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Reset OS X Dock Icons to Defaults
There's something amazing about receiving a new MacBook Pro for me. The new machine, unaffected by sins of installs past, gives me a fresh start to mess it up all over again. Of course with a laptop from your employer you probably can't just wipe things...
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Download YouTube Videos with youtube-dl
When preparing for the 8 hour flights to and from London, I knew I couldn't just code the whole time -- I needed some decent entertainment. One source of free, excellent entertainment is YouTube, but I had no desire to pay for internet on the flight.
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JavaScript sleep Function
The infamous
sleep, ordelay, function within any language is much debated. Some will say that there should always be a signal or callback to fire a given functionality, others will argue that sometimes an arbitrary moment of delay is useful. I say that to each their own...![Mercurial: Global .hgignore]()
Mercurial: Global .hgignore
I've worked with git for several years and one of my favorite git posts is Create a Global .gitignore which details how you can create a global
.gitignorefile to ignore certain useless files (think.DS_Store,node_modules, etc.) so that you aren't always adding the same files to every repository's...![Export and Import Patches with git]()
Export and Import Patches with git
Most of us that use git probably only have use GitHub -- thus is the popularity of their service. If you (or a parent project) don't use a service like GitHub, however, you'll need to export patches for review. Let's have a look at how to export a patch...
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Prevent Body Scrolling
One of my pet peeves with fixed or absolute positioned elements is the
<body>scrolling while you scroll the the positioned element. Have you ever tried scrolling a dialog and seeing the page scroll in the background? Awful user experience, bordering on embarrassing. Yikes. So what's the best way...![Respond to Prompt in Bash Script]()
Respond to Prompt in Bash Script
I work on a project that requires I frequently build and destroy a virtual machine. I don't enjoy having to do so but virtual machines can be notoriously difficult to prop up, especially when you have a complex app living within it. Manually typing the same commands over...
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Remove Spaces from File Names
Spaces in file names are a nightmare with the web; you deal with
%20and other nonsense when spaces are in file names. That's why when I receive images with spaces I cringe; I mean hell, dealing with spaces of file systems sucks too. Anyways, I use the...
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CSS user-select
In my quest to contribute to every Mozilla project possible, I spent some time last Friday making updates to Firefox DevTools. The JSON Viewer component needed some love so that was first on my list. While viewing the CSS for the JSON Viewer component, I saw something I...
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mix-blend-mode: multiply
One of my favorite interview questions is "how do you stay current on emerging front-end techniques and APIs?" I always get the standard "blogs" and "RSS" answers but rarely do I ever hear "from gurus on Twitter." I find that strange because I learn loads from Twitter...
