JavaScript. So you're using bin/watch-administration.sh and you're seeing all API requests slowing to a crawl - from a couple of milliseconds to multiple seconds. And you're probably wondering why that…

Local PHP development environment with macOS, Homebrew and Caddy

I have been trying out a new development environment, because I was dissatisfied with both MAMP Pro's performance and Docker for Mac's performance when running PHP applications locally. I have been using these setups for a couple of years and was wary of trying a manually managed stack of a…