Alternatives to Google Url Shortener

About a year ago, Google announced they would be shutting down their URL shortener service March 30, 2019. Goo.gl has been around since 2009. This is unfortunate because so many people rely on goo.gl for creating...

Best Smart Home Camera

Most people are probably familiar with Nest cameras or Ring cameras . These are great but cost over $200 and require a subscription. Recently I came across a company called Wyze that makes a smart home camera that is...

Firefox Allow Self Signed Certificate

Firefox is no longer accepting my self signed SSL certificate on .dev domains, which I use for local development. I started seeing this error message: MOZILLAPKIXERRORSELFSIGNED_CERT . To get around this error, you...

How to Stop Developer Tools Prompting For Password

After updating to macOS Mojave, I started getting a prompt for a user name and password everytime I debugged golang in GoLand. This was frustrating but I was able to stop it from prompting by running this command in...

VMware Fusion Ctrl Click Issues

The default configuration for running windows inside of VMware Fusion on a mac is to have ctrl + left click act as a right click . This can cause issues when trying to select multiple files etc. Fortunately, this...

How to Mass Unfollow on Twitter

Have you ever wanted to remove some of your followers on twitter? Twitter does not provide a native way to do this, but you can automate it in your browsers developer console. Steps: Using Chrome , login to your...

Debugging Go Error

After a recent upgrade to macOS Mojave, my machine was not able to debug in GoLand due to the error below: To fix this you have to install xcode -select , a command-line utility on macOS: Type in the command below...

How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive

When zipping a folder using the command line in macOS, you may have noticed certain files are include such as DSStore and MACOSX are included . With a few command arguments, these files can be filtered out. Exclude...

Seth’s First, ten

Seth’s post titled First, ten from back in 2009 is still relevant today. If you are building a product, finding your first ten users can be challenging but they are the first step to 100 then a 1,000 and so on. Plan...

Laravel, Cloudflare and Trusted Proxies

When using Cloudflare to manage your site, you may notice that if you check the ip address of the request, it will be an ip address from Cloudflare. This is happening because Cloudflare is proxying the request to...