- How to Simplify Docker Compose Files With YAML Anchors and Extensions
- Installation Using Docker on Production Server
- XLite is a tool to query Excel (.xlsx, .xls) and Open Document spreadsheets (.ods) as SQLite virtual tables. See the discussion on Hacker News
- From 204 requests per second to 480 with a single configuration change details how to tweak a PHP-FPM set up using
pm.staticandPHP OP Cache - OCRmyPDF can be used to add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF file. See the discussion on Hacker News where there is mention of [NAPS2] (https://www.naps2.com/), a Windows tool to scan and generate OCR'd PDFs
- DevToys is a Swiss Army knife for developers. It includes so many tools developers would use strange websites to do including JSON and SQL formatting, base64 encoding/decoding, and much much more. It is available from GitHub as well as the Microsoft Store
- Excel has a
Get Data from the Webfeature that can be used to import data such as tables. See https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/1549373680496656385 - Toggl is a time tracking tool
- AWS open sourced the AWS console design system using React components. https://cloudscape.design/
- The Good Car Company provide affordable Electric Vehicles in Australia by importing from abroad
- Managing Persistence for Docker Containers
- While reading about the discussion over Retool I found out about a similar open-source system called Budibase which looks like it could be really handy
- https://emysound.com/ uses the Audio/Video fingerprinting and recognition in .NET library
- ICMP, Ping, and Traceroute - What I Wish I Was Taught
- See the Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99 discussion on how to get the HEVC codec for free from the Microsoft Store.
- Composer Generator can be used to generate Docker Compose configurations on the fly as well as modify existing configurations
- LocalStack is a fully functional local cloud stack emulating AWS services. This allows you to develop and test your cloud and serverless apps offline.
- Why I built a dictionary app, with a discussion over on Hacker News. It turns out that Wordnote has been open sourced. There is also mention of NotificationDictionary for Android with the ability to look up a word from any app supporting text selection.
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built a quick app that uses gpt-3 to convert from English to RegEx so you don't have to waste time on stackoverflow: https://www.autoregex.xyz/ pic.twitter.com/PjaKY2glCo
— aarya (@gd3kr) July 8, 2022 -
CTRL + Shift + A to search your open browser tabs is the GOAT
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) July 15, 2022 -
TIL: https://github.com/username/.keys Provides that username's public key(s) configured on GitHub.I was wondering how Ubuntu / cloud-init could load your authorized_keys with only a public username. Pretty cool! pic.twitter.com/q8qgKklNdX
— Jim Angel (@JimmAngel) August 4, 2022 - More information is available from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16158158/what-is-the-public-url-for-the-github-public-keys/16158737#16158737
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Ever wished you got notified when an app is added to your Startup Apps list in Settings? That's a thing you can enable in Windows 11 😊 pic.twitter.com/wGqBDTSBjL
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) August 8, 2022 - This can be done by going to
System -> Notificationsand enablingStartup App Notification
- Android Basics in Kotlin course
- Android Basics with Compose course
- Architecture MAD Skills series wrap up
- Now in Android - a new, open source, real-world sample app, with the source over here. It's written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- How to Create a Perfect Repository Using Kotlin Exclusive Features
- Take your first steps with C#
- Apple Maps on the Web along with MapKit JS
- Windows Auto Dark Mode is an open source third-party app to automatically switch into light and dark mode. I wonder when Windows will natively support this. I did use it, but switched away as some apps didn't respond to the changes too well. No fault of this utility though.
