My recent days were marked by the biennial (as in every two years) prematurely (I’ll explain that in a later post) installation of a new Ubuntu LTS (long term support) version. In 2022 I stopped “playing” around and jumping distributions and upgrading every 6 months to the latest release and saved plenty of time researching why things that worked fine before now stopped working.

Pushing a new branch to a repository’s remote often requires two attempts by the scatterbrained developer, but there is help in push.autoSetupRemote.

Workspaces are a great feature in VSCode. But they have their issues. For instance starting VSCode in a folder will not automatically load the workspace file. This can be annoying if you have a workspace file in the folder and you want to open it directly.

The .gitignore file in a Git repository serves as a configuration file that specifies files and directories that Git should — as the name implies — ignore. When Git encounters a file or directory listed in .gitignore, it automatically excludes them from being tracked, preventing them from showing up in commands like git status and git add.

GitHub recently introduced an innovative feature for Markdown documents that allows users to highlight “Note”, “Warning”, and other notification blocks more effectively. An enhancement useful for developers who want to draw attention to important information in their documentation or discussions.

A while back (about 15 months ago), I stopped using Twitter. At first, I thought I might delete my account, but then I realized that somewhere along the lines, Twitter has begun to enforce a “you have to have an account to watch this content” rule.

Every now and then my inbox in Github shows x total unread updates without having actual updates. When I click on it, there are no unread notifications. This is a known issue and it’s been around for a while. The notifications are called “ghost notifications” and they are not visible in the UI.

If you are like me you probably typed more than once git stash and meant git stash list while working on many different things at the same time. If not, then feel free to go somewhere else and don’t waste your time here :]

GoHugo’s documentation recently started to show functions and methods with their “real” name, instead of the alias used in the GoHugo codebase. Did you for instance knew that apply is actually collections.Apply and append is collections.Append? Knowing these exact names seems to be important to me, because I think it’s easier to understand what functions are connected and what features are available.

This is a quick and practical proof of concept of a “free” link redirection service, hosted on Netlify. I am using one of my domains to redirect to various URLs, to my own projects. The setup is simple and can be done in a matter of minutes.