The ABC of getting your own website up and running
Even as a developer, from time to time you might get confused about the exact steps to take when you what to register a domain and create some…
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Kanext – a theme for kanboard and some usage tips
A while back, I have started using kanboard as a personal task manager. It was a close call between it and other open source solutions and it won…
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A tale about custom WhatsApp stickers
There are a lot of applications out there which help you create your own WhatsApp, both for Android and iOS. Today we will take a look at one…
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From Windows Home to Ubuntu Desktop
For a couple of years now, I have been using Docker for development. It is an amazing tool which highly improves the developer’s job. However, it does not…
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Saving your Windows 10 license
For quite some time now, I have been postponing the switch to some flavour of Linux on my laptop, due the the fact that it came with an…
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Windows 10, but with package managers
The command line is a wonderful tool, but I admit I haven’t paid too much attention to it in Windows. However, things are about to change.
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The Great Suspender – a productivity extension for Chrome
The Great Suspender is a plugin which promises to lower the memory usage for the chrome browser, when many tabs are open. In short, whenever a tab is…
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Trying the Brave browser
I have been trying the Brave browser for the two following reasons: People say it uses less resources than Chrome; It has some builtin protection against tracking; The…
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Mirroring your Android to your laptop – the easy way
I have been looking into a free/open source way of using a phone or tablet as a second monitor. During the research, I got to be more and…
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Building your `programming helper` pet server with docker, on ubuntu
Nowadays there are quite many tools out there to help the process of developing apps. To easily manage them, I decided to go with a docker-compose approach on…
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rbenv for ruby versions on macOS
It appears that though very popular, RVM overrides the cd shell command, which could lead to unexpected behavior.
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Setting `docker-compose` on fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install
In an effort for setting development tools in the most economical way (and also learn stuff about as much as possible), I am now trying to install docker-compose…
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