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
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
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
The title speaks clearly, I let myself be dazzled by the reviews and comparisons on YouTube of the various vs Bose where they boasted extreme superiority, and following the mantra of all the articles that praised their qualities stating they are “the best headphones money can buy” I got them for 349€, and I regretted it. The … Continue reading Sony WH-1000XM3 review, top tier fame, trash at best
When it comes to self driving vehicles, the rightful critics that usually are brought up against this technology is that it cannot account for unpredictable events, like people not respecting road rules, not much is usually said about the flip side of the coin where the driver himself is not respecting said rules, and where … Continue reading Computer says no, or how a brake sensor could have saved me from a trip to the hospital
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
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/
What “Absolute” means Let’s start with a foreword on the main term of the subject, because as many things CSS names can be misleading in many ways. So first thing doesn’t mean “absolute” in the natural language way, it’s not like an element with this property stops being tied to anything at all, rather we … Continue reading Absolute but not empty, CSS rendering bug in legacy Android and how to fix
The web has revolutionized most aspects of our daily life in the private sector, the speed and ease that today’s big platforms provide for exchanging information to send messages and process purchases are proof of how these systems have made great strides in the last 20 years, unfortunately the same cannot be said for the … Continue reading #HACKDEV17 project SPID smart button
GlassDoor has certified already that Expedia is one of the best places to work, now it’s officially also one of the best places to party. I didn’t fully grasp the meaning of the phrase “Work Hard Play Hard” till I participated to the epic company party in Budapest in June, three days of conferences, activities and parties … Continue reading Work Hard Play Hard
