A clipboard editor of all the things? How can it be useful in this day and age? I have tried to automate some of the most common things that I do on a regular basis. There are a bunch of tools that I use to do just that - these save keystrokes (AutoHotkey), automate regular tasks (e.g. take a screenshot, optimize size and upload to imgur), or connect my one useless social media account to the other (IFTTT). ...
I write quite a bit of Javascript on a day to day basis. But, I have a poor memory and keep forgetting things. Things like how I should be using a certain function the right way. This is where web applications like https://jscomplete.com/playground help. But it is not a pleasant experience to have blocks of incomplete code lying around in jscomplete, and keep executing few other parts of the program. I use the following tools to quickly know how to write a piece of functionality, or quickly test parts of code/components. ...
Create your own GraphQL APIs in 15 min flat using Postgres database and a bit of help from PostGraphile. No GraphQL server configuration needed. No frontend beginner developer ever said - “I want to play around with servers to understand their internals byheart before I venture forth with my beautiful Vue application”. If you are building on REST APIs, you have public services like JSONPlaceholder. These services provide quick access to much loved sample APIs for to-do, posts, users etc. ...
I had been a big user of SmushIt! Wordpress plugin in its heyday. After slowing down my sites too often, I switched to offline solutions. None of the tools I used have been as easy to use as FileOptimizer. Also: find this handy download link. FileOptimizer is a free, open-source tool to optimize files. It is in fact a wrapper for a bunch of open source tools that work great individually, but absolutely rock as a collection. ...
VS Code is the most useful thing discovered after sliced bread. The extension ecosystem kicks up the productivity in VS Code many notches higher. Here are a few shortcuts that you must include in your toolset to get into God-mode. 1. Prettier on Save: Quicker format Install prettier. Enable ‘Format on Save’ in Settings’. Rock and roll. I have never seen any tool save so much of my time. 2. Ctrl + D: Select Word, repeat selection and edit in one go Ctrl + D (repeat to select multiple instances). Multiple edits in one-go if you have selected multiple instances. ...
It has been quite sometime since I used vim or one of its flavours as my main editor for development. Is it time to go back to Vim? I am attracted by Vim’s productive usage of keyboard, but not so much about having to sacrifice VS Code or a few important shortcut keys in VSCode that Vim takes over. I used Vim on and off - but never as a fully-featured editor. For all its never-gets-old capabilities and the power of Vim scripts, I could never successfully scale the initial curve to fully appreciate its greatness. So my reasoning was to use Vim but stick to VSCode in the meantime so that I don’t lose all its features in one go - that is a system shock. ...
I had to create a mobile app for one of the data driven applications that I recently developed. Cordova has proven to be an excellent choice to reuse my existing code and make life easier for everyone. Nature of the web app - Enable users to create and track specialised electronic devices Track customers who buy these specialised devices and deploy them at their site Track usage of deployed devices Track issues and manage resolution process Enable users to create charts out of device usage The app is hybrid of technologies but the web app was mainly developed using Javascript in the backend. Vue and Vuetify turned out to be highly productive choices for the frontend. Component based development, readily available UI components, and data tables turned out to be life savers. ...
Most of my coding a few years back consisted of the following actions - Type slowly Type (a lot of) mistakes Use spaces and tabs to format. Get confused about loops and add ad-hoc spaces and tabs Curse my typing skills and the soul who invented spaces and tabs While formatting code was also becoming an interim ’thought provoker’, it was simply too much typing. Enter prettier. Although my typing is only half as bad, I now have far less stuff to worry about. ...
The first thing you want to do when you setup SMTP server is to test it. (yep, I consider myself smart). When the SMTP server setup was ‘once in a blue moon’ process, I could afford to just set up the client through the local Outlook or any other mail client, through Gmail and such. The task became a chore if you had to setup SMTP on all new applications, and had to be repeated twice every month. The fact that not all SMTP servers are the same and cannot be tamed by me in one go - just adds to the fun. ...
I have been a Powershell user since it was released in Windows 10. But, I had been switching between Powershell and Linux Bash - just so I can. Fish changed the world for me. It is unbelievable that I did not quite know Fish until late of Y2018. One of the positives of seeing a lot of developer videos is learning how other developers work. In one of those videos, the shell had some crazy colors and auto-completing like nobody’s business. I attributed that to Mac at that time, but some lazy browsing led me to the Fish shell. ...