Category: How To - Page 10
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How to Show Hidden File on a Mac
In the past, the only way I knew how to show hidden files on a mac was to run a terminal command which I had the commands show and hide aliased to. This works great but is not the easiest command to remember and you...
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How to Unshorten Short Urls
Several months ago I created a site called LinkUnshorten with the goal to guard people against short links from sites like goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl etc. Url shorteners are great but they do have the risk of...
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Speed Up Key Presses (macOS)
A recent episode of Syntax , the podcast about web development from Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski , a tip was mentioned on speeding up key presses on macOS. I have always been annoyed at how slow the cursor moves when...
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Chrome Extension Keyboard Shortcuts
Wanted to share a quick tip on using keyboard shortcuts to activate chrome extensions. Up until now it never occurred to me to use a keyboard shortcut to activate an extension, but thanks to a user of my weather...
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Backup Multiple Laravel Sites
If you’re like me and use Laravel Forge to host multiple websites on a single Digital Ocean server, then you may have run into the issue where you need to backup all the sites on your server. You could run Spatie...
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Text Replacement iOS
Wanted to share a quick tip that I use every day on my iPhone. If there is a sentence or phrase you type often, you should turn this into a text replacement. For example, I use @@ which is replaced with my email...
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Nginx Split Test A/B
Have you ever wanted to split test multiple pages on your website? You could use a WordPress plugin called Simple Page Tester but you are limited to testing two urls at a time. After some searching, I came across a...
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Side Project Tech Stack
I want to start this post by saying this is my preference on the frameworks and technologies that I use for most of my apps. Depending on your experience and goals you should experiment to see what works for you. For...
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Copy SSH key to Clipboard
Copying my ssh key to my clipboard is always something I have to google. It’s different depending on operating system and depends on what you have installed. This is a short guide on how to copy your ssh key to the...
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Wireless Temperature Sensor
My goal of this project was to track the temperature in different rooms in my house using multiple temperature sensors to send the data back to a raspberry pi and have the data stored historically so I could display...
