Stop Tabbing. Start Using Your Monitor
OK, I admit, this one is going to be weird. So, buckle up… Tabbing feels like it costs a second. It doesn’t. It costs your train of thought.…
OK, I admit, this one is going to be weird. So, buckle up… Tabbing feels like it costs a second. It doesn’t. It costs your train of thought.…
TL;DR I’ll show you how to use macOS’s built-in caffeinate command to keep your Mac awake: until you stop it for a set amount of time, or only…
When espanso Breaks on Long Replacement Strings (and How to Fix It) Hey friends 👋 Today’s post is a quick one, but it might save you from a…
TL;DR Espanso is a text expander tool that will save you lots of repetitive typing. For real. Ever had to repeatedly type your email address into a form?…
TL;DR If you ever get an error that you can’t save a file in Visual Studio Code, and it prompts you to ‘Retry as Admin’ (where you then…
TL;DR A new phishing scam is targeting OpenSea users through email. Exercise caution and stay vigilant. !TL;DR I recently encountered an email that surprisingly bypassed my spam filters.…
⚠️ Disclaimer: This post isn’t sponsored—I’m just a fan of the product. I recently encountered a small hiccup (probably my own doing) with my Sparkly toy and wanted…
Setting up an automatic top-up is simple because it’s offered as an option when you, well, top-up. However, editing an existing one is actually not as straightforward as…
In this quick tip I’ll show you how simple it is to prevent js-beautify in Visual Studio Code to expand JSON object. Of course, for those who use…
In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to fully open any file after quick searching it in Visual Studio Code. When you do a quick search (⌘ +…
TL;DR you have to enter your Docker ID, and not your email address ? !Tl;DR In this quick tip, I’ll show you (and help me remember forever and…
This is a quick tip on how to hide the minimap in Visual Studio Code. In case you’re wondering why someone would like to do this? The answer is…
This is a quick tip on how to format (prettify) the code every time you save a certain file in Visual Studio Code. First, go to: Code ->…
Remove MySQL server on a Mac The other day I wanted to run some project via Docker Compose. Surprisingly, the MySQL service defined normally like this: mysql: image:…
edit 14.4.2017: I made a 2.5k+ word post about Gitflow, Pull Requests and Code Reviews which goes way deeper in the topic. The post is here if you…
TL;DR: If your Apple Developer Program expires then your apps are taken off the App Store as well So the other day I got an email from Apple…
Ah, it was one of those days when you’re too smart for your own good and you don’t check the docs and falsely assume that m must definitely be…
To open current folder in Explorer from Command prompt on Windows use the following command: explorer . The dot (.) represents the current directory. This is usually useful for…
To open current folder in Finder from Terminal on Mac OS X use the following command: open . The dot (.) represents the current directory. This is usually…
As you may know, CodeProject has a thing called Technical blogs which lets you publish your post on their site too, and thus widening the range of potential…
When I was preparing this post I bought a domain just for testing purposes called nikola-dev.com and I wanted to have Node.js apps running on this VPS (behind a…
This is a straight to point short tutorial on how to set up NGINX as a reverse proxy in front of a Node.js application, and although this is not…
A video worth watching if you’re wondering how you should market your App. Also, a cool link I just stumbled upon today is the one on GitHub: App launch…
Lately I’ve been watching some videos from Vimeo and it really annoyed me that it doesn’t have a video playback speed increase option (since, well, you can listen…
I was testing Jenkins and as it doesn’t support localhost addresses I found Localtunnel, which, and I qote, allows you to easily share a web service on your local development…
You’ve all heard the news – Microsoft made a free editor for developers called Visual Studio Code. You can download it from the official page here. The cool thing…
While editing your post in WordPress in the Publish area on the right, next to Visibility click on edit and then check the “Stick this post to the front…
Recently I wanted to find out how to update field only if the updated value would be new (as in – different from the current one). After a…
CORS = Cross origin resource sharing – a pain in the butt when trying to do an ajax request when developing locally. For local testing I ended up using…
edit (18.06.2015): Nowdays I’m using PM2, and here’s my post that explains how to use PM2. Nodemon is a utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and…
As you can see in the featured image, to find unread emails in Gmail, just search for is: unread and you will get all of your unread emails. You…
I had to find some string inside one of the files, and I couldn’t remember in which file it was, classic 🙂 In linux, simple grep command would…
Say you have a field called date in your MySQL table and its type is timestamp (example: ‘2014-08-23 08:37:57’), and you want to get all the records for today (so,…
Due to its folder nesting Windows can’t delete the folder as its name is too long. To solve this, install RimRaf: npm install rimraf -g and delete the…
Whenever I opened some pdf file and scrolled with the mouse the scrolling was per one page. Sure, you can change this by going to View -> Page Display…
This has been haunting me for some time now – there’s just no Print Screen key on this keyboard which works on a Windows machine. If you take a…
So, if you have this in the code behind: if (System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens.Length >= Config.ScreenNumber) { System.Drawing.Rectangle screenBounds = System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens[Config.ScreenNumber – 1].Bounds; this.Left = screenBounds.Left; this.Top = screenBounds.Top; } And…
First you have to install NodeJS. You can do that via package manager for your distribution. In my case (RHEL) it is easily done with: sudo yum install nodejs…
All of a sudden my arrow keys stopped working – up and down keys scrolled the screen up and down, while left and right had no effect. I found the solution here and basically all that you…
If you’re using Console 2, and I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to btw, you probably wanted to customize it. Here is an excellent post by Scott…
If you clone your project on another computer and try to do: git push origin master and you get and error like: fatal: could not read Username for…
Nodemon is a utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server. Perfect for development. Install it using npm. npm install -g…
Since this is in the “quick tips” category I won’t go into what Sublime Text is, or why using JSHint is recommended, and that for it’s installation you…