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I like to set up certain things when I move to a new machine. ...

In the past few weeks, I became familiar with LitElement. I love the starter kit, but I hate to start up the manual build tasks. Nowadays, I work with VSCode a lot, so I tried to devise a convenient vendor locked-in solution for a change. ...

Working on a project often comes with many different scripts. When I switch between projects and languages sometimes I found it tiring having to figure out what buld tool I’m using an how to execute those scripts that are lying around. I’m looking for a unified solution. ...

This week I listened to the Art of Manliness podcast ep. #867 about journaling techniques that could change your life. It really resonated with me, and got me thinking about doing something about my bad habits and stepping on the path I’d like to walk. ...

As the new year approached, I wanted to write a Team Leader manifesto or a document to catch how it feels to be a team leader after one year. To summarize what I learned or to help new team leaders with what to expect. I found this Manager Readme format and wanted to try it out. ...

The 6th OITM has just finished for me. OITM is an IT championship in Hungary, sponsored by large tech companies held in November for 7 rounds. ...

Luckily this year had another transferred working day, and the tradition continues: our company gifted us with an opportunity to work on some fun projects in this Saturday working day. ...

I’ve moved my blog content build to hugo more than a year ago, but I still forget how to achieve some basic things in Hugo or where to find them in the docs. I’ve put together this cheatsheet to help me later on. I hope it’ll benefit you as well. ...

I like to write my projects in JavaScript. Since I don’t have time to juggle between all of them, it’s inevitable that they’re abandoned after a while and left as they were last touched for eternity. I bet this story feels familiar. ...

Nowadays it’s pretty common to have the Table Of Contents on the side, that follows the user’s scrolling. I’ve decided to see what it takes to add it to my Hugo blog. ...

I just started to get to know how ads work, I’m going to experiment with the different capabilities of Google AdSense and how it can be connected with Google Analytics. ...

A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s easier to explain the architecture and data flows with diagrams, than with lengthy paragraps. Developers like to stick to their text editors. Mermaid lets them create flowcharts, sequence diagrams, pie charts and many more diagrams in a declarative way. ...

I often need to present myself differently in git per project. When I work on a client’s own github, and they provide me an email address, it’s more professional, and most of the time a requirement, to use it to identify myself. Git, by default lets me specify configuration globally, or per repository. However, with a little trick I can set it on any abstraction level I need. ...

New Year, new transferred working day. Luckily we had the opportunity to do something fun in a Saturday instead of just extending our work week. So we had another Hackathon! 🎉 ...

I came across CSS Battle last year. I tried code golfs before, but this is a whole new level. ...

Have you ever been in a situation where you work for a few repositories over a prolonged time, and all of a sudden, you’re notified that you’ll no longer have access to these repos in a few weeks? ...

I came across situations in the past where I needed to modify a pipe just slightly. I immediately knew how to do it imperatively but could not develop a feasible chain of *nix utilities in a reasonable time. Here’s where my knowledge of a scripting language comes in handy. ...

Another year has passed, and the 5th OITM has finished. OITM is an IT championship in Hungary, sponsored by large tech companies. ...

Unless you were under a rock for the past couple of days, I assume you’ve heard about log4shell. The RCE exploit of the popular Java logging module log4j, that caused havoc all over the internet. I haven’t worked with Java for years, but I’m curious if my projects are vulnerable to this exploit. Let’s find out. ...

In Hungary, around the end of the year, we usually have some mandatory transferred workdays, when we have to work on Saturdays instead of the days around holidays. It’s not unusual for companies to let their workers spend their time in a more fun way, that’s what we did with an optional hackathon. ...

As I wrote in my last post, I’ve been working closely with Microsoft SQL server for a while now. Since then I’ve found some more tricks that made my life easier. ...

In the past couple of weeks I’ve started to work with Microsoft SQL Server. I have a pretty good founation of SQL from high school, but I’ve only used PostgreSQL so far in my carreer. I collect the snippets I found to be the most useful ones that helped me getting started. ...

I have access to a Google Calendar, that contains the absence of all my colleagues as full day events. I work with a mostly remote team, and sometimes it’s useful to know when will my teammates leave for vacation, even if they don’t tell me many days in advance. I wrote a simple script, to look through the events every monday and filter the ones I’m interested in, then send me an email report. ...

In the past few days I’ve been working with a code where I needed to see whether the service successfully sends mails through SMTP. I did not want to use or set up an actual mail server locally. As is turns out Python has a oneliner to solve this situation. ...

Recently I tried Github actions to deploy some of my static sites, and I’ve been quite happy with its capabilities. Let me share my configs for different kinds of setups. ...