Planet Mozilla
Several people at React Conf asked me for advice on becoming a better programmer. For some reason, people see me as a pretty advanced programmer worth listening to. I thought it would be worthwhile to write down my "mental model" for how I have…
20 March 2017Planet Mozilla
I have been leading a team of data engineers for over a year and I feel like I have a much better idea of what leadership entails since the beginning of my journey. Here is a list of things I learned so far: Have a vision As a leader, you are supposed to…
20 March 2017Planet GNOME
At work I use Linux, but my personal laptop is a Mac (due to my previous job developing for macOS). A few months ago, I decided I want to be able to do some work from home without carrying my work laptop home every day. I considered using a VM, but I don’t…
15 March 2017Planet Mozilla
This is an unashamed plug for Remy Sharp’s terminal training course command line for non–techies. Go over there and have a look at what he’s lined up for a very affordable price. In a series of videos he explains all the ins and outs of the terminal and…
14 March 2017Hacker News
UnCSS is a tool that removes unused CSS from your stylesheets. It works across multiple files and supports Javascript-injected CSS. The process by which UnCSS removes the unused rules is as follows: The HTML files are loaded by jsdom and JavaScript is…
9 March 2017Planet Debian
7 March 2017Hacker News
29 January 2017Apple World Today
Synology has released Surveillance Station 8.0, an update of the smart surveillance system for macOS and Windows. It offers flexible deployment and a smoother live view experience, according to Jonathan Wang, product manager at Synology.
18 January 2017Hacker News
Steps I take when setting up a VPN server on Digital Ocean ls -al ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C [email protected] Public key is now located in /home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Private key is now located in /home/demo/.ssh/id_rsa. While creating…
8 January 2017Macworld
Video editing and motion graphics software are powerful tools for content creators, but for many professionals the “secret sauce” to their creativity isn’t the host software, but rather the arsenal of third-party plugins added to the mix. But finding the…
26 December 2016