Saving your Windows license
For quite some time now, I have been postponing the switch to some flavor 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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
rbenv for ruby versions on macOS
It appears that though very popular, RVM overrides the cd shell command, which could lead to unexpected behavior.
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…
Steps towards automated development: Jenkins on Digitalocean
Recently – rather recently, as it has been happening around me for a few years now 🙂 – I have felt the benefits of automating repetitive tasks, build…
Taking the development of a Github hosted WordPress plugin from “old” to automatic
This article is about cristidraghici The content is about taking it from the form of a basic git project with many manual actions – yes, old is not…
Remove unwanted apps from older Android OS
Some time ago, after an (un ?) fortunate chain of events, I got my hands on an Alcatel Pixi 8079 – which has really-really low performance. This is…
Trying the new Twenty Nineteen theme
Most people who are interested in news about WordPress are quite curious about the new version (5.0.0) together with the new default theme (Twenty Nineteen). In just a…