Category Archives: WebTech

Switcheroo, bluetooth keyboard and mouse across Macs made easy

21/08/2022 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Companies providing a Macbook as work laptops do a great favor to themselves and the people receiving them for productivity, years of usage have made me really fond of Mac OS versus the amount of maintenance I was demanded by my Windows workstations making it almost a second job on its own. Still even though … Continue reading Switcheroo, bluetooth keyboard and mouse across Macs made easy →

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Your Alexa routine stopped working? It might be due to Announcements

08/05/2022 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Alexa’s routines, especially those scheduled on an hourly basis or on events such as sunrise and sunset, are very convenient, who doesn’t like them? The evening time arrives, your echo dots with joyful voice announces “Good evening, it’s close to sunset time, turning on the lights!” and the lights come on …? Or at least they … Continue reading Your Alexa routine stopped working? It might be due to Announcements →

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Tilde and backtick for dummies

29/04/2019 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Operative system Mac, keyboard layout italian, Tilde To navigate to user root from shell ⌥ + 5 = ~ Backtick To produce the gorgeous code snippets inline on Slack, but also on Bitbucket, and for template string in ES6 ⌥ + 9 = ` Never again you’ll have to google these characters names to copy-paste them when … Continue reading Tilde and backtick for dummies →

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Codemotion 2018 @ Rome

15/10/2018 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

The codemotion is back on the scene like every year, this time in Rome for the month of April, and to keep bench rather than new and flaming JavaScript frameworks (😅) are more and more news from the W3C built-in-the-browser that come adopted at an ever-increasing speed by our dear browser makers. https://rome2018.codemotionworld.com/ Part 1 … Continue reading Codemotion 2018 @ Rome →

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Command line string navigation cheat sheet

28/01/2018 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

Thanks to Clément Chastagnol for making a very useful cheatsheet for horizontally navigating a string in terminal, which you shall print and attach under your monitor, you can find it on his blog:

https://clementc.github.io/blog/2018/01/25/moving_cli/

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css-tricks : A Front End Developer is Aware

Link 24/02/2017 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

A non-exhaustive list of the many things, told and untold, that we tend to take for granted that make complex as interesting the work of a front-end developer.

A Front End Developer is Aware

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Free SSL certificate for HTTPS provider StartCom StartSSL distrusted by Mozilla and Google

31/01/2017 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

We are in a stormy period from the political point of view on a global level, and those who deal with technology can occasionally get the impression of being in a kind of virtuous bubble, a community of enthusiasts discussing in honesty and transparency in a general mood of trust, trust which is the basis of … Continue reading Free SSL certificate for HTTPS provider StartCom StartSSL distrusted by Mozilla and Google →

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Codemotion 2016 @ Milan

03/12/2016 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

In life one never stop learning, if we consider all the innovations that are coming up in these years for technology, it would take the lives of a cat to follow on everything. In this sense, technology conferences are a good way to explore new trends in the industry thanks to experts that wear the journalist hat, filtering the news … Continue reading Codemotion 2016 @ Milan →

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Mail app killing CPU and battery on Mac OSX

28/08/2016 Simone Rescio Leave a comment

This is a strange period in technology, while the world talks about going green, saving power by unplugging home devices while unused because that small LED light multiplied by millions of users costs lot of energy, it seems instead that hardware manufacturers, software developers, and IT companies more in general don’t give a fuck about any … Continue reading Mail app killing CPU and battery on Mac OSX →