I have been reading articles about the complexity of web design lately. I ran into version hell, which is one component of the complexity, headlong yesterday and thought it might be valuable to document my solution for someone trudging along in my footsteps.
I recently rebuilt my local computer with Ubuntu 16.04 and took the opportunity to clean up the crud that builds up. I have been slowly rebuilding my development tools taking care to make good choices about what I keep and what I throw out.