Posts

Books

• Book review: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
• Book review: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
• Book summary: Faith vs Fact by Jerry Coyne

CSS

• How to create a sticky footer with Flexbox

Docker

• Start interactive bash session in Docker image
• One-liner to remove all Docker containers

Front-end

• A few tools to make life easier as a Front-end developer
• Deploying static sites with Netlify

JavaScript

• How to check how many times a character occurs in a string in JavaScript
• How to check if a JavaScript array has duplicate elements
• How to easily get a random boolean in JavaScript
• A brief look at Web Workers
• My experience with Gatsby.js

Life

• A little poem I want to share

Memories

• How I created my first website back in 2004

MySQL

• Create MySQL database back ups using mysqldump
• Passwordless MySQL authentication with mysql_config_editor

Nginx

• How to install Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04
• How to setup Nginx server blocks
• How to add HTTPS to an Nginx website hosted on Digital Ocean

PHP

• Using .env variables in PHP

Rails

• How to seed test databases in Rails
• How to add Rubocop to a Rails project
• How to deploy a Rails 6 app on Ubuntu 18.04
• A quick way to check your Rails database schema
• A little Rails console trick to make you smile
• How to skip unwanted generators in Rails
• How to implement a save / favourite functionality in Rails
• Common Rails database CLI commands
• How to quickly re-seed your Rails database
• How to login a user in Capybara tests when using Devise
• Rendering different layouts in Rails depending on whether the user is logged in

Regex

• How to find consecutive characters with Regex

Ruby

• How to add Git hooks to a Ruby project using Overcommit
• How to run a specific RSpec test
• How to quickly lookup Ruby documentation
• Building a Sinatra app in 5 minutes
• How to check for palindromes in Ruby

Unix

• Copy files between Linux machines with rsync
• Find files or folders in path from the terminal
• How to toggle your WiFi using the Ubuntu terminal
• How to increase the keyboard speed on Ubuntu
• Install Notion on Ubuntu
• Use grep to quickly count occurrences of a string in a file
• A quick overview of Cron jobs