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How to quickly take screenshots on your Mac

March 31, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 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.

Load and manage your environment variables easily with dotenv gem

March 17, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 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.

How to view the actual time at multiple timezones at the same time in your Mac

March 10, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

With the option to work from home, many companies already have team members that are distributed in different countries, which may also have different timezones. This can make it challenging to keep track of the time, so here is a free tool can help you with that.

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

March 3, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 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.

Reduce the amount of time you waste online using Nudge

February 24, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

I believe that we are even not aware of our habits online. We are not aware of how much time we spend on social media and many other sites, which for a lot of us may simply be a waste of our time. We may have become so habitual that we simply open these sites without even reconsidering that decision at all. It has become as if we are obliged to do so. Here comes a really cool Chrome plugin that I have been using for the past few weeks and I am really content with it.

How to activate dark theme in Chrome dev tools

February 17, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

I recently learned that there is a dark theme even in the dev tools of Chrome. It may not be that much of a big thing that you may need to use, but it can be something that you may have not known until now and that you may want to use.

Reduce the amount of time you waste online using HabitLab

February 10, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

One of the easiest ways that we can waste our time on is by browsing aimlessly without having defined intentions. Our habits determine are the behaviors that we are doing most of the time and taking the time to build better habits will most likely lead to better lives. This includes building better habits online. A Chrome extension from Stanford is to help us with that.

Record your screen and share the link of the recording in seconds using Loom

February 3, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

There are times when you need to want to share a particular task with someone else. You want to demonstrate to a client how you are able to perform a particular feature, or you want to share it with a colleague and keep a record of it so that you can refer back to it at a later point in time.

Beat procrastination of writing using “The Most Dangerous Writing App”

January 27, 2019 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

I have published more than 270 articles in this blog now and I still have difficulties getting started, despite the fact that I may have a particular topic that I want to write about, or that I have already made a decision to start writing. I just find other things that I could be spending my time on and this makes me procrastinate and delay starting. However, once I get started, I am more likely to follow through and finish writing the article, as I have gained some momentum and want to go further and finish it. A friend of mine has informed me about a tool that I have used to get started for writing a few articles that I have already published here called TheMostDangerousWritingApp.

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