According to Diogenes Laërtius, when Plato gave the tongue-in-cheek definition of man as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato’s Academy, saying, “Behold! I’ve brought you a man”, and so the academy added “with broad flat nails” to the definition.
A while back I started consolidating all my release scripts and ran into an issue, that on the second look is quite obvious to solve, but I still wanted to share it with you. You might run into situations, where you have scripts that are only relevant for certain builds or environments.
The download attribute for anchor (<a>) tags is a nifty feature that often flies under the radar but can significantly enhance the user experience on a website. This attribute, when added to an <a> tag, instructs the browser to download the resource linked by the anchor tag instead of navigating to it.
Today, I reworked my theme changer script from vanilla JavaScript to an Alpine.js-based component. This change cut down the code lines by 50%. However, initially, it didn’t work. The console error messages indicated that my theme switcher function was unrecognized. Intrigued, I decided to investigate.
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a powerful code editor, but occasionally, it may provide different functionality than you need out of the box. Just have a look at the open feature requests on Github, and you’ll see that many users have encountered situations where VSCode doesn’t deliver as expected.
In my projects, I often encounter situations where I need to update the version number of the project before making a release. I follow the Semantic Versioning (Semver) standard for versioning. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate how to retrieve the next Semver version number using a Bash script.
A while back (pre-COVID-19 era), I had the idea to create a GoHugo module that would allow me to create forms via configuration files. I also wanted to easily translate the form into different languages. I sketched out a solution but never got around to implementing it.
Despite its many advantages and nifty features of Git, there’s one feature it lacks: a status hook. In Git, hooks are scripts that I can execute automatically at specific points during the version control process. These hooks perform custom actions, such as running tests, enforcing coding standards, or sending notifications, at various stages like pre-commit, post-commit, and post-merge.
If you are like me, then you are probably using nvm to manage your node environments. I have a few projects that are using different node versions, and I have to switch between them from time to time. Sometimes then I forget having switched and type some globally installed npm command and end up, not having it installed in the current environment or not updated to the latest version.
Did you ever ask yourself why the sky is blue? Here is what you need to know: The color of the sky is a result of a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. Sunlight is composed of different colors of light, each with its own wavelength - just think of Pink Floyds album cover for The Dark Side of the Moon or the Rainbow flag.