- Latitude and Longitude Finder
- Execute command in timed intervals describes using the Linux
watchcommand to run something on a regularly timed interval. Useful when you're developing something and don't want to set up a cron job. - Take the pain out of git conflict resolution: use diff3
You can use Windows Sandbox to install non-Store Windows software you want to try without it mucking up your regular system. I use it to periodically backup all my iCloud Photos with iCloud for Windows that I really don't want all the time. https://t.co/Q3tWjUKlcY
— Hayden Barnes (@unixterminal) April 12, 2022 - Windows Sandbox Tutorial – How to Enable Sandbox On Windows
- Windows Sandbox configuration
- Symfony Console Component - Tips & Tricks
- 30 Days of PWA - Learning Series about Progressive Web Apps
- CI Pipelines for dockerized PHP Apps with Github & Gitlab
- asciinema - Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way
- GetHuman: Details how to bypass phone menus and get through to an advisor
- Webhook.site lets you easily inspect, test and automate (with the visual Custom Actions builder , or WebhookScript ) any incoming HTTP request or e-mail.
- Microsoft Editor is a spelling and grammar checker plugin for Chrome and Edge
- Containerizing a Symfony application
- Docker - Supervisor config for (PHP) workers
- localhost.direct allows you to set up your localhost with HTTPS (SSL) and sub-domain support
- My (free) Django monitoring stack for 2022 lists free services you can use to improve the monitoring and uptime of your site
- NIST Password Standards
- A Proper Server Naming Scheme has some ideas on how to go about naming your servers
- HWiNFO is a Windows app to display detailed information about your system. Includes data such as CPU temperatures
- Desk stretches to ease aches and pains
- Microsoft PWA-driven Widgets Explainer
- Docker Registry contains information about hosting your own registry using the open source Docker Registry
Today I lerned about the .env file in Docker compose. And the ${VARIABLE:?err} notation for triggering an error on missing environment variables will be helpful too.👏
— Richard Spindler (@oracle2025) June 11, 2022 - Wicked Blocks - 120+ Free Tailwind Components contains over 120 fully responsive component and blocks you can copy paste into your Tailwind projects
4. Make PrintScreen take a snip Ever wished that PrintScreen did the same thing as WIN + Shift + S? Just enable this setting, and if you press PrintScreen it will now prompt you for what region of the screen you'd like to copy to your clipboard pic.twitter.com/iHGSym03ZA
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) May 15, 2022 - Build your first Power Automate for desktop flow
- PHP Cron Scheduler
- SchedulerBundle is a Symfony bundle built to schedule/consume repetitive tasks
- Build mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI
- Simply Static is a Wordpress plugin to generate a static site
- Markdoc is a Markdown system designed at Stripe to power their documentation
- Traefik Proxy 2.x and Docker 101
- Mitmproxy2swagger allows you to automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs. See the discussion over on Hacker News.
- You can create a great looking website while sucking at design, along with the discussion over at Hacker News.
- Dead Man's Snitch allows you to monitor your cron jobs to ensure that they are indeed running. See the discussion over on Hacker News where they mention https://healthchecks.io/, https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma, and https://torsion.org/borgmatic/.
- How to Simplify Docker Compose Files With YAML Anchors and Extensions
- Storing Business Hours in a Database
- Stoplight Studio is a cross-platform GUI application for creating OpenAPI specifications. I have been using it for creating an API for a personal project, and it seems to work well.
- Using PostgreSQL I had a need to Return pre-UPDATE column values using SQL only and learned about the
RETURNINGkeyword. I have implemented this in my codebase and reliably get back the pre-updated values. In my instance I was wanting to return the original price of an entry I had just updated. - I am trying out Git Credential Manager in Windows and WSL2. I have set it up, but have not yet had a need to use it.
- AWS Vault is a tool to securely store and access AWS credentials in a development environment. I do not currently use AWS services, but this would likely be useful at the day job.
- James Seconde had a talk at PHP UK Conference 2022 entitled "From Betamax to VCR: harden your API integration testing." in which he talks about using PHP-VCR to record and playback API queries. This is a PHP implementation of the popular Ruby VCR library.
- I watched the Postman Beginner's Course - API Testing course which taught me a very useful tricks about Postman. Who knew it had an entire testing system built into it? The initial few chapters are quite basic, but I was very interested in the "Introduction to Test Automation" chapter. This led me to Newman the cli companion for Postman.
