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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Firefox Developer Edition is a specialized version of the Firefox browser, designed for developers and early adopters. It’s kind of a beta version, but with much more features. It comes with various tools, such as the Visual Editing, Debugging, an inspector that shows you details about the used CSS Grid, unused CSS and so on.
Short Interlude: The following problems and it’s solution seems to be an Ubuntu 22.04 issue, because that is when the new OOM service was introduced. Read on if your Ubuntu system closes applications when it seems to be overwhelmed by tasks and if it’s a 22.
One of GoHugo’s problems is, that the focus is mostly on speed. Simple HTML rules are prone to be ignored or freely interpreted (for instance, in the internal templates). But it offers ways to override and configure things, so not all is lost.