Articles are single-page pieces. They have a clear scope and subject of discussion and try to go to the point.
They are different from series which are multi-part pieces exploring a topic in-depth. More akin to an adventure, they do not hesitatet to take many detours.
Alternative title: "Fix 'Microsoft Learn' examples for 2021".
I am following Microsoft simple introduction to building Windows 10 native applications (see their Windows Learn course). Unfortunately everything is always changing fast (and breaking everything) in the software world and their first XAML example does not build anymore.
After spending a few hours to fix my build I understand enough of the problem to write this short article.
Last Friday evening I was following and discussing the 2020 US elections, while I got a really dumb idea: is there a logic behind Trump's use of ALL CAPS when tweeting? And if yes, can people guess correctly what is actually in ALL CAPS when given a lowercase version?
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When working on web projects it is often useful and recommended to enable SSL for your development environment. For example if your project works with cookies, it is likely that the server sets the Secure
attribute, ensuring that they only sent to the server over HTTPS. But even without cookies it's a good idea to try to minimize differences between your development and production environments. Fortunately, using Docker that can be done done easily in just a few steps.
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When I start to use a programming language I always have the following questions:
Some languages such as Go come with simple answers to these questions: go build ./...
, go test ./...
, go get <my module>
, install the official Go extension for your editor. Done. But of course in the case of C++, things are ... different 🙃.
A few days ago we released a new version of HabitCat (v1.9.1) taking in account feedbacks we received from our users:
When reading Svelte 3 documentation of the {#each}
keyword, it isn't clear how to correctly handle the case where the variable we want to iterate on is null
or undefined
.
A common use case is listing the result of an object of type Promise<MyItem[]>
. We could imagine for example that this promise represents the result of an HTTP request. We would first initialized the promise to null
as a way to communicate that we didn't fetch any result yet.
About a month ago we released HabitCat, a simple mobile application to track and develop new habits. We are now learning how to market it, something neither me nor my partner have any experience doing! So far we got a few downloads without doing any form of advertising (other than creating a Twitter account), though that's of course really limited and is mostly from our friends, family, and acquaintance.
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Since I switched to Windows last year I'm using Microsoft's Powershell as my main shell environment (on my personal laptop). At first I didn't really look into Powershell's feature until around half a year ago when I found the motivation to work on a nicer prompt and spent some time migrating my ZSH profile to Powershell. I ended up creating a different profile that suits my needs, and that I had lot of fun building.
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Note This article is a part of a series of tutorials "Creating an Electron application with Svelte 3 and TypeScript". ...
Note This article is a part of a series of tutorials "Creating an Electron application with Svelte 3 and TypeScript". ...
Note This article is a part of a series of tutorials "Creating an Electron application with Svelte 3 and TypeScript". ...
TL;DR
I have again an active Apple Developer Membership, thus Disk Info is back on the Mac App Store.
Sources: https://github.com/dgellow/DiskInfo
An short explanation and a debugging session.
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A weird Apple ID picture, and thoughts on consistency.
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Small update to follow-up the official HabitCat public release. The app is now also available on iOS, worldwide and for free 😁.
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I had a very cool surprise today while checking my GitHub profile. Some projects I contributed to have been selected to included to be part of the Arctic Code Vault project, and I am officially an Arctic Code Vault Contributor!
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Update 20/07/2020
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A few days ago Youtube's algorithm had a small surprise for me. I had decided to do a simple logo in 3D using Blender for a side project, and somehow the suggestion algorithm picked that fact and decided to list videos of people documenting their progress creatin 3D content. Such as this really cool progress report from Hendy August:
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I decided to organize my thoughts, ideas, and projects a bit, they are currently spread around GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, and multiple computers and (physical) notebooks. As part of this move I'm creating this website and blog that will be available at a domain I control: sam.elborai.me.