Your computer runs tons of processes in the background, and pulling a plug out of a socket when it is in the middle of something is not a good idea. Doing that to your running service is also pretty risky, but this is precisely what happens when you terminate your running server via ⌃ + c (that sends a SIGINT...

I had a quick pair programming session with one of my colleagues. Can you imagine that Claude Code doesn’t need to be your only coding buddy? The validation rules needed a little tweak, so here is the piece of code I typed, and below is the version suggested by my friend. validation.Field(&r.ScheduledAt,...

Howdy y’all, I hope your October was not as hectic as mine. Mine was ridiculous! It’s been a super hardworking year overall, and I’m looking forward to a trip with my family at the end of the year. We are going to spend December in Sri Lanka, so if you have any tips and recommendations, ping me on Mastodon, Bluesky,...

Vim is a superb tool for repeating changes, and there is even a whole chapter in the user manual about repeating commands. Before we discuss macros, you should master the . dot command first. It repeats the previous change, and no matter how trivial that sounds, this is the command I use a zillion times a day. Your...

There is a lot of chatter about CSS resets in the web sphere recently. For the first time in years, I recently looked into the stylesheet of this very website and decided to modernise a few bits. As part of this, I looked into some resets carefully crafted by others, and wanted to share my thoughts, things I liked,...

I use incremental selections in Neovim all the time. This is where I tap, tap, tap, and on every single tap, the selection expands starting from the cursor position and climbs up by the node or the whole scope. This feature uses Tree-sitter under the hood, so it respects the grammar of the programming language. One...

Holly molly, September was hectic, mostly good and definitely memorable. Family came over for a visit from Poland, we got married, we travelled to northern Italy, and the most recent meetup I organised was a huge success. It was intense and I’m ready for a chill and quiet October. On the web sphere, September was...

In no particular order, following no particular schedule. Just a few things that I recently liked and disliked. Let’s go! Liked We shot a YouTube video about film formats on 35mm film. Incredible production, all shot on analogue film. This 22-minutes video must have been silly expensive! I remember buying films for...

I’m a huge fan of ZSA. Their Voyager keyboard changed the way how I work and massively increased my typing speed, accuracy and comfort. I published my thoughts about it in the “A month with the ZSA Voyager split keyboard” some time ago. ZSA is a bunch of hard-working folks who genuinely care, which is a rare thing...

I’m experiencing a little writing crisis. I don’t publish much nowadays, other than keeping the “Top Picks” series on a prompt schedule and some occasional short-form articles to release some infrequent bursts of creativity. It is not the first time it’s happening to me, and I’m certain that I’ll get back to regular...

How is your summer season going, folks? Recently I have been busy at work, but as part of that, I made huge progress in learning Go. Writing Go code is a pure joy, and I really regret that I have never dedicated myself to it before. It seems to be a perfect weapon for a web developer. It is a great language for...

The undo and redo operations are built into most apps where you can edit something. They are so basic that even non tech-savvy users know about them. Hit the ⌘+z to undo or ⌘+⇧+z to redo (or the equivalent on your operating system). Touch interfaces usually use iconography that does the same job. Undo and redo...