Blog

Book review: Own Your Tech Career (15 Mar 2022)
TIL: Backing up a running Raspberry Pi remotely (8 Jan 2022)
Some things I (still) don't know (31 Dec 2021)
Book review: The Joy of JavaScript (30 Dec 2021)
TIL: Custom prefixes for GNU automake configure scripts using config.site (10 Jan 2021)
TIL: Angular: providedIn makes singleton services tree-shakeable (9 Jan 2021)
The power of hermetic builds (1 Nov 2020)
TIL: Show the AS number in traceroute (15 Jul 2020)
TIL: Leave only a specific directory in git history (14 Jul 2020)
TIL: Keep the Bazel server alive between Jenkins builds (21 Apr 2020)
TIL: Compare Bazel execlogs to find non-deterministic parts of the build (20 Apr 2020)
TIL: The Bazel ZIP tooling uses fixed timestamps for build reproducibility (28 Mar 2020)
TIL: Use $LINENO to get the current line number in a bash script (27 Aug 2019)
TIL: Angular calls ngOnInit only on components which have it build-time (26 Aug 2019)
TIL: Use the Omit helper type to drop properties from a type (25 Aug 2019)
TIL: Construct script-relative paths in bash (25 Mar 2019)
Achieving 100% MC/DC coverage (23 Mar 2019)
TIL: View the effective tsconfig of the TypeScript compiler (5 Jan 2019)
TIL: There is an "unknown" type in TypeScript (5 Jan 2019)
TIL: ssh-keygen can remove entries from known_hosts (4 Jan 2019)
TIL: There is a lookup type in TypeScript (3 Jan 2019)
TIL: Always import lodash with lodash/<fn name> (2 Jan 2019)
When semantic versioning is bad (16 Sep 2018)
TIL: See brew dependencies in a tree (10 Sep 2018)
TIL: document.body is not accessible from scripts in the head element (10 Sep 2018)
TIL: Use VisibleForTesting to mark methods used only by tests (7 Sep 2018)
TIL: There is a SourceMap HTTP header (7 Sep 2018)
TIL: Nest wildcards when matching file names (7 Sep 2018)
TIL: Automatically highlight all search matches in Firefox (7 Sep 2018)
TIL: Use the Clear-Site-Data HTTP header to clear browsing data (2 Sep 2018)
TIL: Match all files except specific ones in zsh (31 Aug 2018)
TIL: Match elements with no siblings using a CSS selector (30 Aug 2018)
TIL: Find the ratio between physical and device-independent pixels (30 Aug 2018)
TIL: Call a function during a browser's idle periods (30 Aug 2018)
TIL: Numeric Java streams provide summary statistics (29 Aug 2018)
TIL: See what depends on a formula in Homebrew (23 Mar 2018)
TIL: Ruby blocks can be curried (20 Mar 2018)
TIL: nginx has a macro-only queue implementation (20 Mar 2018)
TIL: nginx uses bitwise operations for HTTP method parsing (19 Mar 2018)
TIL: Programmatically get boot time on macOS (17 Mar 2018)
TIL: See the commands to be run by make (16 Mar 2018)
TIL: Allow only one version of a package in yarn (16 Mar 2018)
TIL: Speed up OS install USB creation by using unbuffered I/O on macOS (15 Mar 2018)
TIL: Show only major/minor/patch versions in bundle outdated (15 Mar 2018)
TIL: Find slowest RSpec tests (14 Mar 2018)
TIL: Find CRLF line endings with a regex (14 Mar 2018)
TIL: Object#try accepts blocks (13 Mar 2018)
TIL: Change ownership when copying files in Docker (3 Oct 2017)
TIL: View network interface stats on FreeBSD (22 Sep 2017)
TIL: Mirror a git repository (15 Sep 2017)
TIL: Some browsers replace the error pages if their length is below a certain threshold (24 Aug 2017)
TIL: Logout another macOS user from the console (19 Aug 2017)
TIL: Use an alternative separator for sed (18 Aug 2017)
TIL: Define focused specs in Jasmine (18 Aug 2017)
TIL: Navigate in the zsh directory stack (6 Feb 2017)
TIL: Create a .ruby-version file with RVM (24 Jan 2017)
TIL: Set operations in Haskell (11 Jan 2017)
TIL: Touching files without touch (9 Jan 2017)
TIL: Find or replace a substring with String#[]/String#[]= (17 Aug 2016)
TIL: Sort "human-readable" sizes in bash (16 Aug 2016)
TIL: Cancel requestAnimationFrame() (15 Aug 2016)
TIL: Get directory of current script in Python (11 Jun 2016)
TIL: Kill a process group in node (22 Feb 2016)
TIL: Mock require in Node (19 Feb 2016)
TIL: Destructing assignment in JavaScript (18 Feb 2016)
TIL: Locally ignore a file from git index (17 Feb 2016)
TIL: Find duplicate code with jscpd (16 Feb 2016)
TIL: Use a mock clock in Jasmine (15 Feb 2016)
TIL: Generate an UUID in bash (12 Feb 2016)
TIL: Catching signals in bash (12 Feb 2016)
TIL: Set time limit for a MongoDB query (10 Feb 2016)
TIL: Send terminal notifications on OS X (9 Feb 2016)
Increasing the number of shared port workers in HTCondor (28 Aug 2015)
Playing with Trello using jq (23 Jul 2015)
Today I learned: Do not create MongoDB replica sets with even number of nodes (20 Jul 2015)