- How to Troubleshoot Any Problem has some excellent tips, especially to slow down and ask for help
- Intel Virtualization and Apple Silicon
- U34P2C 34" WQHD Monitor with IPS and KVM
- DSM 7 - Plex Media Server - Release Info & Migration instructions
- myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox: Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Feeling hot and bothered? It’s not the humidity, it’s the dew point
It seems that the last time I listed links was back in 2013, so it's time to resurrect this. At least this way I can manage to keep my Instapaper list manageable.
- @JenMsft lists her favourite Windows hotkeys. I certainly learned a good bit such as clicking on an icon while holding down Ctrl & Shift launches it in elevated mode.
- @partytimeHXLNT details how to switch off text suggestions in VSCode. It's "Editor > Suggest: Show words"
- On Windows you can
| clipto send output to the clipboard. @unixterminal points out that you can use| clip.exevia WSL to do the same thing. - FalsiScan can make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
- Build your first WinUI 3 app using the Windows App SDK - part 1, 2, and 3
- Docker + WordPress Setup details how to set up and use WordPress from within Docker
- @tonysmdev had a tip on how you can override some form's attributes from a button with things like
button[formaction],button[formmethod], and more. Originally sourced from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#attr-formaction - The post on Obscure HTML Tags taught me a few things such as the details tag. A good few things there that might mean you no longer need a framework for some of it.
- Advanced settings configuration in WSL using
wsl.conf(Distribution specific in WSL1 and WSL2) and.wslconfig(WSL2 Global) - Configuring SSH access into WSL 1 and WSL 2
- @crepels has developed a playground for systemd over at https://systemd-by-example.com/. The announcement blog post is at https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-the-playground/.
- If you're using a Lenovo laptop then you'll be used to using Lenovo Vantage to install BIOS and driver updates. @unixterminal noticed that the enterprise version is far less spammy. https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/hf003321
- @joel__lord has a tip about using
git switch.
TIL about
git switch.🤯Ever did a bunch of changes in a codebase, only to realize that you're working on
master?
git switch -c <new_branch>Creates a new branch and brings you local changes over.
- Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2
- PHP in 2022 details what is now possible using PHP 8.1 including enums and read-only properties
- Using Traefik to Route HTTP Requests to Multiple Docker Microservices
- Monitorian is a Windows monitor control app using the Display Data Channel/Command Interface Standard (DDC/CI).
- ngrok allows you to provide external access to localhost services such as a dev instance of your app
- How to Create a Markdown Blog in PHP With the Slim Framework using interesting things like
DirectoryIteratorandFilterIterator. - Finding or Recovering your WSL Data details how to recover your WSL2 instance after performing a System Reset. A useful tip is that the ext4 VHDX file is stored in a subfolder of
%LocalAppData%\Packages\such asAppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState - I initially found out about Tailscale via their How our free plan stays free blog post. They apparently offer a secure network that just works using a zero config VPN.
- Appwrite is a self-hosted alternative to Google Firebase
- Fastmail JMAP backup using Python
I recently experienced an issue where a freshly installed Windows 11 system was not going to sleep. It was a very similar set up in terms of software to my previous Windows 10 machine which did not seem to have any issues.
Searching online I found https://thegeekpage.com/fix-windows-10-sleep-mode-not-working-solved/ which led me to the extremely useful powercfg -requests command. Using this I noticed a WSL entry for msrdc.exe. I guessed that this must have had something to do with Microsoft Remote Desktop connection - but from Linux.
Armed with this I was able to find https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/380 whose title of "Displays do not go to sleep when WSLg is enabled" summed up my problem.
As I did not need WSLg support in WSL2 I followed https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/380#issuecomment-939187821 to disabled it. A reboot later and all sleep issues were resolved. Hopefully the original issue is resolved before I would like to use GUI applications in WSL2.