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 of them.
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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 make very good friends with Windows Home, which was the OEM operating…
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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 OEM license. OEM stands for “original equipment manufacturer” and OEM License is…
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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. In an effort to ease the process of reinstalling the apps I use in…
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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 not used, it changes into a “suspended” state. I have been using…
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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 lion logo is really cool 🙂
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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 more open to the idea of using a mirroring app.
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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 a VPS running ubuntu.
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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 on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 instance. At the end, an nginx is…
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Hosting websites on my own VPS
This is actually an ongoing project. It started as a necessity, but with time and hosting services getting cheaper and cheaper, it advanced with curiosity. I learnt about Linux, with users and groups, services, servers, package managers. I also made…
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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 processes, using CI/CD pipelines. Even if not necessarily in my field of…
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