The terminal can be intimidating if you’re not familiar with it. Typing in commands doesn’t necessarily bring the same convenience as editing text in a word-processing software. Using your arrow keys to clear a mistyped word or backspacing to clear up your mistyped command can become very tedious very quickly…

Rule your Apple Watch and not the other way around — When the Apple Watch first came out in 2015, it ushered in a new age of smart wearables. Nowadays, the Apple Watch is an excellent fitness tracker and provides many health tracking features like heart-rate monitoring, sleep and blood-oxygen-level tracking. It can make your lost iPhone ring very loudly if…

Easy access from the task bar to quickly enter or leave the dark side — Windows 10 and Windows 11 support both dark and light mode. This dark mode feature is a boon for our eyes — it reduces exposure to blue light at night which can help make reading in the evening more enjoyable. However, during daytime when there is ample natural light, light…

No need to press any physical buttons on your monitor — Having an external monitor as an addition to your laptop monitor is one of the main essential items in the new work-from-home situation. You can use your laptop in clamshell mode and have your external monitor function as your main driver. On the other hand, you can also have it…

Make sure each code commit is up to par and professional — When you’re working in a big codebase with many contributing developers, it can be difficult to make sure that all the code that is added conforms to a certain agreed standard. Coding standards can be defined as linters that identify stylistic and programming inconsistencies. Some companies and teams also include…

Updating your project dependencies shouldn’t be difficult — just automate it! — Every software project uses dependencies and libraries to deliver features so that you don’t have to write them yourselves. Think about cryptography for example. Why would you want to reinvent the wheel, by implementing your own AES-algorithms in JavaScript, when you can use the delivered knowledge of a group of…

Increase your productivity with these Markdown tips — Google announced in a blog post that Google Docs will support auto-detection of the Markdown syntax. Markdown is an easy markup language that is used to add formatting to texts. If you want to make some text bold in a traditional document editor like Google Docs or Microsoft Word, you’d…

Automate unit tests in a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions — This will be a continuation of my earlier article. You can continue to read to get to know the concepts of setting up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions. If you’d like to know more about setting up TypeScript with Jest, make sure to also read part 1. We have…

Winget to the rescue to install and update all your programs — We all know that it’s important to keep all applications on your computer up-to-date. There are many reasons for updating your applications on a regular basis. Old software can contain security vulnerabilities, which can give hackers easy access to your computer. Developers often push out software updates to patch these…