I just came across a nifty UI thing when printing in Word 365.
When the printing dialog comes up and you select all pages you get this nice description of Print all Pages:
Not sure if this is really necessary, but it made me smile.
Ever wondered what colors a certain company uses for their brans? Apparently there is a web-based tool for everything. Consequently, there is BrandColors.
One of the “killer features” indeed is the fact, that you can view and copy the HEX color codes by simply clicking the colors.
Link: https://brandcolors.net/
While I went into mechanical keyboards recently, I was looking for alternative keycaps for my GK64.
Beside nice mechanical keyboards, WASD sells plenty of different custom keycap sets for your mechanical keyboard such as this homage to Portal:
For now, I can’t decide which one I like the most…
Link: https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/products/make/keycaps.html
Sometimes you wish there is a better user interface for Git… And sometimes wishes become true.
Fork, a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows…
Fork ist an awesome project, available for free for Windows and Mac.
Link: https://fork.dev/
With some delay, episode 12 of our podcast has made its way out of the building…
Link: https://podcast.hack-the-planet.tv/2019/11/19/episode-12/
Just in case you like modding your environment as I do, you might end up as well in a situation where you SSH into a remote server or using WSL requiring Powerline Fonts. And just in case, if you are wondering what Powerline is? Here you go:
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
The problem arises if your host system is Windows and you are using SSH and WSL a lot as I do.
Stanley Meng provides a condensed instruction set on how to get Powerline fonts on your Windows system up and running.
Once you installed the fonts, you can select them e.g. for WSL:
Update (2019-11-18)
While I was looking for the new Cascadia Code font providing Powerline glyphs, I was pointed to Delugia, which in fact is Cascadia Code extended with Powerline glyphs.
Powerline: https://github.com/powerline/powerline
Powerline on Windows: https://medium.com/@slmeng/how-to-install-powerline-fonts-in-windows-b2eedecace58
Bash on Ubuntu on WSL: https://medium.com/@jrcharney/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-the-almost-complete-set-up-1dd3cb89b794
Powerline Fonts: https://github.com/powerline/fonts
Delugia Font: https://github.com/adam7/delugia-code/releases
When trying to rung Ubunto Server on a Raspberry 4 with 4 GB RAM, you might end up with the same problem as me: USB is not working at all.
The cause is a kernel bug affecting 4 GB version of the Raspberry 4 Model B only. 1 and 2 GB versions are working quite fine.
The issue has been identified and it’s been found to be a kernel bug with a solution in the works that being tested. In the meantime, you can access to your Raspberry Pi 4 4GB USB ports by limiting the memory to 3GB in /boot/firmware/usercfg.txt […]
To limit the available RAM to 3 GB just add
total_mem=3072to the usercfg.txt.
In our podcast, we have recently talked about Enpass, beeing “the” alternative for 1Password. Why? Because of their “Buy it, have it, use it!” policy. Even the drawback of buying the app for three platforms was absolutely acceptable.
While I still had one blog article in my queue, I moved my passwords and secrets step by step from 1Password to Enpass. While there is no decent migration path, I had to di this password by password. 250 times. Roughly.
Again, it is a one time purchase. This is good. I would be happy to pay upgrade fees from time to time.
Today (13th of November), Enpass announced on their blog their plans to switch to a subscription model as well. And here another great app goes down the drain.
I am not against subscriptions, I pay for an XBOX live subscription, Netflix subscription and even for a Microsoft Office 365 subscription. I pay for a Todoist subscription as well. So, why would I not be willing to pay a subscription for an offline password manager software app? As we talked about in the podcast, I do not expect that many features or even maintenance for the app. It’s working. There might be some bugfixes as well. But I do not expect any regularly added features that would justify a subscription (for me).
I think we will talk about this in one of our next podcast episodes as well. So stay tuned.
What principles to follow when building modern applications? Twelve Factors Apps is a collection of best-practices.
In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that.
In a nutshell, it covers the following aspects:
I. Codebase
One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys
II. Dependencies
Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies
III. Config
Store config in the environment
IV. Backing services
Treat backing services as attached resources
V. Build, release, run
Strictly separate build and run stages
VI. Processes
Execute the app as one or more stateless processes
VII. Port binding
Export services via port binding
VIII. Concurrency
Scale out via the process model
IX. Disposability
Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown
X. Dev/prod parity
Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible
XI. Logs
Treat logs as event streams
XII. Admin processes
Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes
Link: https://12factor.net/
I am using Apple MacBooks and macOS since 2010y I have been pleased all almost all the time.
However, I have never encountered something like “Your system has run out of application memory”, I think. Until I upgraded to macOS Catalina 10.15.1
I run a machine with 8GB of RAM. I wonder where the OS consumes 7.5 GB of RAM though.
Something worth a “screenshot” to remember…