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Software engineering and personal development

Month: March 2019

How to quickly take screenshots on your Mac

March 31, 2019 / / 0 Comments
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I take a lot of screenshots these days. Fortunately, I use a really handful shortcut that has saved me probably many hours until now from having to explain something with words to someone else. I hope these quick shortcuts will also be beneficial for you too.

I take a lot of screenshots these days. Fortunately, I use a really handful shortcut that has saved me probably many hours until now from having to explain something with words to someone else. I hope these quick shortcuts will also be beneficial for you too.

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Save countless hours from YouTube by hiding recommendations with this Chrome extension

March 24, 2019 / / 0 Comments
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I have already written about a really helpful Chrome extension that can be used to hide recommended videos on YouTube, but I wanted to write about it once again, as I want to emphasize something that may have slipped unnoticed in the first article. This Chrome extension does not hide recommended videos on the right side of the video that you are watching, but also on the homepage. I learned about it only a few months after I initially started using it and the reason for that is because you have to manually go and turn on this option for yourself.

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Load and manage your environment variables easily with dotenv gem

March 17, 2019 / / 0 Comments

You will most probably need to have at least one particular case where you need to store configuration values for your Rails application. Saving these types of values in the environment is one of the principles of a twelve-factor app. It is thus recommended to use a separate file and use environment variables inside your code so that you do not have to change the same value in multiple places. This, however, is not something that you can do really easily unless you use something really helpful like dotenv.

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How to create a direct download link for Github project using DownGit

March 3, 2019 / / 0 Comments

Sometimes you may need to send someone a project and they may not have Git installed, so they may not be able to download a repository from the command line. One of the ways that they can download it is by going manually to the Github repository and pressing the Download button. Here is another way that can save up time to both those that have and those that do not have git installed.

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