Software engineering and personal development
If you had no time or interest to watch a long YouTube video but were only interested in seeing a short portion of it, where a particular word is mentioned, Invideo can help you. It is a light extension that once is installed, it is shown on the video page, on the right side of the video that you are currently watching. There you can type any search term that you want to find out in the video transcript and then hopefully get that same match inside it.
There are many Chrome extensions that give you the ability to block certain sites from not visiting, including having a fixed number of minutes, or during a certain period of time. However, until today, I did not see any extension that allowed you to hide results from certain pages, so that you are not going to see anything even on your Google searches from that particular domain.
I have already written about a really cool option that you can use to capture screenshots in Google Chrome without using any third party extensions. If you want to level it up and have a tool that allows you to not only capture or record a particular portion of your screen, but also edit it, then AwesomeScreenshot is a good alternative.
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I recently learned a really nice tip on how to quickly find out the time in your local timezone and you do not need any plugin or perform several steps to reach the answer.
I was recently using ActiveAdmin and came up to a particular case when the index page for a particular resource was loading really slow. After trying to search up and down, trying to figure out what was the issue, I finally found that the issue was with a filter.
I have previously written about a really great Ruby gem called RailsAdmin which allows you to quickly prepare admin dashboards from your models. However, it comes with a disadvantage when you are dealing with large files. Let’s say that you want to export a large file from your RailsAdmin, like having 100 000 rows. This export will take a while and if you are using Heroku, chances are that you will actually have a timeout. Luckily, here comes ActiveAdmin.
It is hard to think about a project where you do not have dates and timestamps involved in it. You may need to find the day when a user has performed a particular action, or when an event has occurred and many other cases. TimeDifference is a really helpful gem that makes it really easy to calculate the difference between two time periods. It allows you to calculate the difference in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.
A couple of weeks ago I learned a really great shortcut for Chrome that I really enjoy using. It is about jumping between tabs by only using my keyboard. Yes, I knew how to switch to certain tabs using Cmd + a number, like Cmd + 3, to switch to the third tab, but I usually have a lot of tabs open and there are no sufficient single digit integers that I can use to switch to those tabs. Aside from that, I am also not sure about the number, so I needed to learn this new shortcut. At least, I know that I needed, as I have found it very helpful, and I hope that you will find it helpful too.
There can be cases when you want to be able to mute a certain tab, as you are not interested in hearing any sound from it. You may simply be interested in reading a paragraph and do not want to get bothered about the sound of the autoplay videos, or ads that are part in that page.
We spend so much time on our devices. Probably the majority of the time that we are awake and get so much immersed into using them such that we may forget to blink. I recently found an app called Pomy which is like a Pomodoro for our eye health.
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